We had a thread like this a few days ago and it was fun.
Post movie scenes with craptons of extras, shit on CGI, discuss the ye olden days of epic kino, whatever
a couple to get it started
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Epic movies with hueg numbers of extras
Joseph Hall
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Jaxon Moore
Is there a version of Scipio the Africano with english subs?
Liam Gutierrez
Brody Diaz
Julian Green
that facial hair deserves an award
John Perez
thanks senpai
Adam Garcia
now where do I download the movie?
Luis Smith
can't find anywhere, looks like the movie has been erased from history.
Joseph Nelson
one of the most kino scenes in general tbqpf
Brandon Hall
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Obligatory War and Peace
Dominic Stewart
Waterloo
John Morales
Does anything beat this in terms of extras?
David Reed
Doubt it, heard they used like 20,000 soviet soldiers as extras.
John Harris
the silent era had some massive set pieces
Benjamin Cook
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Is this enough?
Cooper Davis
Final costs were over £12 million (GBP) (equivalent to about U.S. $38.3 million in 1970), making Waterloo one of the most expensive movies ever made, for its time. Had the movie been filmed in the West, costs might have been as much as three times this. Mosfilm contributed more than £4 million of the costs, nearly 17,000 soldiers of the Soviet Army, including a full brigade of Soviet cavalry, and a host of engineers and labourers to prepare the battlefield in the rolling farmland outside Uzhhorod, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).
To recreate the battlefield authentically, the Soviets bulldozed away two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings. To create the mud, more than six miles of underground irrigation piping was specially laid. Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously – from ground level, from 100-foot towers, from a helicopter, and from an overhead railway built right across the location.
Kayden Wood
Actual filming was accomplished over 28 weeks, which included 16 days of delay (principally due to bad weather). Many of the battle scenes were filmed in the summer of 1969 in often sweltering heat. In addition to the battlefield in Ukraine, filming also took place on location in Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy, while interior scenes were filmed on the large De Laurentiis Studios lot in Rome. The battle sequences of the film include about 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras and 50 circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. It has been joked that Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh-largest army in the world.[1] Months before the cameras started filming, the 17,000 soldiers began training to learn 1815 drill and battle formations, as well as the use of sabres, bayonets and handling cannons. A selected 2,000 additional men were also taught to load and fire muskets. This army lived in a large encampment next to the battlefield. Each day after breakfast, they marched to a large wardrobe building, donned their French, British or Prussian uniforms and fifteen minutes later were in position. The soldiers were commanded by officers who took orders from director Sergei Bondarchuk via walkie-talkie. To assist in the direction of this huge, multi-national undertaking, the Soviet-Ukrainian director had four interpreters permanently at his side: one each for English, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian.
Noah Brown
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wowzers
Michael Butler
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Jacob Martinez
The Charge of the Light Brigade is kino
Connor Morales
Wonders of centrally planned economy never cease to amaze me. It's shit in the macro (entire economy) but nothing beats the scope and sheer size of totalitarian micro (specific projects).