Car crashes in movies like “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021) may look random and chaotic. But pulling off destruction that spectacular on camera requires hyper-tailored prep work — both on the cars themselves, and on other set elements. We visited JEM FX to find out how its team of effects wizards primes cars to get destroyed spectacularly on camera.
Taking a Buick LeSabre as our case study, JEM’s technicians showed us how they score a car’s roof pillars and replace its door hinges to set it up for optimal wreckage. Then we saw how the weakened car responded to various forms of destruction, from having a 3,000-pound weight dropped on its roof to getting its doors whacked off with a forklift.
The team at JEM also walked us through some highlights of their automobile effects work on “Shang-Chi” (2021), “Bright” (2017), “Taken 3” (2014), and “Velvet Buzzsaw” (2019).
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Very cool and interesting. I wonder if it makes some car companies think twice about placing their cars in movies. Do you want some great advertising or do you want people to think your car crushes like a aluminium can?
All BMW I3's NEED to be crushed.
Alternate title: If you ever want to hurt a car person, send them this.
What an amazing documentary. Very cool to see how do they do it
00:47 only fords caved in 😂
Using an angle grinder and cutting wheel with no gloves, no sleeves, no guard, no hearing protection, and no face shield? Guess OSHA doesn't visit these guys very often.
Where do I apply? 😂
Awesome information, thank you for showing this to me
This guy should probably wear a mask so he doesn't die of mesothelioma.
Employer why you want this job.
Me: i wanna make car safety engineer technicians cry and also make cars go boom or squish.
Employer: how would you do this.
Me: by chopping roofs and strapping nos bombs and launchin em.
Employer: your hired
1:28– Nothing seems more pointless than hooking that wire harness back up.
Trying to buy a car, don't have enough money for the deposit, they are out here destroying cars haha
Do we really need all this fakery, or at least added effects ?
Modern movie car crashes suck, because they look like fake. And in fact they are. Classic movie crashes look so much better
Looks like Craigslist mechanics to me. Nothing to worry about. Just buy a 300$ car and see what's under it 🤫
The fact, a brand-new car is being destroyed makes me feel sick…
I have some cars u guys can have i need to get rid of
1:04 no face shield, or ear plugs, gloves, long sleeves, guard or handle for the angle grinder. He also welded without a welding hood 💀
this is cruel idiot Global Warming ……..Reduce, Reuse, Recycle …….
In India that car top par can happen 😅😅 just try maruti cars
Putting all together and then put them att craigslist