The CGI deer ...


How bad was that.

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That was a real deer, it says so in the trivia:
The "deer scene" was filmed with Becca, the White-Tailed Deer at the Western North Carolina Nature Center. Becca's trainer/caretaker is award-winning singer/songwriter, Ben Wilson.

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It looks fake because it was filmed separately on a green-screen and inserted in that scene, and the studio lighting doesn't quite match the outdoor lighting, and it also has no shadow, so it doesn't fit with the scene and looks artificial.

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Thanks, it did look artificial

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I don't believe it. It looked too horrible.

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Oh man. That was brutal. Took me right out of the movie. I mean, how hard is it for a major film production to get some footage of a real goddamn deer, and then splice that into the scene through effects. As it was, the scene was embarrassingly terrible-looking.

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Lol. That was exactly what they did.

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Somehow that's even worse. Making a real deer look like CGI is almost impressively terrible

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Ha! So true.

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Maybe there can be a Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Special Edition where they fix that deer.

Jokes aside, it did look out of place. It's a good scene (the deer reminded her of her daughter) but it did seem like that deer arrived via 1996 special effects.

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It's not a real deer, but the imagination of the mom character (Mildred.) She's so stressed she hallucinates. So it looks real (shot using real deer, not CGI) but has no shadow (because it's only in her head.)

Also note the scene with the talking slippers.

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I'm going with your conclusion.

You thought the slippers were enhanced? Maybe made to look more like they were talking?

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No, I mean the talking slippers scene depicts the mental state of Mildred. She's so lonely she talks to slippers, as Tom Hanks to Wilson.

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