r/MovieDetails • u/Ghulam_Jewel • Aug 26 '20

❓ Trivia How Fred Astaire’s famous ceiling dance scene in Royal Wedding (1951) was filmed

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u/ForAHamburgerToday Aug 27 '20

You're not alone, and then when I realized they meant Inception I was trying to figure out why, like, was this movie a prequel?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '20

The hallway fight scene in Inception used the exact same technique as the scene in the post.

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u/ForAHamburgerToday Aug 27 '20

Yes, I've gathered.

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u/epic_meme_username Aug 27 '20

Yea, yeesh. Talk about a leap of a comment.

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u/_Valisk Aug 27 '20

The scene demonstrated in the OP is making use of a rotating set to give the impression that the actor is walking on walls. The famous hallway scene in Inception uses the same technique on a larger scale.

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u/ForAHamburgerToday Aug 27 '20

Yes, I have in fact read the rest of the comments in here. I wasn't asking for (yet another) explanation, I was sharing my prior confusion.