Raiders of the Lost Ark: Toht (Ronald Lacey)

Comments for death : Raiders of the Lost Ark: Toht (Ronald Lacey).

Any pics?

Here's one:



Loved the gargling sound. Very gruesome.

I loved the special effects. That kind of death is gory.

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> Any pics?

I submitted a few, along with Dietrich's imploding head.

Yes, Kooshmeister has graciously sent in a few great screen grabs for this and a few other deaths too (many thanks!) and i will look to add them in the coming days.

Some Trivia:
The effect was achieved by sculpting muscles and layers onto a skull, made out of dental algin (used to take casts out of teeth). Using a heat lamp, they heated the sculpting. They shot at one-frame-per-second, so when it plays back, it appears to melt. SFX supervisor Richard Edlund has the skull, which is the only thing left.

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I think the thing that easily gives away the fact that this footage was sped up to look like Toht was melting fast was that his glasses slope off his nose slowly and then, all of a sudden, slip of his melting face so fast it looks like they jumped from his face to below his chin.

i wish the bad guys would win in the films (unless there gang members or rebals) this efect is realy cool i wish it would hapen to ja ja binks or the charicters in whinny the pooh APART from Christifer Robin (thats just wrong) what i meen is i wish the good guy in films would get it, welll some of them but not the cool ones such as Police academyand i certanetely DON'T want to sea children get hurt. I liked the first film in Indiana Jhones & the 3rd but the temple of doom STANK but the others are action packed and funny, indiana johnes is wornderful. I like a good bad guy myself aslong as it not some thuggish TROGLODITE. i think special afects like this are so good the only good computer afects are those in tron. it is important to use real afects in a film such as building up a wax dummy layer by layer.

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i wish the bad guys would win in the films (unless there gang members or rebals)

Which kind of eliminates almost every kind of villain. Most bad guys are "rebels" in the sense that as criminals they're going against the laws of the land.

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this efect is realy cool i wish it would hapen to ja ja binks or the charicters in whinny the pooh APART from Christifer Robin (thats just wrong)

Why? Because he's a kid? But you wouldn't have a problem seeing the equally young Roo melting gruesomely...

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what i meen is i wish the good guy in films would get it

Good guys die a lot in movies. Just not main good guys very often.

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