Thursday, June 19, 2008
Dubai was in that movie Jumper!
Jumper posterThe other night Liz and I took a break from our busy schedules to watch a movie - Doug Liman's Jumper.

You probably didn't see it. It's got Hayden Christensen (the young Darth Vader), the chick from The OC, and Sam Jackson.

The plot is quite simple, Darth Vader can teleport anywhere in the world, and Sam Jackson is a normal human trying to kill him.

Part of the reason that we wanted to see it, though, was they really filmed at the pyramids and Sphinx and we were just there.

Overall it's not a great film, although it has some good special effects and some neat location shots (such as Egypt, New York, Toyko, Rome).

Anyway, at one point towards the end of the movie DV (Darth Vader) is being chased by another teleporter. The two have this rigorous chase where they teleport all over the world. One minute they're in San Francisco and then bampf they're running through this desert ... with construction in the background ... then there's the Burj Al Arab ... hey - they're in Dubai!

On closer viewing the background construction is the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex at the Dubai Marina. You might remember it from my cool camel photo.

I'm pretty sure they didn't really shoot in Dubai, though. I bet they combined some background plate shots of Dubai with some special effects.

Why do I think this? Well, for one judging from the state of the JBR construction the footage was shot at least two years ago, I'd say in 2005. Second, the actors look pretty computer-generated when they're running. And lastly the Burj Al Arab is five miles away from where it really is.

Here are some still images from the movie:

Jumper in Dubai

Jumper in Dubai

Jumper in Dubai

Jumper in Dubai


The Burj would be five miles BEHIND the camera in the last shot.

Still, it's cool. Not quite James Bond, though ...
 
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At June 19, 2008 4:20 PM, Blogger Tuan

bampf..... really? The sound effect you decided on was bampf. Who thinks teleportation sounds like that? Just you my friend, just you........hehe. I wonder how many of the readers don't know?

 

At June 19, 2008 5:16 PM, Blogger Josh

But apparently I spelled it wrong?

So says wikipedia: Bamf.

So by mis-quoting a comic book reference does that make kinda cool or totally, 100% lame?

 

At June 19, 2008 6:27 PM, Blogger Tuan

Huh, well I think that a comic book reference anytime makes you lame mis-quote or not. But I think the WIKI is wrong, I will have to look it up in the source and get back to you.

 

At June 19, 2008 6:57 PM, Blogger Josh

For the record (in case any of you care) "bampf" is apparently the old way of writing Nightcrawler's teleport sound.

So he and I? Just old school.

 

At June 19, 2008 7:21 PM, Blogger Wilfred

I watched the movie on sunday and I noticed that part.....I think that running scene was shot on a green screen....in fact I did something like that for one of my practices....some shots in The Kingdom were shot in Abu Dhabi.

 

At June 20, 2008 10:52 AM, Blogger nzm

Plus, in that last shot, the Burj is shown to be south of the Jumeirah Beach Residence when it's actually north of it - and so far away that you wouldn't be able to see it on a dust/smog day!

 


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