I have fallen hard down the rabbit hole of the Patterson/Gimli film. It started with the podcast Astonishing Legends and it's five part series on this film. I have watched countless YouTube videos, articles, pretty much every source of this to try and find any scrutiny that truly answers this not being real.
I can't. I think I'm leaning on Team Real.
Mainly due to the time period. At this time, to pull off this effect, Hollywood budgets couldn't do this. Then you count at the time, the shakiness of the footage. Well....that's been answered as well with stabilization. Now you can see it in 4K, which is even more astonishing, because you can see the muscle ripple on the creature as it walks. Then the bright spots on the fur, and that's because of years and years of the arms and legs rubbing in those areas as it walked. These are details that, at the time, would easily be overlooked because of the resolution of the footage. Then there's the gait. Videos that go into this essentially point out, the motion is unnatural. Not that it can't be reproduced, but to reproduce it with someone that would have to be on stilts due to the height, on rough terrain, while looking back and controlling the gait that long is really, really hard to do, especially at the time.
Also, in this day and age, footage like this with the advancements of practical effects, we still can't get close to this, not even on the suit.
Oh, and did you know the creature is female?! Never realized this until I saw the stabilized footage.
You can YouTube thousands of videos on this, a few that I watched was this:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGtFwo8umk
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9q8k-q64i4
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DyakcJB7Q8
So, what say you, ERA? Real......or Fake?
I can't. I think I'm leaning on Team Real.
Mainly due to the time period. At this time, to pull off this effect, Hollywood budgets couldn't do this. Then you count at the time, the shakiness of the footage. Well....that's been answered as well with stabilization. Now you can see it in 4K, which is even more astonishing, because you can see the muscle ripple on the creature as it walks. Then the bright spots on the fur, and that's because of years and years of the arms and legs rubbing in those areas as it walked. These are details that, at the time, would easily be overlooked because of the resolution of the footage. Then there's the gait. Videos that go into this essentially point out, the motion is unnatural. Not that it can't be reproduced, but to reproduce it with someone that would have to be on stilts due to the height, on rough terrain, while looking back and controlling the gait that long is really, really hard to do, especially at the time.
Also, in this day and age, footage like this with the advancements of practical effects, we still can't get close to this, not even on the suit.
Oh, and did you know the creature is female?! Never realized this until I saw the stabilized footage.
You can YouTube thousands of videos on this, a few that I watched was this:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkGtFwo8umk
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9q8k-q64i4
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DyakcJB7Q8
So, what say you, ERA? Real......or Fake?
