“Everything is as big as we can build and, at the same time, Ridley has bigger ideas.”
Go behind the scenes of Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings to see how the massive world was created.
Exodus: Gods and Kings: From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Prometheus) comes the epic adventure “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” the story of one man’s daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton), setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
The film’s writing credits are: Screen Story by Bill Collage & Adam Cooper, Screenplay by Steven Zaillian.
Wait, this person wants the story of Moses to look realistic and then drops some ‘irony’ insult? Woah.
There’s absolutely no reason to berate and belittle people who get a kick out of CGI, but the fact is that the ‘realness’ of actual beings (the tactility of movement, not least) is impossible to render convincingly using a computer (having said that, I enjoyed Gravity, to take one of the examples mentd mentions, immensely). But, yes, Peter Jackson’s use of CGI is a travesty for the art form.
now watching: EXODUS: COMMENTS AND TROLLS
Mentd, you criticize those who support modern film…so what the hell are you doing on this website? I will go play a video game, thanks. As a matter of fact I just completed Alien: Isolation and it is the perfect follow up to one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, Alien. That’s right, the video game nerd loves the classics. Stop berating people who have accepted CGI into modern film and not stuck in the Jim Henson past. I am not blind, I am not stupid. I also said that picture most definitely is not “real looking”, I stated that it is a wonder what CGI can do. It deceives the mind, it takes a closet and turns it into a landscape. Stop berating people, you’re on the wrong site to be doing that on.
Paddy and Bryce – always enjoy my morning coffee with your comments 🙂
CGI looks just fine to me. Realism is not the goal – mythology is – and I must say Joel Edgarton’s Ramses is mythically hot.
GUSTAVO: The irony that you carry a Weyland Yutani logo yet support the travesty called modern film…
Interstellar is going to win visual effects especially when it gets a best picture nomination.
Who is this Mentd troll? How long will he last around here? Oh, Gosh, the mystery…
When I previously made my predictions for Visual Effects, I completely forgot Interstellar, and Into the Woods. After re-evaluating my predictions, they become:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Into the Woods
And to clarify…
Ridley Scott is my favorite director and I am looking forward to EXODUS: GODS & KINGS.
He is one of the few directors who handle CGI properly by doing as much as possible real,
building real sets and using real organic objects like people and animals, then just extending
things with CGI in the background… As it should be. Neil Blomkamp is another director who knows how to handle CGI.
But the idiot who made Gravity? Or Peter “ruins cinema with cartoon nonsense” Jackson?
I can’t wait for Star Wars to clean up – They’re using huge sets, real models… JUST WAIT.
bryce: So you’re a gun fearing liberal sheep?
Okay I get it now. Believe some more of what they sell. All you can do is throw insults & troll.
I sincerely hope you don’t own real firearms.
Also, I’m sure that second photo is not remotely finished yet.
bbryuce: They AREN’T going for realism?
Seriously? So you’re saying they WANT IT TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB?
There is nothing tangible with cgi. No weight. You don’t fear for cgi characters. You do with real stunt men.
Again – I point to the new MAD MAX and STAR WARS. I hope these 2 clear the box office and shut people like you up once and for all.
None of that crap looks real.
I don’t think that’s what the master is going for you philistine troll.
Steven – You’re blind dude. Go play some more video games and expect your movies only to look slightly better.
It is not amazing. People who are amazed just don’t understand computers. It is to be expected and boring.
And it doesn’t work. It’s not amazing at all. It’s just yet more tired 3D objects rendered by some dork in a dark room.
And the fact you use Gravity as an example… That movie was awful, I shut it off in the first 15 minutes.
I have a 3DTV and have real NASA videos shot in real 3D and I KNOW WHAT REAL OUTER SPACE LOOKS LIKE.
Gravity was pathetic, populous drivel.
I swear, I think the only reason people like this crap is because they’re programmed by marketing forces.
You’re just seeing what they tell you to see but the emperor really has no clothes.
If people weren’t fed up with this crap, they wouldn’t be starting to film stuff like the new MAD MAX with real stunts
and STAR WARS with real film… WHY DO YOU THINK THE TREND IS SWITCHING BACK TO REALITY?!?!
Because people can’t take it anymore. THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
Awful looking CGI should not be rewarded, are you blind?
None of that crap looks real. It looks like cartoons being danced in front of us.
Now you might like cartoons… But don’t lie to yourself and say they’re real.
When is the last time you actually SAW a real ape?
Because rendered cartoon animals do not look or move or sound or act like real animals.
The last Apes movie was directed so lazilly, even the animals in the zoo were cartoons.
They couldn’t even lift a finger to get real animals. Pathetic.
At least Ridley’s EXODUS has thousands of real extras, sets and animals.
(Even though it will probably be uneven because he has decided to use too much CGI as well.)
I hate that people today don’t even expect quality, they even refer to special f/x as “it has good CGI”…
Well… If an effect is working, you should not know it’s an effect.
All they do is model new 3D objects in the same, tired old virtual worlds and people eat it up.
It’s pathetic. Go watch ALIEN or John Carpenter’s THE THING or the transformation sequence in THE HOWLING…
THOSE are good f/x which are lit well, edited properly and directed by people who actually have skill.
We have gone backwards in quality, all we see today… ALL OF IT is damn CGI.
I mean at least even on practical f/x that didn’t quite work there was a variety!
The amount of techniques you can try is unlimited in reality. With CGI, no matter who did it, it all looks, moves and sounds the same.
And I’m really sick of the over animated sounds too – CGI monsters posing and roaring, exagerated sound…
t’s vomit inducing & why I don’t go to movies anymore.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
Alt. Edge of Tomorrow
Mentd, yes it is a marvel what CGI can do in general and for this film. The trailers have shown us that and so has this picture. I don’t care if the picture looks a bit blurry, they took 10 people, horses and shipping crates and made it into a gigantic kingdom. I’m sorry it doesn’t look like Gravity but giving life and scope to what looked like a small parking lot is fucking great. If you truly expect the final film too look like an “awful, blurry, obvious” shot then you don’t know Ridley Scott.
But everytime I start thinking or talking about Visual Effects, I always want to joke that Boyhood deserves the Oscar, because it wasn’t filmed in 12 years, but more like 9 months. What if that was true? That would be fantastic! 🙂
I feel like this could go on to win the Oscars for both Visual Effects and Production Design. But it’s going to be a really tough year to chose:
My predicted five for VFX:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
Alt. Edge of Tomorrow
As for Ridley Scott, I think Gladiator was a fine choice for Best Picture in 2000/01 and it was one of the best movies of 2000. I’d put it 3rd after Almost Famous and Traffic.
My top 5 Ridley Scott films:
1. Alien – 1979
2. Gladiator – 2000
3. Black Hawk Down – 2001
4. Blade Runner – 1982
5. American Gangster – 2007
A – This is not a new featurette.
B – It is not a marvel what CGI can do, it looks awful. Blurry, obvious lines where the CG starts and real ends…
If all you need to be a director is bugger ideas then I’m Ingmar fucking Bergman.
ahaha Paddy, sorry I have to fix mt typo at the expense of your excellent jab. But I’m sure everyone will still be able to figure out how I inspired you.
It’s just unbelievable what CG is capable of. It’s a marvel to look at those two pictures side by side.