Steven Spielberg

Yeah, how did they do that?

I mean, how did they create weightlessness when he had to back –

He had to back the rover backwards with the exploding bolt door against the pod bay.

And then he had to get... He had to basically hold his breath, blow up the... First of all, he mechanically manually opened the pod bay doors because Hal wouldn't do it.

And then he had to turn the entire pod around.

He had to back the pod up to the entryway.

And he had to...

wait for the detonation.

And when it occurred, he blew toward camera completely weightless.

And what I didn't realize until much later was he was on a wire, but the wire was coming from the camera.

Right.

Because they didn't have wire removal.

They didn't have digital wire removal in those days.

Before digital wire removal, we just put – the special effects guys would put a little Vaseline blur where the wire was to make it harder for the audience to see the wires.

Films like War of the Worlds, the George Powell film, you see the wires on the triangular –

Martian ships.

But in this case, because the wire came right from the nodal point of the lens, almost right to the side of the lens, it looked like he was completely weightless and bouncing around like on a bungee inside that place.

And when Stanley built an entire set, the set turned 360, but the actors just walked.

That's how she does it.

They actually rotated the entire set.