Oh, as an addendum, I watched the backlot vid again to admire the technical aspects of it (I never said that greenscreen tech wasn't cool) and figured out from the comments that some people are more than a little shaken to the core at the thought that what they were seeing wasn't real, and all made up in a computer.
Folks, NOTHING you see on film is 100% "real."
What the heck is real anyway, when your own two eyes can play tricks on you from time to time?
The camera angles are picked by the director and a (hopefully experienced) cameraman's eye. The way they spin a story is media/writerly tricks. Props and set designers have been with us since the beginning of movies, and so have analog special effects like pyrotechnics and tricksy camera perspective shots. Actors are replaced by stuntmen. Why not a backdrop?
It's not as if movie-makers haven't ever PAINTED a backdrop before and used it in lieu of a real one. Even if you film on location, stuff is cordoned off, the crowd you see isn't a real crowd, they are called extras.
Is it any less real if someone yanks a stuntman up on a wire, or has the background move digitally downward as the real actor just raises his hands over his head to fly?
It is the illusion of reality that movies are after. The suspension of your disbelief long enough to accept the story they are telling and experience some kind of emotion.
And oh btw, those sure as hell aren't real guns either. :)
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