{"id":5429,"date":"2025-02-20T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:04:42","slug":"adam-savage-repairing-old-special-effects-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/adam-savage-repairing-old-special-effects-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Savage repairing old special-effects props"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-zsgv98irxnm69e0cdfc6d92c301869093\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.200000%\"><\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zSGv98iRxnM?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-zsgv98irxnm69e0cdfc6d92c301869093\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zSGv98iRxnM?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zSGv98iRxnM?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This video is quite interesting in terms of &#8220;restoration&#8221; theory.  A movie prop can be the &#8220;original prop,&#8221; but it&#8217;s not the &#8220;original pistol,&#8221; because the pistol is fantastic, dramatic and imaginary, never a real pistol.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that Savage has the plans of the prop-makers of the first prop, but he doesn&#8217;t feel driven to slavishly copy all the workings and materials of the first prop.  A replica prop is a replica that *photographs like* the other prop.  Because that&#8217;s its purpose as a prop; not to be an authentic original artwork but to be effectively photographed.<\/p>\n<p>Savage doesn&#8217;t actually photograph his replica prop in any movie.  He puts his replica prop on display in his office, in order to demonstrate to visitors and customers that he, a professional FX technician, has the  skill and ability to create props that look and even feel indistinguishable from famous movie-props.  He doesn&#8217;t sell the replica prop, although he presumably could. The prop is a form of tradesman&#8217;s advertising and an implicit guarantee of his skills and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>Also, although the prop is not real and isn&#8217;t used as a gun, it&#8217;s a real material object that decays and has use-wear.  He doesn&#8217;t want to show people a tarnished and beat-up old prop &#8212; although a prop collector might very much WANT a tarnished and beat-up old prop so as to prove that he has the old prop that was used long ago by famous actors in a famous movie.   Savage doesn&#8217;t want any of this veteran patina on his prop, though; he needs his prop to look shiny and up-top-date.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in his extensive career, he&#8217;s made several of the same prop over the years, and he might make another one.  He&#8217;s not worried about the market being diluted by all these &#8220;pirate copies.&#8221;  It&#8217;s common for prop-makers to make several similar props so that they will have workable spares during the movie production; they&#8217;re not jealously guarded &#8220;originals.  Also, as a movie FX pro,  he&#8217;s simply not a &#8220;pirate&#8221; any more than a special recording technician making several &#8220;takes&#8221; of an unreleased song is a pirate.   It&#8217;s certainly possible to &#8220;pirate movies,&#8221; but the props in the movie are not the artwork, they&#8217;re like costumes, set and decor. <\/p>\n<p> Often the props in movies are chimeric objects cobbled-together out of other model kits &#8212; &#8220;kit-bashing&#8221; or pieces of  junked machinery.  They&#8217;re not original sculptures but a form of collage.<\/p>\n<p>Savage spends a lot of time befriending real museum staff in charge of maintaining and refurbishing real historic objects.  This work is &#8220;real restoration work,&#8221; and  it&#8217;s performed with &#8220;real restoration tools,&#8221; but it&#8217;s not a real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is quite interesting in terms of &#8220;restoration&#8221; theory. A movie prop can be the &#8220;original prop,&#8221; but it&#8217;s not the &#8220;original pistol,&#8221; because the pistol is fantastic, dramatic and imaginary, never a real pistol. 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