Benjamin Button TED Talk
Today we watched a video about the special technology in the film, Benjamin Button and how people in the film industry created the old Benjamin, who was 87 in the movie. But the lead actor who played the role of Benjamin Button was Brad Pitt, 40's. In addition to put some make ups on his face, they had to follow a few scientific methods to fill the age gap between the old character, Benjamin Button, and the young actor Brad Pitt. To solve the problem, they applied some computer technology. They first had to start shot the face of Brad Pitt and recorded all kinds of the facial movement and emotional expressions he can make in front of the camera. Then they transfered the pictures and files in a computer to make the pictures look much order. Besides, they had to do a bunch of stuff like lighting and act the body of Benjamin. In fact, the Benjamin character was composed by different people. In order to make the character look exactly like a old man, they used different people for different parts of body. It's a really hard and super project. They spent a lot of time figuring out how to make Brad Pitt look like 80's. I think this is such a real success for the film industry and special technology during this days.
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