Michael Clarke Duncan, the late actor who played John Coffey in The Green Mile, was only 6’5″. How was he made to appear so much taller and larger?
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Michael Clarke Duncan, the late actor who played John Coffey in The Green Mile, was only 6’5″. How was he made to appear so much taller and larger?
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Actually, he was only 6′2 or 6′3. But in scenes with David Morse(6′4″)and Tom Hanks(6′0″) they dug trenches for those actors to walk/stand in to make Duncan’s character appear huge
Camera angels cause this. In filmmaking there are tricks we use to create an illusion. When an adult speaks to a child, camera is usually set high over the shoulder looking down, the reply by a child is their height looking up. Where two people are equal, lens is often pointed ar face height.
In Lord of the Rings John Rhys Davies as the Dwarf, was mostly filmed high ankle looking down on him and the.responses by the Pixies were looking down on him where his point of view (POV) was camera looking up.
This is known as subliminal shots and the audience, whilst not actually aware of it, it brings them closer into the characters. It’s a nice ‘trick’ we use. We can always tell an amateur photographer by the positioning of the talent in the lens LOL.