Welcome to Muppet Wiki!
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| + | {{character|image=NotAgain42.JPG|performer=[[Bill Bailey]]|debut=2005|design=[[Dave Dunsterville]]|designnote=designer}} |
||
| − | {{performer|Bill Bailey}} |
||
| − | [[Image:NotAgain42.JPG|thumb|300px]] |
||
| − | {{designer1|[[Dave Dunsterville]]|animatronic designer}} |
||
| − | '''The Whale''' appeared in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. This large sperm whale comes into existence when the Improbability Drive transforms a nuclear missile. The aquatic mammal ponders the questions of his existence and his physicality for a very brief period. As he plummets to his death, his final thought is the cheerful expectation that the ground will be friends with him. |
+ | '''The Whale''' appeared in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. This large sperm whale comes into existence when the Improbability Drive transforms a nuclear missile. The aquatic mammal ponders the questions of his existence and his physicality for a very brief period. As he plummets to his death, his final thought is the cheerful expectation that the ground will be friends with him. |
A highly detailed model sperm whale was created and filmed in free fall. [[Jim Henson's Creature Shop]] built an 11-foot-long model of the typically 50-foot-long marine mammal. According to director Garth Jennings in the official presskit, "The whale that the Creature Shop created was truly beautiful... We shot it |
A highly detailed model sperm whale was created and filmed in free fall. [[Jim Henson's Creature Shop]] built an 11-foot-long model of the typically 50-foot-long marine mammal. According to director Garth Jennings in the official presskit, "The whale that the Creature Shop created was truly beautiful... We shot it |
||
| Line 11: | Line 9: | ||
==See also== |
==See also== |
||
*[[Whales]] |
*[[Whales]] |
||
| + | |||
| ⚫ | |||
| + | __NOWYSIWYG__ |
||
| ⚫ | |||
| + | {{DEFAULTSORT:Whale, The}} |
||
| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | |||
Latest revision as of 00:35, 23 September 2018
 | |
| PERFORMER | Bill Bailey |
| DEBUT | 2005 |
| DESIGN | Dave Dunsterville designer |
The Whale appeared in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This large sperm whale comes into existence when the Improbability Drive transforms a nuclear missile. The aquatic mammal ponders the questions of his existence and his physicality for a very brief period. As he plummets to his death, his final thought is the cheerful expectation that the ground will be friends with him.
A highly detailed model sperm whale was created and filmed in free fall. Jim Henson's Creature Shop built an 11-foot-long model of the typically 50-foot-long marine mammal. According to director Garth Jennings in the official presskit, "The whale that the Creature Shop created was truly beautiful... We shot it with an in-camera effect so it looks like it’s falling through the sky, and later we added just a couple of effects shots. But essentially the whole whale sequence was shot in camera. It looks so realistic—to me it’s as if we had a skydiver trying to film the whale as he was plummeting with it!"