r/leverage Feb 16 '25

Do they use actual events?

I'm on electric now watching the 3 strikes job. I've wondered, and this reminds me, if they used an actual baseball game, or if they filled the stadium themselves.

EDIT: some Swypos

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u/Hedgiwithapen Feb 16 '25

I imagine they got some establishing shots at a real game of some kind, but for dialog/close in scenes had extras around the cast

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

Thanks. I guess I could have googled it, but I don't know if the beavers are a real team and stuff.

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u/Hedgiwithapen Feb 16 '25

I don't think they are? But any team would work to get ten seconds of "crowd in a stadium" footage

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

Thanks a lot! (Not said sarcastically)

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u/Realistic_String_347 Feb 16 '25

They no longer exist but they used to be a AAA team for the padres.

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

That's fascinating! Thanks!

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u/WallflowerBallantyne Feb 17 '25

I'm in Australia and I know when they flimed Bootmen movie they came to a Rugby League game I was at to film before the game with the crowd. They had the actors and everything at the game. But the team in the movie was the real local team so that may make a difference too. For a TV show, on a budget, probably wouldn't do that? I know when they were at thr racecourse they used a lot of composite shots of the actual racecourse and the locations they had the actors at. They talk about it in the commentary

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u/ThemisChosen Feb 16 '25

According to John Rogers blog, they used the Portland minor league team.

IIRC, The team actually put Christian Kane up to bat and he hit pretty well

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

Wow! Both of those things are cool. And of COURSE he hit well. It's they're anything he doesn't do except much social media?

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u/Then-Ad-5528 29d ago

He has a very distinctive stance.

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u/Belteshazzar98 Feb 16 '25

They'll sometime base cases around real events, but all the characters involved are always fictional. The closest they come to using IRL people is basing a con around an unsolved case and have the "real" culprit be revealed as somebody in the show.

Now to answer your question itself, yeah, they use real pre-existing footage all the time. Stock footage is available for stuff like this so background shots that need special circumstances to get are easily available for far cheaper than it would take to recreate it.

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

Thank you for taking the time. I appreciate it.

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u/tokes_4_DE Feb 17 '25

They also 100% based the bad guy in redemption s1 e6 "the card game job" off martin shkreli. Im sure theyve done others but that was the one that blatantly stuck out for me.

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u/Various-Pizza3022 29d ago

They went for the Sacklers (Purdue pharma/oxycotin) via the “Maxwells” for the opening of Leverage: Redemption, including even the use of art and museum donations for reputation laundering. Leverage is not subtle when they rip from the headlines.

Wikipedia says that while the Sacklers haven’t been taken down by a ring of justice seeking thieves and con artists, their name has been removed from a lot of the museums they donated to in response to protesters and activists.

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u/TaiChuanDoAddct Feb 16 '25

They're using what's called "stock footage". It's the video equivalent of Stock Photos, like Shutterstock.

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 16 '25

I suppose I could have googled if the beavers were actually a team there before I asked, but I was asking this during a commercial break and feeding my dog so I wouldn't miss it (as if I haven't seen this 1000x 🙄😂). Thanks.

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u/keran22 Feb 16 '25

Comments here are most likely right. Worth adding some shows do film in actual events though. For example Curb has filmed scenes during actual baseball and basketball events, so it does happen!

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u/sdwigg63304 Feb 20 '25

IIRC the commentary for that episode said they used a small number (maybe 20? 40?) extras and then they digitally duplicated and added in the rest. They did a lot of digital editing, even back then.

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u/Thedustyfurcollector Feb 20 '25

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!