地道美语听力练习:电影特效

Chrissy:Wow, that movie was amazing, but I can't believe that they blew up the Eiffel Tower.

I bet the French are really pissed.

Jack:You're kidding, right?

They didn't really blow up the Eiffel Tower.

They used special effects to make it look that way.

Chrissy:Are you sure? It really looked like the real thing.

Jack:They used a scale model or a computer-generated image of the Eiffel Tower and added some pyrotechnics or other visual effects to create what you saw on the screen.

It's like a big optical illusion.

I can't believe you really thought they blew up the Eiffel Tower.

Chrissy:Oh no, I didn't. I was just kidding.

But you have to admit that it was pretty cool that they got the real president of the United States to kill that monster, right?

Jack:You must be messing with my mind again.

That wasn't the president.

That was an actor wearing prosthetics and makeup standing in front of a green screen.

They added the monster later in post-production.

Chrissy:Oh, right, sure.

But you have to hand it to them for moving a section of the Great Wall of China to New York City, right?

Jack:Oh, boy...