Awesome Courtney Upshaw Commercial

**HoustonRaven** · 11-10-2012, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by PurpleApocalypse37

You are extremely stubborn and when someone else actually knows what they're talking about, you continue with your hunches and gut feelings as if they hold just as much water.

Now obviously he didn't lift it, but because the team would not stand for him risking injury for a commercial.

And the personal attack on me was for what reason exactly?

Lemme give you some advice. It's a message board. People debate things on message boards. Try and keep up.

**PerpetuallyBored74** · 11-11-2012, 01:58 AM

I don't see that company spending money on CGI for a YouTube commercial, especially for a product that isn't targeted for mainstream consumers. Even if it's also being shown on TV, still...if it's CGI, then why bother with the duct tape on the windshield?

No, it's probably real, but they removed the engine block and whatever else to reduce the weight.

**londonraven** · 11-11-2012, 04:49 AM

I think the key is Upshaw has no spotters for this stunt/advert

If the No1 draft pick rookie gets injured on a commercial the team would go crazy, it's surely in his contract not to anything that jeopardising his ability to play ball.

Remember sizzle getting injured and ppl kicking off thinking he may have been playing basketball(!) imagine if the story was he may have been shooting an advert!

**ActualSpamBot** · 11-11-2012, 05:27 AM

No CGI in this one, and the car is probably intact. The trick is you never see the whole car while it is in a position where Courtney would need to be doing some real lifting. The first flip only shows half the car, with Upshaw visible in the front passenger window. I'm sure the other 3 dudes lifting with him were just out of frame. Anytime Courtney moves the car on his own it is either pushing it over in a way that even a smallish woman could (from it's side to it's back for example.)

So yea... simple camera trickery.

**wickedsolo** · 11-11-2012, 08:34 AM

You can cut several hundred pounds by taking out seats, electronics, engine, tranny, brakes, rotors, steering column, and several other things.

You could probably get that particular car down to right around 1000lbs and possibly less.

While it is probable that the commercial was CGI, someone like Upshaw may actually be able to do that to a small skeleton car.

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**edtude** · 11-11-2012, 09:06 AM

Who the hell cares, the commercial was cool as shit and Upshaw is a beast who if he continues to improve will be another in a long line of steals that Ozzie has performed at draft time.

**Boulderraven** · 11-11-2012, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by edtude

Who the hell cares, the commercial was cool as shit and Upshaw is a beast who if he continues to improve will be another in a long line of steals that Ozzie has performed at draft time.

I agree. In time will go down as a very good draft pick.

**HoustonRaven** · 11-12-2012, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by ActualSpamBot

No CGI in this one, and the car is probably intact. The trick is you never see the whole car while it is in a position where Courtney would need to be doing some real lifting. The first flip only shows half the car, with Upshaw visible in the front passenger window. I'm sure the other 3 dudes lifting with him were just out of frame. Anytime Courtney moves the car on his own it is either pushing it over in a way that even a smallish woman could (from it's side to it's back for example.)

So yea... simple camera trickery.

I think you nailed it. I asked the director via Twitter and he said ....

@HoustonRaven @334Upshaw41 That's called 'movie magic' ... or commercial magic in this case. But the car wasn't stripped. Promise.

**RavenMadness** · 11-13-2012, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by HoustonRaven

I think you nailed it. I asked the director via Twitter and he said ....

@HoustonRaven @334Upshaw41 That's called 'movie magic' ... or commercial magic in this case. But the car wasn't stripped. Promise.

http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/...0-040f067b5fd4

**FearTheRaven** · 11-13-2012, 08:02 PM

It can be done.

**lobachevsky** · 11-13-2012, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by londonraven

I think the key is Upshaw has no spotters for this stunt/advert

If the No1 draft pick rookie gets injured on a commercial the team would go crazy, it's surely in his contract not to anything that jeopardising his ability to play ball.

Bingo.

Originally Posted by ActualSpamBot

No CGI in this one, and the car is probably intact. The trick is you never see the whole car while it is in a position where Courtney would need to be doing some real lifting. The first flip only shows half the car, with Upshaw visible in the front passenger window. I'm sure the other 3 dudes lifting with him were just out of frame. Anytime Courtney moves the car on his own it is either pushing it over in a way that even a smallish woman could (from it's side to it's back for example.)

So yea... simple camera trickery.

Double bingo.

**redmike34** · 11-13-2012, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by FearTheRaven

It can be done.

Actually, if I heard that right and the cars weighed 700 kilos (about 1550 lbs), then that proves HR's point--the car at ~2390 would be too much. Particularly as the Toyota in Upshaw's commercial would almost certainly have a lower center of gravity and therefore be harder to tip over. Thanks for the video though.

HR, I stand corrected.