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John Badham
British
Director
Born:
Aug 25
,
1939
Black
Eric
Get
Personality
Today
You
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There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
John Badham
Great
Attention Span
Kids
Minutes
About
Scenes
Purposes
Attention
Longer
Knowing
Make
Were
Than
Just
Span
Length
Much
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.
John Badham
Would
About
Excited
Real
Germans
Get
Japanese
Things
Technological
Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.
John Badham
Think
Films
Though
He
Thunder
Over
Like
Most
Years
Lots
Lots And Lots
Blue
Done
Production
Designer
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
John Badham
Today
Day
You
Impossible
Thinking
Other
Draw
One Thing
Running
Dinosaurs
Kinds
Totally
About
Could
Computer
Idea
Conceive
Around
Movies
Them
Even
Thing
Things
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.
John Badham
You
Black
Thread
Clear
Tie
Go
Line
Fishing
Rod
End
Get
Going
Use
Your
Plastic
Thin
In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!
John Badham
Crazy
You
Light
Space
Black
Took
Background
See
Properly
Could
Had
Wires
Stuff
Drove
Well
Around
Doing
Up
Movie
Against
Them
Painted
Floating
Zero
Gravity
When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
John Badham
Took
Over
Liked
Him
Because
Eric
Up
Very
Five
Germans
Germany
Done
Movie
Them
Really
Popular
Displayed
Number
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
John Badham
Funny
Today
Me
Personality
Robot
Would
Charming
He
Because
How
His
Appealed
Mechanics
Thing
Necessarily
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