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 your eyes
00:06doesn'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 you without you even noticing.
00:21Because I am Gareth here from WhatCulture.com
00:24and here are 10 more movie scenes you didn't realise were tricking you.
00:28Number 10, the CGI was strong with one unexpected Anakin shot.
00:33Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith.
00:36It's been well documented how each and every clone trooper seen in the Star Wars prequel trilogy was entirely CGI.
00:43However, what you may not have realised is that a certain fallen Jedi also wandered over to the digital side
00:49for one particularly iconic scene.
00:52As revealed by Juan Luis Sanchez on X,
00:54one of the digital artists who worked on both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
00:59His time on that latter film saw him having to create simulations for one specific Order 66 moment.
01:06According to Sanchez, Hayden Christensen wasn't actually on screen for the overhead shot of Anakin Skywalker
01:12marching into the Jedi Temple with the 501st Legion.
01:15Instead, the digital wizard simmed the shot,
01:18with it only taking a grand total of one or two takes to nail the look of the CGI Darth Vader's cloak,
01:25naturally moving as he strutted across the screen.
01:28And you'll never watch it the same way again.
01:31Number 9, the Terminator was using a prop gun for that trick.
01:34Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
01:36Trying to do Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 Judgment Day spin reload move with your usual shotgun
01:42would 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 reloading sequences,
01:54secretly tricking you into believing that the T-800 was pulling off this move with your standard fake shotgun
01:59when firing at the sinister T-1000.
02:03According to the film's director's commentary though,
02:05there was one occasion when the multiple time Mr. Olympia accidentally picked up the wrong version of the prop shotgun
02:11and went for one of his trademark spins.
02:14With this one having a smaller lever than what he was used to,
02:17the big lad who had already ripped away the skin on his hands due to all of his shotgun spinning practice
02:22got his fingers caught,
02:24and the weight of the weapon snapping back on his hand nearly broke it.
02:27His 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,
02:34what's the coolest moment in an action movie of all time?
02:38Is it this spinning shotgun stuff or something else?
02:41Let me know in the comment section down below.
02:43Number 8.
02:44Mary Poppins' bathroom dip wasn't CGI.
02:47Mary Poppins Returns.
02:48It would have likely been a whole lot easier to simply chuck a digital Emily Blunt into a bubble bath
02:53and have her magically disappear into the suds.
02:56Where's the fun in that though?
02:58Instead of heading down the CGI route then,
03:00the creative special effects squad working on Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns
03:05decided to actually install a bath slide for the Can You Imagine That number.
03:09This allowed the actors to legitimately shoot into the bubbles
03:12before arriving in a space underneath the set
03:15for the moment involving Poppins and co diving into an underwater world in the flick.
03:20It's such a slick and well-executed piece of movie magic.
03:23There likely wasn't a single soul in theatres around the world
03:26who assumed this was anything other than another piece of CGI wizardry in the moment.
03:31But sometimes all you need is a giant slide, a ton of bubbles,
03:35and some committed thespians to realise a magical moment audiences didn't even know was fooling them.
03:41Number 7.
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 Slayer flick
03:52that 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,
04:02giving the one line of take it man when a supernatural member of the opposition wandered in front of him.
04:07And while you may have spotted this early Ben Affleck appearance
04:10during a random watch of the early 90s horror comedy,
04:13you likely didn't notice the fact that this wasn't actually the actor's voice in the finished article.
04:18Whilst chatting with James Corden on The Late Late Show,
04:21the star explained how he felt he did well with his few words in the film on the day.
04:25But the minute he sat down to watch the movie in theatres,
04:28he soon realised the director had 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.
04:47Number 6.
04:48The God of Thunder's mighty CGI patch,
04:50Thor Ragnarok slash Avengers Infinity War.
04:52During the events of Taika Waititi's colourful hit Thor Ragnarok,
04:56the God of Thunder himself loses an eye as he clashes with his goddess of death sister, Hela.
05:01From there, and for much of the epic that was the Russo brothers' Avengers Infinity War,
05:06Thor can be found wearing a pretty cool eye patch
05:08as he interacts with the likes of the Mad Titan and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
05:12The patch looks so legit throughout those aforementioned MCU flicks,
05:16fans didn't have any reason to believe this wasn't a practical eye cover attached to Chris Hemsworth's face.
05:21The Australian sensation would reveal to CinemaBlend in the lead-up to that third Avengers team-up, however,
05:27that this patch was actually a fully digital piece of protection.
05:31That's right, after attempting to move around set with a practical version of the item,
05:35the fact it kept falling off resulted in the Ragnarok team going for a CGI alternative instead.
05:40And the visual effects team behind the CGI patch did such a remarkable job,
05:45it's still tough to accept the fact this item of clothing wasn't actually present on set during so many Thor scenes.
05:52Number 5. Forced 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, Elf, 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,
06:09the director didn't just have Will Ferrell placed into the scene,
06:12involving the significantly larger buddy learning some elf lessons with his much smaller pals via some digital technology.
06:19Favreau actually decided to use one of the oldest movie magic tricks in the book.
06:23As the director revealed to Empire,
06:25forced perspective was used to convince audiences into thinking a massive buddy was squeezed into a desk beside his classmates.
06:32In reality, Favreau was actually a few meters closer to the camera than the rest of his fellow actors,
06:37with the folks behind the equipment choosing specific angles to help give off the illusion of Buddy towering over everyone else in the room.
06:44This wasn't a Christmas miracle, folks.
06:46It was just good old-fashioned and clever filmmaking.
06:49Number 4. Fred is secretly played by a mind to mess with your head.
06:53I am legend.
06:55In one of the more unsettling scenes that go down in 2007's adaptation of Richard Matheson's I am legend novel,
07:01Dr. Robert Neville suddenly and surprisingly catches his mannequin pal Fred stood outside of Grand Central Station.
07:08But it's the moment the camera lingers on Fred for the first time here
07:12that really left audiences questioning what they were watching.
07:15At a glance, it seems as though the filmmakers are perhaps just tricking you into believing the inanimate object's head
07:21only 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 head turn,
07:30showing how Robert was likely just hallucinating the action that forced him to wander closer
07:34to what was actually a trap set by the Darkseekers.
07:38It's such a sneaky and masterfully executed trick of sorts,
07:42folks are likely still double-taking the creepy and seemingly impossible moment during a rewatch to this day.
07:48Number 3. Part of the Burj Khalifa moment was shot in Vancouver, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.
07:53Tom Cruise definitely went for a ridiculous climb up the Burj Khalifa during the making of Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.
08:00Yep, that did happen.
08:01However, there was actually one specific moment during this thrilling Ethan Hunt stunt
08:06that required an easily missed piece of CGI.
08:09Now sure, the various wires used to keep the megastar from plummeting to the Dubai ground
08:13were also obviously erased thanks to some digital intervention.
08:17But there's also one particular shot as Ethan senses an incoming sandstorm,
08:22which would have actually been physically 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 closes in,
08:33ILM VFX artist Todd Vaziri, who worked on the flick,
08:36told Corridor Crew this moment is actually in Vancouver.
08:40Cruise was 20 feet in the air,
08:42some of the real Vancouver sky is present,
08:44and the space the star eventually looks at is all blue screen.
08:48The window behind him was also removed as the camera swings around
08:51to get that all-important over-the-shoulder shot of TC.
08:55But again, he did climb that building, baby!
08:58Number 2. An 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.
09:09Rather 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,
09:18the film's cinematographer, Oren Soffer, revealed Edwards' far simpler approach to Collider.
09:23Already happy with the exterior shots of the ambulance they had in the can,
09:27Edwards knew they just needed a brief shot that tricked audiences into thinking
09:31the actors were being flipped within the vehicle.
09:33So the director simply had his stars hop into the parked outside ambulance,
09:37and after a three-second countdown, Edwards rotated the camera 90 degrees,
09:42whilst the actors threw themselves 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.
09:53Number 1. The 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
10:01like Jamie Lee Curtis' Linda Drysdale,
10:04in 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,
10:14the scenes involving folks in glasses being interviewed by some police detectives
10:18actually boasted some genius art 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
10:30that fit the scene 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,
10:39but you were actually secretly being tricked by some cleverly disguised lighting.
10:43You love to see it.
10:44Well, sort of see it. You get what I mean.
10:46And that's our list.
10:47Know of any other movie scenes people didn't realise were tricking them?
10:50Well, let us know all about them in the comments section right down below
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11:05I've been Gareth from whatculture.com.
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