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Title: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: Redcrown on January 31, 2020, 09:19:08 pm
This is an interesting 13 minute video about the imaging technology that was used in the movie "The Irishman" to make the actors (DeNiro, Pesci, Pacino) look much younger in scenes where they played younger versions of themselves.

While it gives many examples, it does not say much about the actual method, other that a brief mention that 3 cameras are used, two of which are infrared. Apparently the infrared frames are somehow combined with the real frames to soften skin, remove shadows, etc.

https://youtu.be/OF-lElIlZM0
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: LesPalenik on February 01, 2020, 12:09:25 am
Following this video is another video, this time an interview of Robert de Niro by Stephen Colbert, showing a clip from the movie with Al Pacino.
Before that, the two discuss some current events and another personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPO9WmkHYEw
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on February 01, 2020, 07:47:22 am
This is an interesting 13 minute video about the imaging technology that was used in the movie "The Irishman" to make the actors (DeNiro, Pesci, Pacino) look much younger in scenes where they played younger versions of themselves.

While it gives many examples, it does not say much about the actual method, other that a brief mention that 3 cameras are used, two of which are infrared. Apparently the infrared frames are somehow combined with the real frames to soften skin, remove shadows, etc.

https://youtu.be/OF-lElIlZM0

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 01, 2020, 07:49:27 am
Forget the technology, it’s a lousy movie.
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: KLaban on February 01, 2020, 07:56:03 am
Forget the technology, it’s a lousy movie.

Thanks for the review, I'll definitely be watching it now.

;-)
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on February 01, 2020, 07:59:16 am
I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was just clever make up.
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: PeterAit on February 03, 2020, 11:43:22 am
Forget the technology, it’s a lousy movie.

The movie is vastly over-rated. Mostly more stereotypical gangster stuff. And DeNiro frowning.
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: JoeKitchen on February 03, 2020, 11:47:39 am
The movie is vastly over-rated. Mostly more stereotypical gangster stuff. And DeNiro frowning.

+1. 
Add to that, we know what DeNiro looks like young, and the editors did not even come close to that. 
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: PeterAit on February 03, 2020, 04:54:46 pm
+1. 
Add to that, we know what DeNiro looks like young, and the editors did not even come close to that.

And the body language, perhaps most notable in the early scene where the De Niro character is beating up the grocer. That's an old man.
Title: Re: Imaging tech used in "The Irishman"
Post by: JoeKitchen on February 03, 2020, 07:39:21 pm
And the body language, perhaps most notable in the early scene where the De Niro character is beating up the grocer. That's an old man.

I would never have thought at that scene like that, but your right.  A young does not fight like that.