20 Things You Didn't Know About Fight Club
18. Pitt Kind Of Worked With DiCaprio On The Film
Although this year’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is the first time Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio have acted together, it’s not quite the first time they’ve been in a film together.
In the scenes with Jack’s meditational cave towards the beginning of the movie - where he encounters the penguin he believes is his ‘power animal’ and then when Marla replaces the penguin - there’s a lot of icy breath. Needless to say, it wasn't really that cold: it was created by CG composites.
Blue Sky Studios, who worked on Fight Club, have multiple points of contact with VIFX, who worked on similar areas of CG manipulation for James Cameron’s Titanic, another 20th Century Fox movie: VIFX have been on record as suggesting that their work on Cameron’s movie provided them with “a library of generic breath elements” that they can use as a basis for other movies.
John Siczewicz was the digital artist for Fight Club, describing it like this:
After starting with those existing breath elements (from Titanic) we cut and pasted and dissolved until we had some animated breath that worked with the wind action within this ice tunnel. Since either the camera or the actor was in motion for all of these shots, I had to track in the origin point for each breath. Once these swirly breaths blended in, the whole scene dropped sixty degrees.
So there you have it: that’s not Edward Norton's breath. That’s the ghostly huffing of another Jack, puffed out from beyond the grave.