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be a great chance to see them cooler
than we've seen them in the rest of the
movie already," says Ramsey. "This is
their ultimate expression in their belief
of what was behind them. It's about
a fight, but it's also about this team
of characters who are kind of getting
their groove back and becoming who
they were meant to be."
Guardians also featured a showdown
between the Boogeyman Pitch and the
gentle Sandman that involved a herd
of nightmare horses and eventually
sent Sandman up into the sky. With
the heavens as their backdrop, Pitch
and Sandman duke it out as a helpless
Jack Frost tries to pull off a rescue.
"A lot of that became about lighting,
about how do we work with the
clouds to create this sort of canyon
or mountain kind of atmosphere
where they're fighting," Ramsey says,
"and then to communicate the scale
without losing the intensity of the
moment. So it's not just us watching
tiny figures floating around in the
air throwing stuff at each other. He's
reacting, and hopefully we're reacting
along with him."
Images
courtesy
of
DreamWorks
Animation/NBCUniversal.
