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and it was filled with plaster.
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So it gave it a sense of explosion as it collapsed.
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And all of the CG wasps,
which are wonderfully oversized,

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were created by the same team
that did the scorpion earlier on.

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This set is actually in the backlot at Pinewood,
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dressed with greens, ferns, et cetera.
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And the area that looks like a garage
that he's working in

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is a rebuilt section of the really big refrigerator,
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which you'll see in the next reel.
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So it wasn't the monstrous budget
of some action-adventure pictures

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so we had to reuse bits of set.
Again, John Beard, very clever.

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Arguably the best acting moment in the film
for these kids.

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Brady slips up and makes fun
of his friend's stutter.

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And it really stops your heart.
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And then Soren stands up to him.
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Alan doesn't apologise, and we're off.
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Very nice moment in the middle of all this action.
Get a load of that wasp on his face.

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Peter King, who did the makeup,
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has book-end Academy Awards
from Lord Of The Rings.

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He created those great welts
that are on Mullion's face.

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This poor guy, in the Seychelles,
dressed in black from head to toe,

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with armour in 120-degree heat.
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And didn't complain, God bless him.
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A lot of these shots are totally combs.
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Combinations of green screen,
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in which the kids were on wires on this hoversled,
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plate shots from the Seychelles that we sped up,

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