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The Game of Thrones cast and crew give an inside look on filming the loot train attack in season 7. Game of Thrones airs on HBO on Sundays at 9.
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01:04And I chose to focus on Jayme, that it was about being on the other side of a Dragon attack,
01:10trying to hold together his troops in the middle of watching the world change forever.
01:15It's just complete annihilation.
01:17You see the horror of so many men burn to ashes.
01:21There's nothing you can do, which is scary.
01:23Sì, stai perdendo le battaglie e stai perdendo senza mai riportare.
01:28E c'è solo un po' di quello che Dany può prendere.
01:31C'è solo un po' di quello che nessuno può prendere.
01:33Ora siamo resti con i nostri herosi,
01:35e i nostri herosi sono al contrario di questo chessboard.
01:40Tirion ha il più complesso sete di emozioni di questa battaglia di nessuno,
01:45perché ha la persona che ha servito a una parte,
01:47e ha il suo figlio che ha amato a una parte.
01:49E' un po' reale struggle per lui.
01:51Ogni parte di questo essere è piaciuto che non si può intercedere,
01:55ma non è.
01:56E io ho vedo, first hand,
01:58ma la mia famiglia di perdere.
02:00È la agressore,
02:01e con Jaime e Bron,
02:04per loro povere,
02:05vediamo che è molto conquistato.
02:07E l'ho spero è che il ragione non sa chi lo che dovessero per in questa sequenza.
02:15Sì, come la lute train,
02:16involves molti di due parti,
02:18all working at sort of the very extremes of their abilities, I think.
02:22This was a difficult challenge
02:24because there are so many different looks
02:26and phases of the battle that come into play.
02:29There's a lot of continuity to make sure
02:31that we're in the right space,
02:33in the right part of the process,
02:35reflecting the right amount of burn.
02:37And then do it in between the cracks
02:40of everybody else doing their job.
02:43Because the entire sequence is a wagon train,
02:46and involves 27 wagons,
02:47and there are various bits of dressing.
02:49We have to reshuffle the entire set constantly,
02:51which means dressing 180 degrees or 360,
02:54depending on the camera movement.
02:56So it means we have to be very particular
02:58when it comes to dressing our burnt elements,
03:00our unburnt elements, our partial burnt elements.
03:03There are so many stages to consider,
03:07but it's definitely a hell of a lot more fun
03:10when it gets into the bloody battle.
03:12We have a die that we're using,
03:13which is an eco-friendly die,
03:15which dyes things black to make it look very charred and burnt.
03:19And we're using several forms of ash as well
03:21to dress in and make it all look authentic,
03:24along with charcoal and stuff like that.
03:26Maybe when you're watching it,
03:27it doesn't necessarily stand out,
03:30and that means we've done our job,
03:31because people just accept this is the world
03:34and that's the environment.
03:35We are the front line of the fence,
03:37and detail is our job.
03:38So we're very happy about it.
03:43When I get to a sequence like the one we're doing right now,
03:47I take a deep breath and go,
03:49oh, boy, that is going to be a lot of work.
03:52We had every toy you could possibly imagine
03:55in the making of it.
03:56We had four cameras most of the time.
03:58Sometimes we had up to seven or eight cameras.
04:00We've gone through three different tracking vehicles
04:03for different purposes on this.
04:05We've got basically a souped-up pickup truck
04:08with really good suspension for our charges,
04:10Dothraki charges and what have you.
04:12We've got another electric vehicle
04:14called a shadow tracker,
04:15and we've got a jib arm on that.
04:17And then finally, we've got basically a souped-up dune buggy
04:20with a stabilized head on it
04:22that takes all the bounce out
04:23and gives us a nice, steady, smooth shot
04:25to use over the particularly rough terrain.
04:27We needed to sell speed,
04:30and we needed to shoot elaborate dragon points of view.
04:34To do those kinds of shots,
04:36we're relying on two different camera platforms.
04:38One is what's called SpiderCam.
04:40This is basically a camera rigged to a cable
04:44run between two construction cranes,
04:46and they can move the camera very quickly
04:48from one end to the other,
04:49and the camera can go about 70 miles per hour.
04:52We also used a company called FlyCam,
04:53which is like a souped-up drone.
04:55It's like a small helicopter.
04:57They were also able to go very fast
04:58and have a much more solid image
05:00to be able to work with
05:01than you would get from a traditional drone.
05:03So we can fly over things safely
05:04and also have interactive effect on the ground
05:07and capture all those elements
05:08that will have a dragon
05:09either in front of the lens or above the lens.
05:14The battle is going to rely very heavily
05:16on visual effects at the end of the day.
05:18There's a lot of different beats to the attack.
05:23Sort of like cowboys and Indians
05:25and fire-breathing dragons all rolled up into one.
05:28There's Drogon breathing lots of fire,
05:31setting lots of things and people on fire.
05:34To give an idea, in season six,
05:37which was our biggest season up to that point,
05:39we had 11 shots that featured Amelia riding the dragon.
05:42In the loot train, we have over 80.
05:45It's very new ground that we're trying to figure out
05:49this dragon who's, you know, 100 feet up in the air,
05:52who breathes fire of a column of 30 feet wide,
05:54that you're like,
05:55okay, how the hell are you gonna do that?
05:57You've got Amelia on the back of a motion base
05:59that's animated to fly in concert
06:03with the animation on the dragon.
06:05So that the thing she's moving on is moving around
06:08as if she was really riding on Drogon
06:10but in a stage in Belfast in front of green screen.
06:13So being on this theme park ride is kind of what it is
06:16and you're strapped in,
06:18then looking like you are controlling it,
06:21when there's so much going on,
06:23you've just got to harness every single bit of imagination
06:25you have and just use it.
06:28I mean, can you even imagine being on the back of a reptile
06:31that's breathing fire at your command?
06:34That's huge.
06:40One of the most complicated shots was this strafe run
06:45where the camera's over the back of Dany
06:48as she is blasting the shit out of this line of Lannisters
06:51and loot train carriages.
06:53We had to have spider cam fly a camera in real time
06:57and in perfect sync with 100 feet of ground explosions
07:00that are huge.
07:02Sam is our effects guru
07:03and he's kind of a madman in the best possible way
07:06and, you know, one of his responsibilities
07:08is setting things on fire.
07:10which he's really good at.
07:11The strafe run was 150 feet long
07:14and it had 15 rows of charges.
07:17We tested it in Madrid back in August.
07:20We only tested a short section of it
07:22minus the carts because we were still making those.
07:25All the effect has to mimic
07:26as though the flame is coming from the sky.
07:29So we'll always size up the flame later in post.
07:31We'll shoot elements of flame against black,
07:34but Sam here has to make it feel
07:36that the impact of the flame is pushing along,
07:40so it has a travel to it.
07:41I mean, we've been blowing things up on many days,
07:43but working out the timing of that was quite a process.
07:48In the end, we went with a fuel mix and explosives.
07:51It was almost like a machine gun sort of strafe,
07:54but closer together.
07:55And as each one exploded,
07:57it would then engulf the next and the next and the next,
07:59so you almost get a seamless line of flame just growing through.
08:01Because it was only one tape,
08:02there was a lot that could go wrong.
08:03There was a lot of materials used
08:05and a lot of, you know, a lot of pyro used as well,
08:07so it's the excitement of when that button is pressed.
08:17It's the euphoria you feel afterwards.
08:19Knowing the hard work that's involved,
08:21it all comes to that point.
08:22That's the prize. That's the excitement.
08:24That's the reason.
08:33George Martin's often said that the Dothraki
08:36are kind of an amalgam of American Indian tribes and the Mongols,
08:40both peoples who were, you know, phenomenal on horseback
08:43and they were just much faster and so unorthodox
08:46in their battle approach
08:47that they could literally ride circles around their enemies.
08:51I think there was a line in the outline that said,
08:53and now it's down to Camilla to do her tricks.
08:55I was like, thanks, D&D.
08:57Okay, where are we gonna go now?
08:59Let's think of some ideas.
09:00What can we bring which has never been seen on screen before?
09:03She said, you know,
09:04what about as the Dothraki are coming down
09:06if they all just stood up on their horses
09:08and started shooting arrows at them?
09:11And I thought, that sounds great, but that's not possible.
09:14She said, no, it is.
09:15We build these special stirrups and we can do it.
09:17So I sent a team out here with the horses
09:19and they started rehearsing the action
09:21and shooting a pre-vis,
09:22which was then sent back to Northern Ireland
09:24and then we could start putting that in front of people.
09:26You've got almost a metal shoe that you put your foot into
09:29and then you have one foot on the side of the horse
09:31and the other foot on the top of the saddle.
09:32So we have these guys standing up and, you know,
09:35we're endeavoring to try and, you know,
09:36create something that somebody hasn't seen before.
09:39And it's extraordinary.
09:40It's like a wave rising up from a still ocean
09:42and all these guys perfectly coordinated rising up.
09:45And I love it.
09:45And it shows us that the Dothraki are horse masters
09:48because we really haven't had that opportunity before.
09:50You know, so much of these battle scenes now
09:53has become visual effects that I hope people realize
09:55that much of this is actually being done.
09:57It's really, you know, stuntmen standing up on horses
09:59with bow and arrow shooting arrows
10:01and that's an impressive thing to see.
10:03There is something about a guy on a horse,
10:06standing on a horse, charging.
10:07There's something pretty impressive where you go,
10:09well, you don't just do that.
10:12And we were kind of thinking to do something Mad Max-y.
10:14You know, when they come in, it's crazy.
10:16They're coming in different shapes.
10:17You don't know where they're coming from
10:18and they're just these absolute madmen on horses.
10:21And that's what we try to recreate on screen
10:23for the loot train sequence.
10:25Ready, and three, two, one, action!
10:33This battle was the most fire-intensive one we've had.
10:36We burned more stuntmen than has ever been burned
10:39in a single shot and in a single sequence.
10:42The dragons have grown.
10:43You know, they're the size of a 747 now.
10:46So you'd think then that the amount of people
10:48they burn in one go would increase.
10:50We have potentially the most burns, full burns,
10:52ever done on TV history,
10:54which is burning 20 men in one shot,
10:57which we have coming up.
10:58And it was, there was a few raised-out eyebrows
11:00when I suggested 20.
11:02And it wasn't just because it's a record,
11:04although it is,
11:05it was because we just needed to see the scope
11:07of what was happening.
11:08So that was quite a challenge.
11:09The difficulty with 20 people is just that
11:11you ramp up the safety aspect of it
11:12because there's more people in harm's way,
11:14there's more that can go wrong.
11:15That was quite nerve-wracking for many reasons.
11:18Obviously, when you have that amount of people
11:20collected and they're all on fire,
11:21you get a lot of heat gathering in the center.
11:24So I was really concerned about the guys in the middle.
11:26And I wanted to make sure that we get the guys on the outsides
11:29as far away from the guys on the inside
11:31as quickly as possible.
11:32We're using Tamar poppers.
11:34It's basically like a camping cylinder.
11:36And we put it inside a metal cage
11:38so that the shrapnel won't hurt anybody.
11:40and we basically put a pyro charge on that
11:43which explodes the gas popper.
11:45It creates a 15 feet fireball.
11:48And we put one of those with each performer.
11:49It just means that when you light them,
11:51they really light.
11:51During this whole process where you're on fire,
11:53you do have to hold your breath.
11:55And that's the key point,
11:56is to keep your heart rate down
11:57so you can hold your breath throughout the whole scene.
12:00Raleigh's big on making it as calm as possible, you know.
12:03If someone's on fire, you know,
12:04it's quite a high adrenaline thing going on.
12:07And saving your breath is very important
12:08so you've got to be calm.
12:10You know, we are a show that doesn't sit on our laurels
12:12so we do try and top ourselves each year
12:14although we seem to make it more and more difficult
12:17for ourselves as we go on.
12:18It's just a fear factor, of course,
12:20that we see a man on fire.
12:23Never mind 20.
12:2420 guys and one go.
12:25It's pretty...
12:27It's scary.
12:27Okay, ready, and...
12:313...
12:322...
12:321...
12:33Action!
12:352...
12:363...
12:374...
12:385...
12:396...
12:407...
12:418...
12:429...
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12:45Out, out, out!
12:52You know, when we start making these huge battles,
12:55it's so hard to imagine that we're ever going to finish
12:57because there are so many moving pieces, but it's ultimately
12:59just, you know, one shot at a time
13:01and figuring it out from there.
13:03The cameras and the actors and stunts,
13:05and it was very much an all-hands-on-deck sequence
13:08as much as we've ever had,
13:10and everybody did an excellent job
13:12of fitting all the puzzle pieces together.
13:15This is big cinema, and to get to work in all those genres
13:17all rolled into one fantastic world,
13:20that's the part I like.
13:21You never know what they're going to throw at you.
13:23You know, last year we completed Battle of the Bastards
13:25and it was like, oh, yeah, how about this year?
13:28So it's good.
13:28They're always up the ante, and I love that.
13:30It naturally gets bigger, this show.
13:32It just does.
13:33It's not me doing it.
13:34They ride it.
13:35It's a unique challenge in that
13:37you'll never really be able to do that kind of thing again,
13:41and, you know, the next time I get to work on some other show,
13:43it'll be so boring.
13:44You know, where's the cable cam?
13:45Where's the, you know,
13:46five cameras and the 20 burning guys?
13:48.
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