Found this here, with the comment “Even the most mundane scenes these days are filmed with the magic of green screen technology.”
To which I have to say… huh?
All of those scenes would have been ludicrously expensive to shoot on-location. The Lincoln Memorial is usually busy! Remote mountaintops are remote! Even city-street scenes are far from “mundane”; even if you don’t block car traffic, you have to keep pedestrians out, and neither the passers-by nor the local stores are likely to be pleased. And who expects a special-effects shot, like the one with the burning boat, to be filmed without green screen?
What this video proves to me is that television is attempting more expensive and more spectacular filmmaking than ever before. And that the audience has no idea what constitutes a “mundane” shot.
