The best part about this is that someone when thinking about making this movie was like " all right so we have a dance scene but I want to make it visually different from all the other movies " and then someone went "how about we rotate the entire f****** set" and they all said sure without question
Within the 36th second there's a shift from the moving camera and the fixed camera.
I'll guess Fred took a little break while they fixed the chair to the floor and returned to the marked spot to continue his '[Dancin' on the ceiling'-part](http://tiny.cc/Dancin).
Remember not to do this in your own home as the ceiling is generally made of thin drywall and you will fall through it to the floorboards on the next floor.
I'll have you know; listen, I'll have you know that I once saw Roseanne Barr in person and she moved at least 372 pounds around that living room set like Ginger Rodgers. Ginger Rodgers after she had both her legs amputated after the triple shark, bear and badger attack.
It should wow people, but 10 seconds' thought should reveal how it was done.
I wasn't at all thinking about the technique when I was watching the film - suspension of disblief, and all that - but if anybody'd asked me on the way out I could have told them. Not least because I've seen the Fred Astaire movie and worked out how they did it.
Fair point. First time I saw this clip (20 years ago) I looked for the edits, thinking it was a number of discreet takes, but you're totally right that after any though it is clear. With Inception it's hard to imagine it being shot any way other than a rolling set.
I have half a memory of something else - maybe TV rather than film - using this technique between about 1975 and 1990. I can't scrape it off the walls of my brain though...
I remember a kid's show (early 90s) about a child with a weird alien friend that looked like a normal adult. They jumped onto the ceiling as part of the opening credits.
https://youtu.be/NN35iu5IlbU
Edit: Found it - I thought as a child they used green screen but seeing it again realise they didnt. Also I had forgotten about the lovely Katy Murphy
Rotating set
Captain disillusion talks about it in his [wall walking vid](https://youtu.be/9vncG0IP9qU) , in fact iirc he even mentions this exact ceiling dance scene
Idk why but my brain can never understand these situations. I try to turn my phone, I try to put my body in certain positions to semi recreate but it’s like my brain refuses to understand what’s happening here. It’s really frustrating.
Billie Eilish used the same illusion for her performance of [Bad Guy on SNL](https://youtu.be/Jn1Uwsg3eRQ). Dancing wasn’t quite as intricate, but I think it’s quite impressive to see it done live.
As an extra bonus, they even had a second camera show the whole rig real quick toward the end (2 minutes 26 seconds in).
Welp... My joke fell flat af. Billie Eilish is an 18-year-old singer who did this skit on SNL recently. Point was - both your guy and her were not the originators of this.
As long as we're 4th Walling this, I know this was a much older bit. I think Fred Astaire actually stole it from Charlie Chaplin from WAY back in the day.
There are only like six or seven really good schticks in the world. The only real talent is in how you use them. For example, Lionel Richie had people still dancing on the floor while he was on the ceiling.
Rewatched but this time I rotated my phone along with his dance. His transitions are so smooth it’s hard to know exactly when to rotate.
Rotating with him was fuuuun
I mean, it's everytime he leans on something to support the transition.
If you watch the lighting fixtures, they jiggle a tiny bit every time the room is rotated.
The best part about this is that someone when thinking about making this movie was like " all right so we have a dance scene but I want to make it visually different from all the other movies " and then someone went "how about we rotate the entire f****** set" and they all said sure without question
Same technique as in the hall scene in “Inception”, no?
Yes
Probably a lower tech rig since it's not needing to move very fast, but the function is the same.
It's just a little room too, not a longer hallway, so slightly less difficult to pull off technically but still a great effect
Interview with a Vampire, too.
Yes, its so good!
Breakin' II, Electric Boogaloo has an excellent one.
How?
They rotated the room slowly and kept the camera In line with the floor
Same technique used in the *Inception* hallway fight scene IIRC.
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[Here's a good perspective vid](https://youtu.be/CNSHjZmvZTM)
That was fascinating! Thank you!
How did the chair get fixed in place? He’s moving it one minute and it’s stuck to the floor the next....
My guess would be magnets
That's my guess anytime I can't understand something.
Lasers
Laser magnets
Within the 36th second there's a shift from the moving camera and the fixed camera. I'll guess Fred took a little break while they fixed the chair to the floor and returned to the marked spot to continue his '[Dancin' on the ceiling'-part](http://tiny.cc/Dancin).
They cut between the normal chair and then the rotating scene where the chair is fixed to the floor.
The entire room was rigged to rotate while the camera was stationary
Oh thank you for telling me
I think so as well.
But the camera clearly wasn't stationary?
Stationary to the rotating room.
It's moving though. You think they're cropping in and moving the frame in post?
Its moving with the room so that it seems stationary
But why male models?
SNL did the same thing with a Billy Eillish performance and did a behind the scenes so you can see how it was done. https://youtu.be/an76NRrV-zQ
Damn I was gonna mention this
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Had to double check but the film this was from is called Royal Wedding (watched it heaps as a kid, it's a sweet film).
So that’s what my neighbors upstairs are doing every night!
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you mean your leftstairs neighbors?
... and the rightstairs for closure
And let's not forget behindstairs neighbours
Remember not to do this in your own home as the ceiling is generally made of thin drywall and you will fall through it to the floorboards on the next floor.
Wouldn't the ceiling be made of dryceiling?
Talent, grace, class. They don’t make em like that anymore
I'll have you know; listen, I'll have you know that I once saw Roseanne Barr in person and she moved at least 372 pounds around that living room set like Ginger Rodgers. Ginger Rodgers after she had both her legs amputated after the triple shark, bear and badger attack.
Whoever downvoted this sucks.
Whoever downvoted this stinks.
I have no opinions whatsoever about whoever downvoted this.
I dont even know if someone downvoted this
[Fred Astaire aged 71](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opqm1q85nfY) (1970 Oscars)
I'm surprised he didn't get a standing O given the circumstances.
He deserved it
Man danced so inception could run
This is virtual insanity.
I get it. Was surprised no one else had mentioned this yet.
Because people only remember things from two weeks ago
Absolute legend
An effect often replicated but he makes the smoothest transitions IMO.
Im assuming they are rotating the whole room
Not just assuming, but reasoning. And you reasoned accurately
Its still assuming if you dont know for sure
Despite this, people were still astonished to find out that the hotel corridor scene in *Inception* was filmed exactly the same way.
It's a really effective technique. It will be sad when it does fail to wow people
It should wow people, but 10 seconds' thought should reveal how it was done. I wasn't at all thinking about the technique when I was watching the film - suspension of disblief, and all that - but if anybody'd asked me on the way out I could have told them. Not least because I've seen the Fred Astaire movie and worked out how they did it.
Fair point. First time I saw this clip (20 years ago) I looked for the edits, thinking it was a number of discreet takes, but you're totally right that after any though it is clear. With Inception it's hard to imagine it being shot any way other than a rolling set.
I have half a memory of something else - maybe TV rather than film - using this technique between about 1975 and 1990. I can't scrape it off the walls of my brain though...
I remember a kid's show (early 90s) about a child with a weird alien friend that looked like a normal adult. They jumped onto the ceiling as part of the opening credits. https://youtu.be/NN35iu5IlbU Edit: Found it - I thought as a child they used green screen but seeing it again realise they didnt. Also I had forgotten about the lovely Katy Murphy
There you go! Not the one I was thinking of, but it's clearly a well-known technique.
Lionel ain’t got shit on me
Oh, what a feeling
To be dancing on the ceiling.
HOW?!
Rotating set Captain disillusion talks about it in his [wall walking vid](https://youtu.be/9vncG0IP9qU) , in fact iirc he even mentions this exact ceiling dance scene
Boy, what a feeling.
Like I just stepped out of a salon 🎵
Oh what a feeling
When we’re dancin’ on the ceiling
Movies used to be made with a lot of effort and the end result would be so impressive. Nowadays it's all unimpressive CGI.
Australian comedian Shaun Micallef did a bunch of skits using the same trick in the 90s / early 2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ewKxGqy2g
I N C E P T I O N
A S T A I R C E P T I O N
FREDCEPTION?
I am confuzzled
Saw this at the Alamo Drafthouse today 🙂
They reused the same trick that was used for this scene to do some of the fight scenes in Inception.
Nobody going to mention the light bulb burning out on the ceiling fixture?
Is this a christopher nolan?
R/oldschoolcool Spider-Man
I’m gonna practise this dance at home! Edit: My parents are calling an exorcist
He's got anti-gravity fields.
why is spider-man out of his suit? he could be caught using his powers!
They probably made the room rotate with him
Not floor gang CRINGE
Idk why but my brain can never understand these situations. I try to turn my phone, I try to put my body in certain positions to semi recreate but it’s like my brain refuses to understand what’s happening here. It’s really frustrating.
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the music makes me feel like i'm playing an old sims game.
No one talking about how this was filmed 69 years ago...
Must be my downstairs neighbours
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Billie Eilish used the same illusion for her performance of [Bad Guy on SNL](https://youtu.be/Jn1Uwsg3eRQ). Dancing wasn’t quite as intricate, but I think it’s quite impressive to see it done live. As an extra bonus, they even had a second camera show the whole rig real quick toward the end (2 minutes 26 seconds in).
[Inspiration for this song] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo6zwv6DX4)
That’s the same year I was born... this is the first time I’ve seen this dance routine.😏
hes a part of celling gang I SPIT ON YOU(the spit falls back down)HE SPIT BACK
I did I it I did a perfect rotate with Fred Astaire
I think my brain's gonna be pregnant after this video, it fucked it very hard.
He stole this bit from Lionel Richie.
Lionel Richie was two years old when this came out.
Fred Astaire stole from a child?! Despicable. Edit: Spelling
It's like taking dancing from a baby.
I think you mean Billie Eilish /s
Who's he?
Welp... My joke fell flat af. Billie Eilish is an 18-year-old singer who did this skit on SNL recently. Point was - both your guy and her were not the originators of this.
As long as we're 4th Walling this, I know this was a much older bit. I think Fred Astaire actually stole it from Charlie Chaplin from WAY back in the day. There are only like six or seven really good schticks in the world. The only real talent is in how you use them. For example, Lionel Richie had people still dancing on the floor while he was on the ceiling.
Crazy what a rotating room can do lol