Home Alone: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Tarantula and the Wrangler
The shot where Kevin fires the BB gun directly at Daniel Stern's head as he pokes through the doggy door would have been easy to do in a post CGI age. The same guy also made the gold tooth that Harry has sparkle and the ghostly heads of Kevin's family. That was rotoscoping and progressive. Other traps were achieved in other low budget clever ways. Glass ornaments that Harry steps on were sugar glass designed to break in a way that doesn't break skin, although Stern did wear rubber feet for his barefoot scenes. Baccali Culkin put it on Daniel Stern's face, which they only had one take to film understandably. For years, it
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