How The Hell Did They Do That?

First tread for The Redemeer on KMC so here goes... 😉

Right after Mr Wint and Mr Kidd disposes of a good dentist with a well placed scorpion, his buddy arrives via helicopter and leaves with what he thinks is prize possession booty but is in fact a "bomba surprise". After taking off, Mr Wint and Mr Kidd watch gleefully as the 'copter explodes in mid-air...

And very, very impressively in my opinion and not like those obviously fake exploding matt painting ones during the film's oil rig climax. I've watched this sequence countless times and I've never ceased to ask myself...

How the hell did they do that? The film makers I mean, not Wint and Kidd. Same style as later but only better? A rigged 'copter suspended in mid-air? A very clever combination of both? Anyone know??? 🙁

...TR...

I should watch it again;

but my first guess would be blue-screen with the helicopter actually being a small model that DOES explode

Originally posted by yerssot
I should watch it again;

but my first guess would be blue-screen with the helicopter actually being a small model that DOES explode

Maybe, but it does look the business!!! ✅

...TR...

well, if it was from a good bond movie; I would probably know a bit more aboot it 😛

not to be cheeky but I was under the impression by my sight that it was a model helicopter

the explosion was quite pathetic like a somewhat firework...a real helicopter would have made much more of a wreckage and explosion than that did.

It may have been a model but it dosen't look like a blue/matte screen in front of Wint And Kidd.

hmm, funny, didn't post here after seeing it... but yeah, I agree with discos, it was blue screen and a model 😖

I thought it was well done.

yeah, but which movies do you like? that says enough 😉

Mini-copter. Just like a mini-tanker in TSWLM & a mini-hollowed out volano in YOLT. Amazing what they can do to make realism, eh?

the mini-copter did actually work 😱

yep i know, i didnt even noticed they used a blue screen, i thought they actually flew a mini-model-copter into the sky with an explosive in it 😕

you notice bluescreen most of the time though

i see 😕

Discos - takes his word it

and green screen 😐

ok now i am totally in the dark....i know nowt about SFI/SFX whatnot

it's blue screen but than with green 😉

right...

its just like coming home on a friday night and doing all your homework, so you're satuday night is just free to party

Discos - ....no i like the way i said it better

something like that

😛