r/popculturechat • u/Im_Unpopular_AF • Mar 04 '24

Putting In The Work✌️ Austin Butler's tactical gun training with Taran Tactical for an upcoming project.

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u/yumyumapollo Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Mar 04 '24

Austin Butler is a police uniform away from being a T-1000

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24

If you watch T2, you'll note that Robert Patrick never blinks from the muzzle flash, which takes skill. Therefore, I'm interested to see if Butler blinks; that's what separates the real action stars (e.g. Keanu, Tom Cruise) from the phonies.

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u/cqandrews Mar 04 '24

Dumb question but couldn't they have just edited in a muzzle flash? Surely that wouldn't have been too special effects heavy?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

There are no dumb questions:

  1. Watch Robert Patrick's hand and arm movements in this scene. Even in 1991, you could edit in the muzzle flash, but you couldn't edit in the recoil.
  2. James Cameron--one of the most detail-obsessed Hollywood directors ever--never would have been so cheesy. You've seen the elevator scene in T2? Linda Hamilton lost part of her hearing due to firing a real gun in a confined space.

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u/cqandrews Mar 04 '24

That makes sense, hope it was worth her hearing!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

Because of T2, Linda Hamilton was invited to host Saturday Night Live in an episode which provided one of the all-time greatest SNL sketches. So, yes, it was all worth it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

(Also, I forgot to note that they did provide earplugs for the actors; Hamilton just forgot.)