2.4K views Sep 2009
Actors and filmmakers praise CG eyebrows, a fictional effects tool that adds emotion to performances and even creates lingering expressions and giant flaming brows.
0:00 Hi there. Spielberg once said, I don't care what you shoot, just shoot the fucking eyes. 0:08 And he was right. In a performance, where does the emotion and intensity that we love really lie? 0:16 In the eyes, surely. But what gives the eyes their emotion? You got it. 0:23 Eyebrows. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing CG Eyebrows. 0:31 So when I first heard, um, about the, the new technology, I was understandably skeptical. 0:36 I, I, I come from working on smaller films. This is one of the biggest budget productions I've done. 0:40 But when I had seen the producers, uh, spoken to them and seen what they wanted to achieve with this, uh, CG Eyebrows, you know, I had, I had to say yes. 0:47 Yeah, yeah. 0:48 It turns a very flat, dull, boring performance, uh, into an Oscar-nominated performance. 0:54 It can turn an Oscar nominated performance into an Oscar winning performance. 0:58 And your poor mother. 0:59 Look, it wasn't me, all right! It was your precious, precious Nigel. 1:20 And as they say, the, uh, the eyes are a way into the soul, the eyebrows are a portal, and he seemed to instinctively understand that. 1:33 We are even able to make a performance linger for as long as we want, way after the actor has left the scene. 1:39 I've never been so embarrassed in my entire life. 1:46 Can we have more colour on that, please, Chris? 1:48 Once these people see this, there's no way they'll be paying good money to go and sit inside a theatre and see people with no emotion on their face. 1:54 Flash bang, flash bang, flash bang, flash bang, eyebrow, eyebrow, flash bang, flash bang. 1:58 That's sending up smoke. Eyebrows coming down, smoke going up. 2:01 From the front, explosions that catches the eyebrows. Giant flaming eyebrows. 2:07 CG eyebrows has made acting easier. Well easier. 2:11 CG eyebrows literally saved my daughter's life. 2:15 You know, it's really revolutionized, you know, my my my world. 2:18 It's the future. 2:21 No! 
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