Sneaky CGI, unexpected dubbing, and other times movie scenes secretly tricked you.
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00:00Learning about precisely how these masterful filmmakers successfully pulled the wool over
00:05your eyes doesn't take anything away from the flick in question.
00:09It simply makes you respect and admire the wonders of movie magic that little bit more.
00:14So without further ado, let's dive into more of those times films brilliantly deceived
00:19you without you even noticing.
00:22Because I am Gareth here from WhatCulture.com, and here are 10 more movie scenes you didn't
00:27realise were tricking you.
00:2910.
00:30The CGI was strong with one unexpected Anakin shot.
00:33Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith It's been well documented how each and every
00:38clone trooper seen in the Star Wars prequel trilogy was entirely CGI.
00:42However, what you may not have realised is that a certain fallen Jedi also wandered over
00:47to the digital side for one particularly iconic scene.
00:52As revealed by Juan Luis Sanchez on X, one of the digital artists who worked on both
00:57Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, his time on that latter film saw him having
01:01to create simulations for one specific Order 66 moment.
01:06According to Sanchez, Hayden Christensen wasn't actually on screen for the overhead shot of
01:11Anakin Skywalker marching into the Jedi Temple with the 501st Legion.
01:15Instead, the digital wizard simmed the shot, with it only taking a grand total of one or
01:21two takes to nail the look off the CGI Darth Vader's cloak, naturally moving as he strutted
01:27across the screen.
01:28And you'll never watch it the same way again.
01:309.
01:31The Terminator was using a prop gun for that trick, Terminator 2 Judgment Day
01:36Trying to do Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 Judgment Day spin reload move with your
01:42usual shotgun would be pretty damn difficult due to how small the lever typically is.
01:47So a modified prop with a bigger lever was actually designed especially for the iconic
01:52reloading sequences, secretly tricking you into believing that the T-800 was pulling
01:57off this move with your standard fake shotgun when firing at the sinister T-1000.
02:03According to the film's director's commentary though, there was one occasion when the multiple-time
02:08Mr. Olympia accidentally picked up the wrong version of the prop shotgun and went for one
02:12of his trademark spins.
02:14With this one having a smaller lever than what he was used to, the big lad who had already
02:18ripped away the skin on his hands due to all of his shotgun spinning practice got his
02:23fingers caught, and the weight of the weapon snapping back on his hand nearly broke it.
02:28His hand, not the weapon.
02:29Even the most effective big screen tricks come at a painful price sometimes.
02:33Now I've got a quick question for you, what's the coolest moment in an action movie of all
02:38time?
02:39Is it this spinning shotgun stuff or something else?
02:41Let me know in the comment section down below.
02:438.
02:44Mary Poppins Bathroom Dip Wasn't CGI in Mary Poppins Returns
02:48It would have likely been a whole lot easier to simply chuck a digital Emily Blunt into
02:52a bubble bath and have her magically disappear into the suds.
02:56Where's the fun in that though?
02:58Instead of heading down the CGI route then, the creative special effects squad working
03:02on Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns decided to actually install a bath slide for the Can
03:08You Imagine That number.
03:10This allowed the actors to legitimately shoot into the bubbles, before arriving in a space
03:14underneath the set for the moment involving Poppins and co diving into an underwater world
03:19in the flick.
03:20It's such a slick and well-executed piece of movie magic, there likely wasn't a single
03:25soul in theatres around the world who assumed this was anything other than another piece
03:29of CGI wizardry in the moment.
03:31But sometimes all you need is a giant slide, a ton of bubbles, and some committed thespians
03:36to realise a magical moment audiences didn't even know was fooling them.
03:417.
03:42Ben Affleck's voice was dubbed over – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
03:46One of the eventual Batman's earliest roles actually came in 1992's Buffy the Vampire
03:51Slayer flick, that landed on screens before the eventual hit series of the same name.
03:56Here, the future Good Will Hunting star and writer played the part of a basketball player.
04:02Given the one line of Ticket Man when a supernatural member of the opposition wandered in front
04:07of him.
04:08And while you may have spotted this early Ben Affleck appearance during a random watch
04:11of the early 90s horror comedy, you likely didn't notice the fact that this wasn't
04:15actually the actor's voice in the finished article.
04:18Whilst chatting with James Corden on The Late Late Show, the star explained how he felt
04:22he did well with his few words in the film on the day.
04:26But the minute he sat down to watch the movie in theatres, he soon realised the director
04:30had gotten someone else to dub over his line.
04:33Likely because he just didn't enjoy what he brought to the table.
04:36This particular dubbing trick probably got past just about every person on the planet.
04:41Except a poor young Affleck sitting down to take in his big moment, of course.
04:46Poor guy.
04:476.
04:48The God of Thunder's mighty CGI patch – Thor Ragnarok Slash Avengers Infinity War
04:53During the events of Taika Waititi's colourful hit, Thor Ragnarok, the God of Thunder himself
04:57loses an eye as he clashes with his goddess of death sister, Hela.
05:02From there, and for much of the epic that was the Russo Brothers' Avengers Infinity
05:05War, Thor can be found wearing a pretty cool eye patch as he interacts with the likes of
05:09the Mad Titan and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
05:12The patch looks so legit throughout those aforementioned MCU flicks, fans didn't have
05:17any reason to believe this wasn't a practical eye cover attached to Chris Hemsworth's
05:21face.
05:22The Australian sensation would reveal to CinemaBlend in the lead up to that third Avengers team
05:26however, that this patch was actually a fully digital piece of protection.
05:30That's right, after attempting to move around sets with a practical version of the item,
05:35the fact it kept falling off resulted in the Ragnarok team going for a CGI alternative
05:39instead.
05:40And the visual effects team behind the CGI patch did such a remarkable job, it's still
05:45tough to accept the fact this item of clothing wasn't actually present on set during so
05:50many Thor scenes.
05:525.
05:53The first perspective was used to drop a human elf into class.
05:56Elf.
05:57Arguably one of the most iconic moments to tumble out of Jon Favreau's Christmas Delight
06:01Elf came early on.
06:03During one of the first moments, the titular enthusiastic figure popped up on screen.
06:07Though you may have initially presumed so, the director didn't just have Will Ferrell
06:11placed into the scene, involving the significantly larger buddy learning some elf lessons with
06:15his much smaller pals via some digital technology.
06:19Ferrell actually decided to use one of the oldest movie magic tricks in the book.
06:23As the director revealed to Empire, forced perspective was used to convince audiences
06:27into thinking a massive buddy was squeezed into a desk beside his classmates.
06:32In reality, Ferrell was actually a few metres closer to the camera than the rest of his
06:36fellow actors, with the folks behind the equipment choosing specific angles to help give off
06:41the illusion of Buddy towering over everyone else in the room.
06:44This wasn't a Christmas miracle, folks.
06:47It was just good old-fashioned and clever filmmaking.
06:494.
06:50Fred is Secretly Played by a Mind to Mess With Your Head – I Am Legend
06:55In one of the more unsettling scenes that go down in 2007's adaptation of Richard
07:00Matheson's I Am Legend novel, Dr. Robert Neville suddenly and surprisingly catches
07:04his mannequin pal Fred stood outside of Grand Central Station.
07:09But it's the moment the camera lingers on Fred for the first time here that really left
07:13audiences questioning what they were watching.
07:16At a glance, it seems as though the filmmakers are perhaps just tricking you into believing
07:19the inanimate object's head only looks like it's moving due to the bobbing camera movements.
07:24However, the team did actually use a real-life mind to play the mannequin for this ever-so-subtle
07:29head turn, showing how Robert was likely just hallucinating the action that forced him to
07:34wander closer to what was actually a trap set by the Darkseekers.
07:38It's such a sneaky and masterfully executed trick of sorts, folks are likely still double-taking
07:43the creepy and seemingly impossible moment during a re-watch to this day.
07:48Part of the Burj Khalifa moment was shot in Vancouver, Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
07:54Tom Cruise definitely went for a ridiculous climb up the Burj Khalifa during the making
07:58of Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
08:00Yep, that did happen.
08:01However, there was actually one specific moment during this thrilling Ethan Hunt stunt that
08:06required an easily missed piece of CGI.
08:09Now sure, the various wires used to keep the Megastar from plummeting to the Dubai ground
08:14were also obviously erased thanks to some digital intervention, but there's also one
08:18particular shot as Ethan senses an incoming sandstorm, which would have actually been
08:22physically impossible to achieve on the real building and needed CGI assistance.
08:28When the camera pans around from in front of Cruise's face to behind it as the storm
08:31closes in, ILM VFX artist Todd Vaziri, who worked on the flick, told Corridor Crew this
08:37moment is actually in Vancouver.
08:40Cruise was 20 feet in the air, some of the real Vancouver sky is present, and the space
08:45the star eventually looks at is all blue screen.
08:48The window behind him was also removed as the camera swings around to get that all-important
08:53over-the-shoulder shot of TC.
08:55But again, he did climb that building, baby.
08:582.
08:59An ambulance was flipped using an old-school trick, the Creator
09:03Gareth Edwards used a superb trick when he found himself needing to flip an ambulance
09:07during this year's sci-fi epic The Creator.
09:10Rather than have his actors be legitimately flipped about as the vehicle was turned practically,
09:15or use CGI to throw in some digital doubles for the moment, the film's cinematographer
09:19Oren Soffer revealed Edwards' far simpler approach to Collider.
09:23Already happy with the exterior shots of the ambulance they had in the can, Edwards knew
09:27they just needed a brief shot that tricked audiences into thinking the actors were being
09:32flipped within the vehicle.
09:34So the director simply had his stars hop into the parked outside ambulance, and after a
09:38three-second countdown Edwards rotated the camera 90 degrees whilst the actors threw
09:43themselves around the space.
09:45The prop department even helped out by throwing up random objects found in the ambulance too.
09:50And just like that, the quick shot they needed was born.
09:531.
09:54The scenery you see in Reflections were actually lights, knives out
09:57To get around the unintentional sight of lighting equipment in the glasses of characters like
10:01Jamie Lee Curtis' Linda Drysdale in Rian Johnson's first Magnificent Knives Out mystery,
10:07one of the film's grips had a marvellous idea.
10:10As the film's cinematographer Steve Yedlin would eventually note on X, the scenes involving
10:14folks in glasses being interviewed by some police detectives actually boasted some genius
10:20art from key grip Matt Mania.
10:22In order to disguise the aforementioned lighting equipment being used for the conversation,
10:26Mania sculpted Matt to turn the equipment into what looked like scenery that fit the
10:30scene in question.
10:32You may have thought you were just catching the odd reflection of some household objects
10:36also in the room Curtis and co were shooting in, but you were actually secretly being tricked
10:40by some cleverly disguised lighting.
10:43You love to see it.
10:44Well, sort of see it.
10:45You get what I mean.
10:46And that's our list!
10:47Know of any other movie scenes people didn't realise were tricking them?
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