I saw it in Belfast about a month ago, and it was with all the heads of the departments, and they put this reel together of highlights of Season 4. Gower: The first time we'd all seen it cut together, everybody winced-you just got the perfect reaction. They had shot a dummy with a bunch of just meat where the face was, but it was too mangled to the point where you questioned what you were seeing rather than understanding it right away. We added the brain matter off to one side and then added his face features, although mangled, we added them back over. So immediately you could clock what part was the face, because it was quite-it was disgusting, what we did on the day.īauer: We completely replaced his head and the blood around his head-you see the blood spreading out. And then the effects team came in and added these lovely little shapes-bits of jaw, bits of nose, bits of skull, I mean really grotesque. Gower: It was a huge sequence from a practical effects sense. It's like two or three quick cuts-the one with Peter Dinklage in the background, and then the top shot with the camera rising up as the Mountain rolls off of him and you see what happened. So from the nose down it's the actor, and from the nose up it's the prosthetic.īauer: The squish actually was in camera. If you really watch the sequence, it's some really quick and clever cutting and a couple of shots where we split the actor, Pedro's, face. We had made several separate dentures to be thrown across the floor, which Alex Graves, the director himself, actually threw across the floor when they filmed it.īauer: The final shot, where we really see his destroyed face, was something that we did a number of variations on, and it really came down to getting his bottom jaw out of alignment with the rest of his skull, which was just a Photoshop treatment, and then I did it for real in 3-D. Our first involvement with the scene would be when Oberyn trips over and the Mountain grabs him and punches his teeth out. Gower: We actually had several elements, as far as the gag went. And then you cover it in blood and it just gives you lots of lovely little shapes. We made lots of strips of latex, strips of silicone, all kinds of different things to look like brains. We made blocks of what we call “nurnies,” which are basically silicone to look like brain matter and what have you. Theatrical blood mostly contains water, food coloring, syrup, sugar-and by mixing that in with some of these polyurethane foams. Gower: For Oberyn's head we used various foams. And if we did it prior to traveling, the weight and the disturbance of traveling would split the heads, basically. But the interior of them we had to prep when we got to Croatia, because we had to fill them with blood bags and various other things. We could only complete the heads to a certain point-so they were fully artworked, they were painted and they had hair on them and they had eyebrows and they had stubble. And that was a terrifying 24 hours while those were shipping out there. Gower: We had to be very careful with the heads when transporting them, because they were built in London and shipped out to Croatia. People driving by who didn't know what was going on kept slowing down because they thought something really horrible had happened. I was at his facility in London, and the whole parking lot was covered in fake blood.
SQUISH VS CRUSH SKIN
And we created a silicone rubber skin on the head, which is breakable, and it had internal gore, so it had a shell inside and it had lots of brains and we put blood tubing and all kinds of things inside it.īauer: You'll be amazed at how much testing went into it. And we did another of the head, which had him sort of grimacing and some of his teeth missing. Gower: We took a mold of his head and we created a sculpture of his head with his eyes caved in, so the Mountain would be crushing his eyes in.
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