I’ve never actually seen Royal Wedding, but before Stanley Kubrick‘s spinning stewardess in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Christopher Nolan‘s hallway fight in Inception, Fred Astaire was playing with the minds of audiences as he danced on the walls and ceiling in the 1951 musical.
I tried thinking of some other instances where similar gravity-defying scenes played out but couldn’t. I looked for a clip of the gravity books from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and there are a few other instances as this one from “The Avengers” television series and I’ve included one of several music videos to use the technique below, but what else? Can you think of more?
Coming soon, there are apparently zero-gravity fight and training sequences in the upcoming Ender’s Game adaptation, which may open up the door for some interesting possibilities. Roberto Orci tells io9 for that shoot they will absolutely film the zero-gravity sequences “using tanks, using motion capture, using amazing acrobats, using an amazing space.” Could be interesting.
For now, here are a couple of awesome looks at what can be done using practical effects rather than resorting to CG, something I think any film fan can appreciate.
And then, of course, there’s this…
[via Reddit]
