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Many Hands Make Martian Memories
by Ron Magid
The ad

campaign for Total Recall
proclaims "They stole his mind
he wants it back!" The
could be said for visual ef¬

-now

same

fects supervisor Eric Brevig, ef¬
fects director of photography
Alex Funke and their dozens of
overworked acolytes at Dream
so many months of
never before seen ef¬

Quest. After

designing

fects to capture director Paul
Verhoeven's epic vision of Mars,
Dream Quest's effects artists
must feel as if their minds are no

longer their

own.

Verhoeven

is used to

getting the most out of his effects
crews by taxing their talents to

major effects studios, and in ev¬
ery department at Dream Quest,
Brevig is quick to point out that
"This is one of the largest projects
I have ever supervised." Alex
Funke began his career shooting
TV specials with Stephen Burum,
ASC then joined designer Char¬
les Eames for 12 years, before
beginning his visual effects career
at Apogee on the pilot film of
Battlestar Galactica. Last year he
supervised the miniature photog¬
raphy for Academy award
winning The Abyss.

that atti¬

An alien civilization has

tude more evident than on Total
Recall. Brevig had supervised Big

condensed a lot of air and stored
it in the center of the planet Mars,

American

July 1990

the

54

Business and Scrooged at Dream
Quest, and Captain Eo at Disney.
Though he has worked at several

max.

Nowhere

was

Cinematographer

which is

now home to a
mining
colony whose principal import is
oxygen. This is the dilemma of
Total Recall's storyline. Naturally,

the man who sells the miners
their air, the villainous Cohaagen,
wants to

keep the inhabitants
ignorant of the idea that there is
an entire artificial
atmosphere
waiting to be unleashed. Quaid
(Arnold Schwarzenegger) knows
how to liberate the atmosphere
but the villains have erased his

memory. His quest is to regain
his lost memories, free Mars of

Cohaagen's totalitarian control,
then turn the planet into a para¬
dise where one can actually
outside and breathe.

walk

Since Total Recall is al¬
most

entirely set

on

Mars, the



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