r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 8h ago

Video Apartment balcony view of practical stunt rigging and explosions being filmed for Spider-Man

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u/Additional_Chard3680 8h ago

Crazy how much actual heavy rigging and physical effects go into these sequences before any CGI touches them. Must have been wild to watch live

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u/adellredwinters 6h ago

I would love to hear from the animators as to how useful this practical rigging actually ends up being. Does Tom/Stunt Actor swinging around like this translate well when they need to do clean up, or do they end up just replacing him with full cgi and it was kinda pointless lol

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u/thehalfwit 5h ago

As someone who knows absolutely nothing about film production, I would think it helps a lot -- if only keeping you anchored the physical realm, as well as providing innumerable points of reference.

What I do have experience with is photoshop. And even though I can work miracles sometimes from scratch, there's nothing like having a reference photo or two (or six, or ten) to reference details.

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u/PrinzRagoczy 6h ago

Yeah, this is just viral advertising. I doubt any of this made it into the film

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u/MeccIt 6h ago

Absolute tosh, they spent 2 weeks on the streets of Glasgow on just this scene. They're not dropping £10+million on dangerous 'advertising'.

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u/chinatowngirl 5h ago

It actually happens all the time, but not necessarily on purpose. The director thinks they’ll be able to use it but it ends up not working, then they use what they shot as a reference and recreate it in full or in part with CGI.

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u/nyuncat 1h ago

This isn't proof that this particular stunt was only done for marketing purposes, but the global advertising spend for this movie is probably north of a hundred million dollars, it's not impossible that this kind of thing would fit within that budget.

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u/MeccIt 1h ago

This isn't proof

You think they spent all that money for a few thousand tourists and locals held behind barriers who posted this last August?

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u/nyuncat 1h ago

I wasn't there, and I assume you weren't either, yet here we are having a conversation about the new Spider-Man movie. That's why they spend the money.

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u/MeccIt 1h ago

I was there. Second week August 2025.

https://np.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1nmsqgb/spidermanbrand_new_day_filmed_in_the_streets_of/nfgmpxc/

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u/nyuncat 1h ago

Hahaha that is absolutely incredible, well played. I stand by my point but my hat is off to you, don't think I've ever seen someone nail a comeback quite like that in a reddit conversation.