This is the transformation of the guy going in from one scene to another and this one is the effect shot. This ended up in the windiest corner of the world. They say a good trick is when you fake someone into thinking one thing and then do the opposite. You know, by this time, they're thinking, "Wow, there's no CGI, everything is real," so you go and use it in the one place they're not expecting it. And it's for practical reasons only, because this is one of the windiest places in the world.

We built it to about twenty feet and we realised that the fabric was parachuting so heavily it couldn't be any bigger. But we actually used duplication, not CGI, so I thought that was fine. As long as the technology had been around for a hundred years I thought it was OK to do this trick. Whenever you ask people to point out the effects they'll always point to the blue city or here or there but they'll never point to the few I actually did as effect shots! This was just impossible to achieve and aesthetically doing it this way it looked exactly how I wanted it to.

I really did approach the effects in the film from the point of view of the time period the film is set in - the silent movie era. It was about what technology was available to them then. That's all I used. But look at the archive footage at the end - believe me, they didn't have unions back then, they used to kill these guys left, right and centre.