Thunderbirds

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Ron Cook's fabulous in this scene. Where
The Hood abuses him with his mind control.

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A perfect example of how one actor
can help another out.

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Cook selling the idea that The Hood
has incredible power over him.

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What's The Hood doing there? Another great add -
"put me down, this outfit is couture!"

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Now here's a sequence
that took some serious work.

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There's a combination of
slow-motion photography,

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gentlemen in rigs on sticks, on big poles,

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floated in front of the camera,
the poles were erased in postproduction.

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So each of these actors had to get fit
for what is essentially an armour plate

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and attached to a pole
and then shot in front of a green screen.

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Those individual elements were then cut into
the plates of the Thunderbird 5 set,

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and we could move the actors,
the Tracy brothers, around in the shot.

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In addition, Mark Nelmes,
who did this sequence,

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created floating bits of debris that would've been
residue from the explosion,

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we added the fire extinguisher,
which rolls toward us.

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The oxygen mask and its unit that it's connected to

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aren't entirely added in postproduction,

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Paxton had to mime putting the mask
over his son, John's, face.

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It was tedious shooting again,
planning and rehearsal, and patience.