“I remember saying to my agent: ‘If I can deliver the finale—where the whale leaps to freedom—we’ve got a movie,’” Simon Wincer, director of 'Free Willy,' said.
, when the titular whale makes a big, inspiring jump to freedom. As with most Hollywood movie moments, however, the moment was far less sentimental behind the scenes. In fact, it required a rocket launcher.will celebrate its 30th anniversary on July 16. In a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made, director Simon Wincer told, “I remember saying to my agent: ‘If I can deliver the finale—where the whale leaps to freedom—we’ve got a movie.
Wincer noted that it took several meetings to determine “how the hell we were going to do it. It was the early days of CGI, so we shot at high tide in a small harbour—and literally built a rocket launcher with an animatronic whale on it. It would fly out of the water and come to a stop then CGI would take over.”: “At high tide, we basically built a rocket-launcher and we put a full size whale on this rocket launcher and we fired the bloody thing,” he said.
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