At around minute 57 to 59, Morpheus explains to Neo that every citizen in the Matrix can become an agent like agent Smith, while everything else around them is frozen. How are these kind of scenes recorded/edited?
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Combination of CGI crowd, and actual extras holding still. Nothing complex.
Once they hold still, they can use movie editing to freeze some parts of the screen. You would mask them out, only tracking changes in the actors you want.
In other films, just keeping still is common. Dead people are just actors or extras not moving. You can some times still see them breathing.
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@todd it showed the behind the scenes for the shot. You see the woman in red and the few extras that form the crowd. And that it's not a green screen.– cdeCommented May 16, 2016 at 3:12
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3The video I just watched was 100% a funny anecdote about one of the crew wrecking his car because he was distracted by the actress in costume and was 0% about shooting the scene. There's nothing about people holding still. Commented May 16, 2016 at 3:16
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@todd true. Put it on mute and look at the scene being shot. If you want me to replace it with a screen shot.– cdeCommented May 16, 2016 at 3:25
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1And that's 46 seconds of my life I'm never getting back. Commented Sep 16, 2017 at 8:58