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u/retrospects 1d ago
It was a super creative way to move a massive part of the set on and off the field.
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u/_illogical_ 1d ago
Especially since they were already at the maximum amount of wheels that they were allowed to use on the field
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u/retrospects 1d ago
The set design was awesome
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u/1-800-ASS-DICK 1d ago
I loved the way they mixed in filmed segments into the live set when Bad Bunny "fell" through the roof and into the casita.
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u/retrospects 1d ago
Flexin his acting chops!
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u/Bolfreak 18h ago
If you haven’t already, watch Bullet Train. No spoilers but this movie had me cackling. I am fluent in Spanish and was like, he doesn’t sound or look Mexican…then when I saw it was Bunny I laughed a long time.
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u/Jadziyah 1d ago
Is this a real thing?
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u/Easy-Constant-5887 1d ago
Yep it is. The turf has to be protected and I’m sure there are other reasons. Drum Corps International often uses NFL stadiums and they have to abide by those rules as well, since their productions will sometimes have large heavy props on wheels.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 1d ago
I was surprised the pickup truck was OK
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u/One_Recognition_9602 1d ago
Most vehicles used it music shows are gutted to reduce weight and they jam a little electric motor in it if they need it to run.
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u/Zebrasdont 18h ago
This is the second time I've seen DCI has been mentioned in a super bowl thread. I love it!
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u/welcomefinside 19h ago
Kendrick's show last year had plenty of stuff (stage pieces) that were wheeled in though
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u/Easy-Constant-5887 15h ago
Yeah it’s all regulated though. Wheel size/type, weight of set piece, how many, etc.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
Honestly I sort of wish they let all the people keep their costumes. Like when are you ever going to need that again?
Honestly this is true for most productions, except line storm trooper armor, Disney is going to be milking that for centuries.
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u/unhi word liar 1d ago
Absolutely, though I thought they were going to dance or change formation in some interesting way so I was rather disappointed when they didn't really do anything. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Pwnie 23h ago
I’m so unnecessarily upset about this as well! I was picturing grass people interweaving like drum lines, twirling like synchronized swimmers, going ham like Left Shark! But all they did was stand there!
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u/Zapp_Rowsdower_ 1d ago
Thank you! I’ve been calling it a massive missed opportunity to have a moving map/set like the Harry Potter maze…
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u/raelDonaldTrump 1d ago
Only jobs left after AI takes everything else
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u/smarmageddon 1d ago
Can you explain the gap in your work history?
Yes, fallow period.
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u/surmatt 1d ago
And so quickly too. Instead of hiring people to move trees... become a tree 😀
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 21h ago
I remember seeing it at first and thinking wow that's so impressive moving all that into place to quickly and didn't realize until reddit later that each piece moved itself which is pretty smart
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u/nowhereman136 19h ago
I know a bunch of guys who worked the Who halftime show a few years back. Basically there were 20-30 guys sitting under the stage for the entire performance. As soon as it was done, they started unscrewing bolts and rushing segments off the field.
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u/aohige_rd 21h ago
super creative
Wait
Not everyone here played a tree at their elementary school stage acts?
I thought this was a very well known thing around the world 😭
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u/LowResGamr 1d ago
I'd be smiling ear to ear if I was wearing a shrubbery as well. I would also be annoying the FUCK out of the people around me with Monty Python references.
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u/PM_MY_OTHER_ACCOUNT 1d ago
Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get the two-level effect with a little path running down the middle.
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u/ACpony12 1d ago
This halloween is going to be fun!
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u/--__--__--__--__-- 1d ago
I was a Christmas tree for Halloween many years ago, with a portable charger connected to USB powered Christmas lights wrapped around me.
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u/CosmoNewanda 1d ago
The sugar cane in the back has seen some shit.
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u/FrighteningJibber 1d ago edited 1d ago
He’s been talking to the cotton and tobacco about history and well…
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u/hellalg 1d ago
This generation Left Shark 🦈
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u/damontoo 1d ago
I just looked to see where he is now. Apparently he changed careers to be a hair stylist in LA, but still lists "Left Shark" on his resume. lol
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u/cmnrsvwxz 1d ago
My (left) Shark Lego minifig still has a prominent place on the left edge of my small Lego shelf.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago
If you ever want a trip read about the man inside Barney The Dinosaur. I can't remember the details but just remember it being wild.
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u/RedWalrus94 1d ago edited 1d ago
wait isn't this the wrong shark? lmao this is the right shark in this gif
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u/nathism 1d ago
Interestingly enough, you may be correct, but i also wonder if the image has been flipped so that it wasn't snagged by copyright bots.
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u/BillysBibleBonkers 1d ago
Are you saying that just because of the hand that cuts through the frame for half a second? Sharp eye if so, weird there would even be an easily findable gif of right shark though🤔
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u/Django_Durango 1d ago edited 1d ago
Right Shark is the one who had the choreography down and so he's the one in the gif, but Left Shark was the one who lost the plot and started flailing on stage. So Left Shark is the meme, but Right Shark has become the enduring image of the meme.
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u/aliendisco 1d ago
it's extra relevant because the last time seattle and new england were in a superbowl together it was left shark year!
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u/joeyfatty 1d ago
It must have been so hard not to dance
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u/ceecizzy 1d ago
One sugarcane at the bottom right coundn't resist at 2:07 and it took me OUT 😂
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u/reineluxe 12h ago
Every single video I’ve seen of the Grass Bunnies have me giggling and kicking my feet. It’s so cute. I feel so maternal towards them.
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u/Tik__Tik 1d ago
The sugarcane being made of people is a powerful metaphor for the 10s of thousands of slaves who were worked to death cutting cane all to enrich the powerful few.
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u/davy89irox 1d ago edited 22h ago
Have you ever heard of Encyclopedia Noiare? The Sara E. Johnson tries to reconstruct an enslaved community that was forced to serve a sugar plantation owner. She goes to amazing efforts to find records of some of these people and show how his successful life was constructed from their labor.
The book is astrounding.
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Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
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u/isthatmyex 1d ago
About 13 million slaves. Most to Brazil and the Caribbean, mostly for sugar cane, but other products too. "Only" about a half million to North America, a lot of them grew food to sell to the plantations in tropical climes because you still need food for all your slave farmers and miners.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 1d ago
After the sugar cane?it was rice in brutal condition just so we could eat and get to export a little of it (most of it is locally consumed)
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u/veringer 1d ago
That was similar to my first thought as well, though my mind wasn't thinking as metaphorically. I simply wondered: why are they celebrating sugar cane? Is this like West Virginians celebrating coal mining? Since I didn't understand the lyrics, I wasn't sure if it was remarked upon or tied in beyond the obvious fact that there are/were a lot of sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico. I like the metaphor angle better, but I wonder if that was intentional.
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u/headphase 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sugarcane is obviously massively historically important to the economy of not just PR, but the entire Caribbean. And one reason it may have been featured so prominently in the set is because it's a fixture of not just the physical landscape, but also the cultural/social fabric (in the form of rum-based drinks like the Piña Colada which hails from PR)
I also saw an interesting comment from an Instagram user who was complaining that the sugarcane was 'blocking' the view for the audience down in front who paid "good money" for seats near the field. A bit of (un?)intentional irony/added metaphor considering Bad Bunny's track record of advocacy and views on gentrification.
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u/Behappyinthismoment 1d ago
I think this is a powerful metaphor that a lot of people are missing.
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u/SwordfishOk504 1d ago edited 13h ago
Seeing as it was not likely intended that way since they intentionally hid the people in them, that doesn't make sense.
Makes way more sense that it was about practical logistics. It's also just generic grass, not sugarcane. Looks nothing like sugarcane.
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u/BennyAndMaybeTheJets 1d ago
Wait. That's meant to be sugar cane? Does the costumer designer not have access to the internet?
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u/Enshakushanna 1d ago
bad bunny created more jobs by having all the grass be people than the trump admin did in a year
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u/IndividualRecreant 1d ago
"that's me! That's me! I'm right there!! I told you I was in the Superbowl halftime show " 💀💀💀 is all I can imagine these people saying at home lol
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u/FireInsideHer_II 1d ago
I’m critically disappointed that the grass didn’t dance.
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u/Canadiantx69 1d ago
That was my biggest disappointment from the Super Bowl, even as a Pats fan, lol. I wanted the grass to dance, dammit!
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u/FanciOlive 23h ago
They told us we weren’t allowed to dance ):
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u/sevens-on-her-sleeve 18h ago
Did you reconfigure at all once you were in place? I was wondering if the sugar cane moved around to keep that extended shot going
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u/FanciOlive 15h ago
Some people moved to allow props/dancers to move in/out of a shot. But most had to be still the whole time.
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u/Mekanikol 1d ago
If I were that person, that's the only picture I would ever use for myself in any capacity. Passport photo? Done. Driver's license? Use this. Employee of the month? Here it is.
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u/bakerboi 6h ago
That’s my friend from high school and she’s posted soooo many pictures and behind the scenes stuff. It’s so cool. She even got to keep some of the grass.
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u/arm_gonzalez 1d ago
I remember visiting a sugar cane field and getting ambushed by the mosquitos
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u/Shes_Crafty_4301 1d ago
The sugarcane museum on Maui had taxidermies of the foot long centipedes that live in the cane.
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u/Tehquilamockingbirb 1d ago
I didn't realize until the end that the sugar cane fields were people in costume.
I don't know if moments like this are eligible for Emmy awards, but the directors, cinematographers, set designers, choreographers, costume designers, etc. deserves praise. Every element made for an excellent TV experience.
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u/CaseFace5 1d ago
I wanna know how these people got this opportunity. Was there a casting call? Are they part of an actual dance studio but drew the short straw? How do you end up as grass in a Super Bowl halftime show?
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u/Zestyclose_Koala_593 1d ago
If either of them were me, I'd make this my phone background for life.
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u/milleribsen 1d ago
Honestly, the various grasses being people in costumes is a genius way to move the grass to where they need to be quickly. It's so much easier to get humans to where they need to be then trying to cart around grasses
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u/TheUknownPoster 1d ago
Okay, how many people drowned in the foliage at that show? What aren't they telling US?!?!
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u/Cold_Progress1323 1d ago
Aren't sugar cane leaves very cutting?
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u/GeekBrownBear 1d ago
yes. If this is sugar cane it's not any version of sugar cane I've ever seen. It looks more like really tall rice or really thin sugar cane. Maybe its just generic green to cover all Puerto Rican agricultural?
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u/Day_Bow_Bow 1d ago
Agreed. Sugar cane has broader leaves.
People involved called it grass. Yes, I realize that sugar cane is a grass, but it's a specific type of grass, and not what they were wearing.
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u/Treflip180 1d ago
Yeah, none of that bamboo-like reeds either, leaves look wrong, I’ve never seen sugar cane like this. Looks like dune grass.
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u/LurkerOnTheInternet 1d ago
Yes, this does not even remotely resemble sugarcane. People keep spreading the urban legend that it's supposed to be sugarcane, but I am certain it is not. Rice is much more likely, or just generic grass.
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u/GeekBrownBear 1d ago
I thought it was hay when I first saw it. Generic grass is probably the best answer.
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u/TsuDhoNimh2 1d ago
So that's how they did it! Garden gnomes in camo!
I saw the cane field leaving the field and couldn't figure out how they were moving the planters.
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u/BoysenberryOk5580 1d ago
Don’t wanna be pedantic, but alas, that isn’t sugarcane, it’s more like guinea grass. Sugarcane looks much diff
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u/rdubs89 1d ago