About a year and a half ago I spent a chilly, rainy winter afternoon on an oil rig in the middle of a parking lot in Vancouver. There wasn't any actual oil there: the rig had . been built from scratch for a scene in Man of Steel (in theaters June 14), the new Superman movie directed by Zack Snyder, who also made 300 and Watchmen (and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, a very watchable movie for kids). The scene Snyder was filming called for the oil rig to be on fire, so it had been fitted with hundreds of little propane torches that could be lit on cue, safely, all over the walls and ceiling. That made it pleasantly warm and steamy inside, though some of the crew wore masks to cope with the propane fumes.
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