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A portrait of the life and times of Steve Johnson, one of Hollywood's most prolific special effects makeup artists.
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00:02my goal as an effects artist is to show you something that there's no way you could have
00:06thought of yourself suddenly we had unleashed the writers minds they couldn't show any story
00:11they wanted to the whole business exploded and we did indeed become rock stars watch this
00:19it's more than just a makeup artist they do practical effects do you like to be scared of
00:24the movies well apparently you're not alone 80s horror was a big thing it was a blast
00:29horror is so hot in fact it's even gained a certain glamour you ever been watching a movie or
00:33commercial you found yourself wondering how they do that steve johnson creates the monsters felt like
00:39i had to prove myself because i wasn't good at sports i had this one thing that i could do
00:43that
00:43making the best monster i could made me kind of belong rick baker my hero he had just done the
00:49cantina sequence for star wars he gave me his phone number and he said listen if you ever make out
00:53to
00:54hollywood give me a call i loaded up my car and hit the road we're just a bunch of kids
00:58we'd
00:59know how to do this because it's probably not possible in the first place they come out of
01:03the woodwork they're so strange if they didn't have this thing to do they'd probably be working
01:07in a gas station we provided a lot of work for the special effects guys i went home and bought
01:1110 pounds of cocaine so that i would not have to sleep james cameron is the only director that made
01:16me cry but i did love him for it because he made my work better you have the work and
01:21then you had
01:22the partying which is phenomenal steve's favorite word must have been like this really can't be done we
01:27got to figure out how to do it i just wanted to create fun stuff our stars are fading and
01:33now
01:33technology wipes it out now we're the dinosaurs when they put so much love energy the audience
01:40thinks it's done digitally anyway he's the architect of his own misfortune he was kind of in this other
01:46realm these drugs do make you better till they take you down and i snapped
01:54really is extraordinary how all these kids had such an effect i don't think steve ever got the
01:59credit that he really deserved for a lot of things he did i'm gonna make some of the greatest movies
02:04ever and then i'm just gonna slam it in the great frame to a brick wall and jump from the
02:08smoking wreckage
02:11this movie's gonna ruin what's left of my ragged career
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