Round 8: Tossup 4

This film’s VFX team had to digitize a dire wolf skeleton from LACMA to fix a shot in which a dog actor urinated. The final shot of In the Heat of the Night inspired an aerial shot in this film created via miniatures and rear projection that pulls away from its protagonist looking out of a train after he asks a fellow passenger about a nearby “pyramid.” A large prosthetic nicknamed the “Venetian Head” was developed for this film, in which a mold of Robert Picardo was used to create an animatronic who whistles the Norwegian national anthem. (15[1])This film, which was shot (15[1])in Mexico City, pioneered mocap via two shots depicting a black (*) glass panel that uses X-rays to scan skeletons. A prosthetic in this film (-5[1])required fifteen puppeteers to portray a character who repeats the phrase “open your mind.” Rob Bottin’s effects for this film included models of its lead actors with their eyes and tongues popping out, a prosthetic of triple (-5[1])breasts, (10[1])and the (10[1])body of the (10[1])mutant (10[1])Kuato. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, a Philip K. Dick story about dreams inspired what 1990 Paul Verhoeven (“fur-HOO-vin”) film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? ■END■ (10[3])

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