Orson Welles bemoaned how the explosion in his adaptation of the Trial could interpreted as an allusion to a nuclear explosion—“because I hate symbolism”. He explained they tried all afternoon to film an explosion that wasn’t mushroomy and failed, he finally relented “all right, there’s going to be symbolism”. While the Trial was shot in France, I don’t have to hand where the second unit explosion photography was done and the ambient humidity there...
(I checked, the explosion at the start of Touch of Evil isn’t really an explosion: it cuts to a flaming car chassis bumping down on the ground, follow by a crash zoom)
Orson Welles bemoaned how the explosion in his adaptation of the Trial could interpreted as an allusion to a nuclear explosion—“because I hate symbolism”. He explained they tried all afternoon to film an explosion that wasn’t mushroomy and failed, he finally relented “all right, there’s going to be symbolism”. While the Trial was shot in France, I don’t have to hand where the second unit explosion photography was done and the ambient humidity there...
(I checked, the explosion at the start of Touch of Evil isn’t really an explosion: it cuts to a flaming car chassis bumping down on the ground, follow by a crash zoom)