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Fury Road's Practical FX Myth
Don't believe it when Hollywood says there was no CGI
When the trailer came out for Furiosa, the prequel to George Miller’s 2015 arthouse blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, folks across the net (and reportedly even in theaters) started to unfavorably evaluate the film via comparisons to its predecessor. The problem is that the marketing campaigns for such works attempt to support the illusion of ‘No CGI’ and so in turn bolster them culturally and commercially by misleadingand sometimes outright lying to audiences, while promoting the false notion that somehow practical FX are inherently superior to DVFX/CGI. The early reactions to the Furiosa trailer footage on social media platforms like Twitter or sites like Reddit clearly illustrate how pervasive the false “No CGI” and the “ Fury Road was 90% practical FX” narratives continue to be.
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