U2 3D (2008) on Netflix
G20081h 25mDocumentaryMusic
U2 performs in Buenos Aires on the Vertigo Tour, filmed in 3D with up to eighteen cameras at once. Footage comes from shows across Latin America and Australia.
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U2 takes the stage before a crowd in Buenos Aires, and the concert is presented in 3D. Fourteen songs make the final cut, among them material from the album the Vertigo Tour supported. The band's LED display carries images throughout the set, and some songs come with political and social statements: religious symbols spell out "coexista" during "Sunday Bloody Sunday", and a narrator recites a passage from the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights while "Miss Sarajevo" is played. Cameras covered seven concerts in Latin America and two in Australia, with as many as eighteen 3D cameras on nine rigs; U2 wore the same clothes each night so the shows could be edited together. It was the earliest live-action feature made digitally in 3D.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about U2 3D (2008)
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- U2 3D became the first live-action film to be shot, posted and exhibited entirely in 3D, the first live-action digital 3D film, and the first 3D concert film.
- During one of the concerts, a security guard tossed buckets of water onto the audience and destroyed one of the 3D cameras; the crew then waterproofed the remaining cameras.
- Before the Buenos Aires concerts, U2 played a 10-song set with no audience so the crew could capture close-ups with a wide-angle lens; director Catherine Owens called it the "phantom shoot".
- Because several concerts were edited together into one performance, U2 had to wear the same clothes every night to maintain continuity.
- The film used 18 Sony CineAlta cameras mounted two to a rig, and its Zeiss digital zoom lenses made U2 3D the first 3D film shot with a zoom lens.
- Shot in high-definition video, U2 3D used nearly 20 megabytes of data per frame, and the entire film took up almost a petabyte of storage.
- U2 3D inspired rock band Muse to raise the production values of their 2013 release Live at Rome Olympic Stadium, which became the first concert film shot in 4K resolution.
- U2 did not want to make another concert film, and bassist Adam Clayton said Catherine Owens "pushed it down [their] throats"; after seeing the 3D test shots, Bono convinced his bandmates to commit.
