You Will Never Watch Movies the Same Again

the very best movies of all time make us believe that everything we see on the screen is real but in order to immerse you in a world full of wonder there are hidden details covert methods and even secret backup endings concealed behind the scenes and once you start noticing and learning about them i promise you'll never be able to watch movies the same way ever again history in the making when most people think of computer generated imagery or cgi in films they tend to refer to superheroes defying gravity or impossible looking alien creatures in sci-fi and fantasy movies though not many audiences realize it also plays a huge part in period and historical dramas while painstaking amounts of detail are poured into making each shot look authentically old-fashioned there are some settings and items that simply can't be sourced this might be because they don't exist anymore or they're just too expensive to recreate and this is where studios such as technicolor vfx are brought in to save the day during the film's post-production they add crucial details like massive missing landmarks lush looking forests and even entire armies on the brink of war this scene from vanity fair for example had an entirely fictional street created so that directors could include a shot of the characters in a perfect stone courtyard and this shot saved the producers from hiring and kitting out hundreds of extras in soldier uniforms by simply adding them in a little later who knew history needed so much retouching well those scenes might be fake but the like and subscribe buttons down below definitely aren't go ahead and test them out while they won't transport you into a world of fancy corsets and snooty societies they will let you keep up to date with phenomenal facts and salacious stories but for now let's leave the past in the past and get back to even more movie magic cgi subtractions as amazing as cgi is it does have its limitations while creating something simple and adding it in seems pretty simple editing or removing features from footage can be a painstaking process and that's something that the effects artists who worked on the phenomenal failure of a film the justice league know all too well dc film fans might have noticed superman's super blurry upper lip pulling focus in several shots it doesn't look quite right does it well after finishing work on the warner brothers production superman actor henry cavill grew the mustache for his role in paramount pictures as mission impossible 6 but when warner requested a few reshoots later on paramount expressly forbid him from shaving his stoic stash this forced the effects artist to scramble and remove every last hair from every last frame of the reshot sections and the result was pretty unsettling to say the least it's hardly surprising the film was panned as one of the worst productions released in 2017 but just because cgi subtractions are hard it doesn't mean they're impossible to get right as proven by marvel's captain america despite starting out as scrawny little steve rogers actor chris evans flawlessly gained both bulk and height when he's transformed into the godlike captain america now directors can ask an actor to gain weight but it'd be impossible for him to really grow several feet marvel actually achieved this effect by compositing his face onto a body double as well as using cgi to slim down his massive muscles in post-production it sounds simple but almost all scenes required a minimum of three takes one with chris evans one with the body double and one scene where the actors were missing to focus on background detail and each of these scenes required around four to five different takes taking up a tremendous amount of filming time although i think we can all agree it's an effect that's worth every second gains and losses when it comes to finding the perfect performer for a specific role actors will go to incredible lengths to really look the part but some take it to stomach churning extremes and commit to incredibly punishing weight changes christian bale for example dropped a shocking 63 pounds for his role in the machinist he then gained a mighty 100 pounds of pure muscle for his role as batman and then later added an unhealthy looking 43 pounds on top to play dick cheney in vice i mean that kind of fluctuation just can't be good for you but he's not the only one jared leto lost a frightening 40 pounds for his role in dallas buyers club this was made even more concerning by the fact that he'd previously gained 62 pounds to portray mark chapman in chapter 27 and had accidentally given himself gout in the process as bad as that is it can't be worse than his cameo as the joker yikes but even more terrifying than that some actors will purposefully and dangerously dehydrate themselves to appear even more lean on screen hugh jackman famously admitted to severely dehydrating himself for his role in logan i mean the results do look incredible but this method of extreme dehydration has actually claimed the lives of professional bodybuilders in the past even so plenty of actors still thirst for a physique as good as hughes holy foley have you ever noticed how everything in movies sounds pitch perfect from a creepy door opening to the gentle sound of moving sand everything sounds exactly as you'd imagine it and it's never interrupted by any background noise well that's not by coincidence it's actually by design sound designed to be specific also known as foley foley studios like studio unknown create sounds that are perfectly in sync with the world on the screen to make a movie world sound as seamless as it looks to do this they use a variety of different things to emulate specific sounds like using celery for breaking bones oh i felt that they also use a patch of earth and a water bottle to capture the essence of a character taking a leak but these can also be combined into complex sounds like someone graphically losing a body part i dread to imagine what just got cut off almost everything in a major hollywood film can be dubbed over using techniques like this from the soft rustling of clothing to rushed footsteps and even ah yes the perfect fart or is that more of a monster growl let me know what you think it is down in the comments screaming in joke here's a question what do star wars indiana jones and spaceballs all have in common any idea well maybe this will help you out [Music] did you hear it each movie had the exact same scream sound effect edited in you've probably heard it somewhere else as well and that's because this is the infamous wilhelm scream [Music] it's believed to have been recorded by actor chev wooley way back in 1951 when it was first used in the film distant drums take a listen the hilariously dramatic high-pitched whale was used in several other films before being added to the warner brothers stock sound library but it really came to prominence when it was used in all three films of the star wars trilogy [Music] since then the hysterical scream has been a secret in-joke in the film industry and the seemingly random sound bite has featured in over 100 hollywood movies but as iconic as it's become no royalties have ever been paid to the originator of the iconic scream no wonder he sounds so wounded the real witch hunt getting genuine reactions of shock surprise and even fear from a cast when filming is a great way of making a film feel all the more real and it was this admittedly morally questionable method that made the 1996 film the blair witch project an unexpected success it was a low budget documentary horror film that followed three student filmmakers into the woods in their search for a mysterious and murderous supernatural entity but as it was being shot the directors would play small unexpected tricks on the cast to really get their adrenaline pumping in the dead of night they'd shake their tents or play the ominous sound of children laughing in the distance because the actors had almost no idea what to expect their reactions of shock and fear caught on camera are all real creating an unparalleled feeling of suspense for any audience watching over the course of filming the actors were also slowly given less and less food all to elicit their reactions of frustration and hunger for the sake of the camera while these shots made the whole story feel incredibly real it was the marketing team who really took it to the next level the film used all the actors real names and with it shot like a documentary the marketing team pretended the actors had genuinely gone missing while filming they created a memorial page online and handed out missing person flyers during screenings of the film to make the world believe that it all really happened and it clearly worked because family members of the cast received heartfelt bereavement cards from friends who were none the wiser oh i bet that led to some very awkward conversations the cloud tank when you're watching a classic film and rolling waves of ominous clouds start to dominate the screen you know the characters are in for some seriously supernatural trouble but scenes like this in indiana jones independence day and close encounters of the third kind were all created before super detailed computer generated effects were widely used in the industry so how exactly do they create such unnatural yet realistic looking cloud formations the answer surprisingly lies in a giant water tank visual effects artists would fill huge 7x7 tanks with a layer of salt water before covering it with a thin sheet of plastic and adding in a separate layer of fresh water once the plastic was removed the two water layers remained separate thanks to their different densities from there mixtures like paint or milk would be injected into the water at the point where the two layers met as it dispersed in the fresh water the paint would start to resemble huge billowing clouds which could then be recorded and edited into the sky of any given film later on so next time you hit play on a golden oldie turn your eyes to the skies and see if you can spot some of these strange clouds cue the godfather the godfather is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time without spoiling it for anyone who hasn't gotten around to watching it yet it charts the corleone crime family's rise to power in new york back in the 1940s and at the head of the film's acting family sat the godfather of actors himself marlon brando he was an academy award-winning actor whose performance in the godfather was so impactful it saw him named one of time's 100 most important people of the century even though to me he sounded like he was speaking with a mouth full of pasta it was so unfortunate so unnecessary but for all his critical acclaim brando's iconic suspense-filled lines weren't memorized unlike every other actor brando relied on cue cards which he felt increased his spontaneity his lines were all printed and placed in his character's line of sight hidden among the shadows of the set some photos from the production even show his fellow actors holding the cue cards up to their chest for him to read it's amazing to think that he was able to convince the director to let him do this but maybe he made him an offer he couldn't refuse nothing corny about it christopher nolan is a film director who famously makes visually stunning pieces of cinema like inception dunkirk and the dark knight but it was his 2014 film interstellar that showed the world just how far he was willing to go to make a truly spectacular movie part of the central plot of the space adventure revolved around the value of corn and as such the main character's home sports a healthy and huge crop of it but nolan didn't want to rely on cgi to make such a massive set look real instead he spent a staggering 100 000 planting and growing 500 acres of the golden green crop it was a lot of effort but the realistic effect was worth it especially when you compare it to similar scenes like this obviously fake one from the famous flop of a film that was the justice league the way it moves and looks is completely different and even though it's a tiny detail it cemented nolan's reputation for excellence in the industry even further and that's not all once the filming was complete the crop was still in relatively good condition even though he'd sent a car crashing through god knows how many thousands of stocks he was able to sell it off for a tiny profit so you could say he managed to turn this film set into a cornucopia bringing back the dinosaurs jurassic park changed the sci-fi game when it was released back in 1993 even though it's remembered for its innovative use of computer-generated visual effects only 4 minutes and 14 seconds of the film featured fake dinosaurs the rest were all real in a manner using a mix of animatronics and puppetry the visual effects team created dinosaurs that the cast could also interact with but most notably the raptors really took on a life of their own this was thanks to the genius of the stan winston visual effects studio who built functioning rafter puppets large enough for a person to fit inside by having someone inside each raptor the movements they produced looked incredibly natural while also giving them a believable appearance it also made them so impressively lifelike that the puppets were used in all three of the original films with special effects creators like john rosengrant piloting them for key scenes the only thing they didn't bank were the noises the raptors made which turn out to have been based on recordings of uh copulating animals according to sound designer gary riddstrom that famous raptor bark that had kids cowering in movie theaters was actually a recording of a mating tortoise like this one obviously it was given a little tweaking to make it scarier for the theatrical release but with all these men in animal costumes and animal mating noises you have to ask yourself was jurassic park really a family friendly film continental tastes sometimes it's the little things in films that gets an audience on board and that couldn't be truer for pixar's animated phenomenon inside out the film about feelings was a surprise hit globally and the visual designers made extra effort to ensure it could be something everyone related to in the us release of the film baby riley is seen turning up her nose at a plate of broccoli but in the japanese release the broccoli is replaced with green peppers in western culture broccoli is considered an enemy by many children and particularly picky adults but in the east they actually tend to like it with japanese babies finding green bell peppers a little yuckier armed with this factoid animators changed the broccoli to green bell peppers in the japanese release so that all audiences could relate no matter where in the world they were the same little detail changes were also seen in disney's zootopia an anthropomorphic family venture following human-like animals around in a fun and fictional world it turns out that in the film's news reading scene the animal anchor changes depending on which region it's being watched from japan for example got a talking to nookie australia got a koala and china got a panda if only all news in real life looked this cute a colorful solution now my fellow star wars nerds will all have probably noticed one incredibly obvious detail regarding the film franchise's iconic lightsabers before 2002's attack of the clones was released lightsabers had just three different colors for the good guys the badass blades were green and blue and for the bad guys they were red aside from the clear good versus evil connotations this established it also helped the audience to track who was fighting who in battles but then came along samuel jackson even though he'd made iconic appearances in films like jurassic park and pulp fiction he was only scripted to play the minor role of jedi warrior mace windu but knowing that the film would have a huge fight at the end with hundreds of different lightsabers slicing through the air jackson was determined to stand out he asked director george lucas if his lightsaber could be changed to his favorite color purple just so he could spot himself in the midst of all that action lucas just couldn't say no and the final result made jackson look even more cool than he already was but it also sparked a running gag in the majority of movies he appeared in after his role in unbreakable saw his character mr glass decked head to toe in a bright purple suit his villainous portrayal of valentine in kingsman saw him don a bright purple cap lazarus in black snake moan was given a prominently purple guitar and even his character whiplash in the animated adventure turbo was a snail with a purple lit shell so next time you watch a samuel jackson movie remember to keep your eyes peeled for a prolific purple prop the titanic had another ending james cameron's titanic is without a doubt one of the most heartbreaking movies of all time based on the real life events of the sinking of the rms titanic it tells the fictional story of two lovers rose and jack who spoilers do not get there happily ever after as an old lady rose regales her tale to a bunch of intrepid treasure hunters who are after a priceless diamond called the heart of the ocean rose tells her story of love loss and survival while claiming that she lost the diamond when the ship sank but little do they know that rose kept the diamond all those years and she secretly throws it into the sea over the ship's wreck site with an odd little yelp it's a hard hitting ending that in no uncertain terms demonstrates to the audience love really is the greatest treasure of all but it wasn't always going to end so poignantly in 2005 the dvd release of the titanic included an alternative ending which had film lovers recoiling in disbelief in it rose is caught about to throw the diamond into the water and the treasure hunter begs her to reconsider she briefly hands the diamond to him before making a painfully cheesy and obvious statement about life being truly priceless only life is priceless and making each day count but suddenly the old lady performs a spectacular god-tier troll maneuver and whips it out of his grasp before tossing it into the ocean with the same weird yelp suffice to say the scenes were filmed just in case the core message of the colossal three and a half hour movie was lost on the audience and fortunately it wasn't included in the final cut if it had been i'd recommend the film's reviews might have really sunk the magic of green screen in the wizarding world of harry potter the computer generated special effects are so good that you'd be forgiven for thinking the magic was real unfortunately making the magic come to life on the silver screen actually took a lot and i mean a lot of green screens these brightly colored backdrops allow media technicians to use a process called chroma keying where they separate the green screens from anyone standing in front of them they can replace those backgrounds with pretty much anything making characters look like they can fly become invisible or even emerge from impossibly small spaces although there's some parts of the film that took a little more imagination than others in this scene from harry potter and the half-blood prince hermione is busy chatting to harry around the hogwarts library as she idly replaces books back onto their shelves each tome magically floats back to its own place on the shelf but none of these books are animated so how did they do it well one shot from behind the scenes reveal they were being handed to people in green screen suits stood on the other side of the shelves well that's certainly one way to keep the magic alive actors don't act their age have you ever noticed that in films about half-hazard teenagers or even young love the actors filling the main roles always tend to look a little older than their characters are well if you didn't before you certainly will now classic coming-of-age films like mean girls for example are often said around the school life of 16 year old kids but at the time it was made not one of the main mean girls actors was even close to that age the youngest of them was lindsay lohan at a passable 18 years old but rachel mcadams who played the ever iconic regina george was actually 26 but it's not just mean girls trying to pass off older actors as youthful youngans in harry potter in the chamber of secrets the ghost of poor fourteen-year-old myrtle warren is portrayed by shirley henderson who was a staggering 37 at the time suddenly that bathroom scene she's in with a half-naked harry feels all manner of wrong but it doesn't just apply to female characters andrew garfield played the 17 year old spider-man when he was 29 and toby maguire had previously played the same spandex clad role well into his 30s as weird as that is to realize now there is actually a pretty good reason why older actors are often used instead of their younger counterparts if a film contains mature content like violence or risque scenes companies can look really bad putting literal child actors front and center stage so it's much safer to use older actors and just cover up their age with a little makeup and really really good lighting foam fight a well-choreographed fight scene in any film has the power to make or break it the john wick films are an amazing example of just how well these could be done and star trek has given us um the opposite of that [Music] but in some more shocking scenes actors are literally thrown into the ground smashed onto floors and pile driven into bare concrete how can they actually do that without breaking any bones in real life well take a look at this fight scene footage from mission impossible fallout a film where tom cruise does all his own stunts and henry cavill reloads his arms both actors are pummeled into the floor and smashed into the tiles but this setup isn't as dangerous as it seems to protect the actors sets like this can be built out of a dense foam pack floor called insulite it mimics the appearances of hard surfaces but gives the actors enough padding to prevent real injuries when they hit the deck and if you look here you can even see tom cruise's knee indent the supposed stone steps proving there's a little phone there to break his fall it's a brilliant set design trick that makes all the stone pounding action feel real without pulling any punches which of these are you never going to be able to unsee again let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching

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Length: 26min 22sec (1582 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 02 2021