Everybody loves a good look behind the scenes. Sure, some people might insist that seeing how a movie like Spider-Man: No Way Home is made might “ruin the magic” or something like that. But even then, many of those same people are often the first to gleefully binge a fun YouTube playlist showing off some of the sweet effects behind their favorite projects.
On that note, Spider-Man: No Way Home is effectively a mishmash of many people’s favorite movies all in one. So taking a look at the visual effects behind it is basically like watching a demo of the tech behind a good 8 movies all in one. Sure, that’s not really how movies, visual effects, or math work. But on the other hand, it’s really cool to watch, so the rule of cool dictates that the rest of that doesn’t matter. (That may also not be how the rule of cool works. But the rule of cool states that the rule of cool works however it likes. Probably.)
Sony Pictures just released a short reel showing off some of the behind-the-scenes action that took place during the production of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and it’s impressive seeing even small glimpses at what the filmmakers pulled off. Producers Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige led the video, praising the production for the incredibly popular product it ended up pulling off. They’re joined by co-producer Mitch Bell, as well as stars like Jamie Foxx (Electro), and the magical dual Benedict team of Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Wong (Wong) in the video, which appears to have taken footage and interviews from all throughout production.
The reel, which rather blatantly pulls double duty as an advertisement for the state of Georgia as a filming location, might go by pretty quickly for some people to notice some of the really top-notch tech bits. So slowing it down may be required. When one does so, they’ll no doubt notice a genuinely impressive assortment of practical effects, like a great number of smashed cars and the particularly intense fight scene featuring Spider-Man and his foe smashing each other through walls and floors in an apartment complex.
It’s interesting seeing this admittedly short insight from people like Spider-Man producer Pascal and Feige, displaying just how commonplace these huge set pieces actually are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, it’s one thing to fool audiences with top-notch greenscreen work like the airport scene in Captain America: Civil War, but it’s another entirely to include both practical and CG elements that are all so well done that viewers genuinely think the practical stuff is computer-generated and vise versa. That seems to be Marvel’s forte as of late.
It’s just one more reason Spider-Man: No Way Home has been dominating the box office since its premiere. Nostalgia definitely plays into some of that, of course. But if the movie was terrible, it definitely wouldn’t have earned the praise it’s been getting just through wistful reminiscing alone.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is now playing in theaters.
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