Elf director Jon Favreau on how the hilarious story of Buddy wound up saving Christmas by filling New York City with holiday cheer
How did you create the North Pole scenes? There’s a lot stop-motion animated animals and the elf actors seem so much smaller than Will Ferrell.
The forced perspective is where you build two sets, one smaller than the other. They had recently used that technique forDarby O’Gill and the Little People When we had Will in the Lincoln Tunnel, the tunnel was open. Same thing with the 59th Street Bridge. Whenever he was out there in his suit, we’d hear screeches and fender-benders and lights smashing. People would be looking at him walking on the side and that would cause a few minor traffic accidents.
However, one of the stipulations was, we would have had to remove the Artie Lange scene, where Santa is revealed to be a fake, because their Santa has to be real. We had to think long and hard about it. We ended up filming it in the cafeteria of a mental hospital in Vancouver instead of Macy’s because we had to build our own version of it because we were unwilling to change the content. We ended up making it Gimbel’s. I felt that it tied in with.
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