Step By Step: Tropic Thunder

Published Monday, September 01, 2008

“Comic timing” is a phrase usually associated with actor pratfalls rather than the effect of a CG helicopter crashing to the ground. But for the DreamWorks/Paramount comedy Tropic Thunder, actor-director Ben Stiller wanted the visual effects to unfold with a rhythm that synced with the antics of his cast. In one key action scene, a chopper is hit by a mortar and then explodes in a field, endangering the character played by Robert Downey, Jr. Stiller needed the CG aircraft to look real in order to sell a sense of peril, but he wanted its ...

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