Arctic - pretty good survival movie

Arctic - pretty good survival movie Mar 23, 2019 7:40:00 GMT

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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2019 7:40:00 GMT

Mar 23, 2019 7:33:27 GMT joekiddlouischama said:

Jan 24, 2019 20:55:06 GMT Nora said:

where did you see it?

Agreed, the polar bears part was cool. I was wondering how they shot it. He looked really angry and non cgi.

The polar bear is definitely real. What I am wondering is whether the filmmakers used two different polar bears, one from a zoo and one in the wild. For during the closing credits, the filmmakers give a credit to a "polar bear" (I believe that his or her name is "Agee") while later crediting a polar bear wildlife videographer. So perhaps they used "Agee" for some scenes and captured a wild, untrained polar bear in other shots.

I just found the following article:

But work for Agee and other animals is slowing down in the film world as CGI takes over.

“Which is a shame,” says Dumas, who feels viewers are missing out on seeing “the majesty of such an incredible animal.”

“CGI, to me, is a cartoon. The animals don’t look as real.”

In Arctic, Agee appears in a scene involving a cave and, while she looks ferocious, it’s all an act.

“She’s trained to open her mouth and show her teeth. She doesn’t make any noise,” says Dumas, noting her roar in the film was added in post-production.

B.C. polar bear Agee bringing realistic touch to films in age of CGI

Either the filmmakers only featured Agee and used a special wildlife videographer for those shots, or they used the wildlife videographer for the

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long shot of a polar bear deep in the distance

much earlier in the movie.