148 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
148 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- There are several books in the container that shelters Khan's followers on
Ceti Alpha VI. Two of the titles are ``Moby Dick'' and ``King Lear'', and
a lot of Khan's lines are directly taken from those books.
In particular, the final monologue of Khan is identical to the last words
of Captain Ahab from Melville's book.
- The ``Genesis'' sequence called for a long and massive explosion. ILM rented
the Cow Palace in San Francisco for the effect. They covered the ceiling
with a black cloth and placed the camera on the floor looking up at it. The
explosion would occur directly above the camera so the fall-out would appear
to rush directly towards the point of view. A special high-speed camera
was constructed. One of it's components was a spinning prism, which bent the
image onto the film as it rushed past. This increased exposure time without
having to slow the frame rate. The camera ran at 2,500 frames per second,
which meant that the 0:01.20 long explosion would appear to take 1:40.
- Director 'Nicholas Meyer' (qv) envisioned the film as the ultimate extension
of Star Trek creator 'Gene Roddenberry' (qv)'s idea of ``Horatio Hornblower
in space''. Therefore, prior to filming he had the cast watch
"Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)" for inspiration.
- When Spock and Savik speak to each other in Vulcan, the actors
actually spoke in English, and then sound people created the Vulcan
words to match the movements of the actors' mouths.
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