Movies are magic. Not the dark sorcery that causes kids to go to college to study Sociology or Creative Writing, but magic nonetheless. These behind-the-scenes movie tricks prove your eyes can’t be trusted. Film is all about tricking your senses into believing you’re actually seeing Thanos commit genocide or actors feel genuine emotions.
A magician uses sleight of hand and smoke and mirrors to make the audience see what they did not see. Movie directors use the same techniques to make it feel like you just saw Keanu Reeves stop bullets with his hands.
Here are the coolest behind-the-scenes secret techniques directors used to make their movies great:
1. Color correction and some dolly shots make The Matrix (1999) look better than this lobby they shot in.
2. Dentures made Brando have jowls in The Godfather (1972)
3. If you’re using real glasses in the shot, make sure the reflection isn’t a bunch of people filming a movie. From Knives Out (2019).
4. I was shocked to find out Life of Pi (2015) didn’t use any actual pie while shooting.
5. It took a lot of equipment that I don’t understand to make Thanos look natural onscreen.
6. Titanic (1997) was filmed in a pool.
7. Avengers: Engame (2019) looked like the inside of a computer when they were shooting.
8. I’m ready for my closeup, guy who made Men In Black (1997)
9. Most of the original Star Wars used models, but so did The Phantom Menace, a movie we try to forget ever happened.
10. It took a lot of work in Avengers Engame (2019) to make Mark Ruffalo look bigger than fat Thor.
11. Now you finally know what was in the box in Pulp Fiction (1994).
12. The end result in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) was cute.
13. The car in Baby Driver (2017) needed to be driven by the crew, not the actors! It’s something I don’t even think about while watching all the vroom, vrooms! I’m an idiot.
14. They needed Bane to make the CGI dog in The Call Of The Wild (2020)
15. The live-action version of Mulan was semi-animated.
