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watch mojo and today we're counting down
our picks for the top 10 things we
thought were cgi
but weren't
hello case hello tarz for this list
we'll be looking at various movie
special effects that we thought were cgi
but were actually done practically were
you fooled by any of these
let us know in the comments
number 10
the food catch
spider-man
being an actor must be weird sometimes
you nail an assignment on the first try
and sometimes it requires over 150 takes
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wow
great reflexes almost immediately after
gaining his spidey senses peter uses
them to catch mary jane from taking a
nasty spill he also shows off his
newfound reflexes by catching her
falling lunge with the tray to achieve
the effect toby mcguire's hand was glued
to the tray and he was required to catch
everything for real
hey you have blue eyes i i didn't notice
without your glasses
you just get contacts
it was even harder than it sounds this
five second stunt took 16 hours and 156
takes to get right just imagine if they
bungled a line after all of that how'd
you do that
workout
plenty of rest you know eat your green
vegetables
that's what my mom is always saying i
just never actually believed her number
nine pennywise's eyes
it and it chapter two
a large emphasis was placed on
pennywise's eyes director of photography
chung hung chung specifically lit his
eyes in a different way to make them
stand out and bill skarsgard added his
own personal touch
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in some of the horror sequences
pennywise's eyes go in different
directions almost as if he's shedding
his human persona and revealing his true
otherworldly nature you're supposed to
say three
turns out skarsgard can actually just do
that so no cgi was required while
appearing on conan bill hader shared a
funny anecdote about skarsgard doing it
on set and creeping him out he senses
something he kind of goes like
you know whatever and his eye goes
like that
and i go how is that a digital thing and
he went oh you mean this and then he
just did it
number eight
landmark destruction independence day
this movie is filled with iconic scenes
including the destruction of various
american landmarks
numerous buildings are hit by alien
beams and shatter into pieces including
the white house the us bank tower and
the empire state building
none of this was achieved through cgi
the special effects team built model
miniatures of the famous landmarks and
then blew them to smithereens with the
help of some clever camera positioning
the optical illusion was complete to
help the fire spread towards the camera
they actually were forced to build the
model street on its side and place the
camera at the top of a makeshift chimney
so when we have our destruction our fire
and everything start here it will run up
the street as it eats up the fuel and
our camera will be mounted about five
feet off the set
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it sounds exhausting but it all worked
out perfectly
number seven exo suits edge of tomorrow
listen man i've never been in one of
these yeah well i've never been with two
girls at the same time before but you
can bet when that day comes i'll make it
work tom cruise clearly enjoys doing
movies in which you can go hard and do
things for real edge of tomorrow is no
different
some worse and cheaper movies would
probably be content strapping cruz and
emily blunt into a prop chair and
digitally adding the exo suits around
them not this one the team of filmmakers
crafted over 100 prop battle suits many
of which weighed upwards of 85 pounds
when filming first started it took crews
about half an hour to climb in and out
of the bulky prop suits
so if it looks like the actors are
struggling inside those things that's
because they most certainly are
number six
contortion the conjuring the devil made
me do it
all sorts of movie tricks are used to
depict demonic possession some include
lots and lots of makeup and others
require some inventive stunt work and
sometimes you just hire a skilled
contortionist
in the beginning of this movie ed and
lorraine are exercising a demon from an
eight-year-old boy named david the boy
makes some crazy movements with his body
all of which was performed by a
contortionist named emerald gordon wolfe
it was a combination of our real actor
and a contortionist which took his place
it speaks to the conjuring tradition the
only cgi involved in this scene was
swapping wolf's face with that of child
actor julian hilliard the movements
themselves are very real and very
terrifying
the dinosaurs
jurassic park
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clever girl some people may have
misconceptions about jurassic park
spielberg's masterpiece is considered a
landmark in the history of cgi but very
few of the dinosaurs were actually
computer animated unfortunately those
that were look a little dated today
it's
it's a dinosaur
the dinosaurs that hold up specifically
the t-rex were made practically the
velociraptors were played by men in
dinosaur suits in both the dilophosaurus
and triceratops were animatronic models
my favorite when i was a kid and i see
it's just the most beautiful thing i
ever saw
the t-rex was also an animatronic model
that stood 20 feet high and weighed over
17 000 pounds
all were made by the legendary stan
winston who earned his third oscar for
best visual effects
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number four
weightlessness
apollo 13. well folks as uh you can
probably tell the aquarius isn't much
bigger than a couple of telephone booths
the uh skin of the lamb in some places
is only as
as thick as a couple of layers of tin
foil and that's all that protects us
from the vacuum of space it's easy
enough to do weightlessness with the
help of cgi put the actors on some
cables fly them in front of a green
screen add a digital backdrop and call
it a day but ron howard wanted to do it
for real
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howard approached steven spielberg and
asked him how he should do the
weightless scenes and spielberg
recommended using a boeing kc-135
by using a specific flight pattern this
plane would give the actors and
filmmakers about 20 seconds of
weightlessness when you're weightless it
feels like you just been spun upside
down all the blood goes into your head
and it feels like like when you're a
rocco plane at the amusement park it
just feels like they you just got spun
upside down you think suddenly like you
think hey i'm upside down no i'm not
what's wrong why is it different oh i'm
floating and then you realize well i
guess this is weightlessness yes this
likely required lots of takes and it
probably resulted in lots of up-chucked
lunches they don't call it the vomit
comet for nothing but the result looks
spectacular and that's it
we just put sir isaac newton in the
driver's seat number three the swinging
polecats mad max fury road
much of mad max fury road was filmed
practically and it helped the movie
attain high praise
everything looks amazing and there's
just a certain satisfaction in watching
real vehicles blow up and flip over in
the movies climax the bad guys swing
back and forth on massive poles that are
attached to their vehicles
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action unit director guy norris hired a
cirque du soleil performer to train his
stunt team in the use of poles and they
proceeded to do everything for real
while speeding through the desert the
choreographed performance was filmed in
one take and captured by numerous
cameras allowing george miller to
construct a fluid and exciting sequence
in the editing room
number two
the spinning hallway
inception
mean the idea of using a centrifuge to
manipulate gravity it's been done on
various films most notably kubrick's
2001 and i like the idea of
repurposing that technology and really
trying to to choreograph entire fight
sequence christopher nolan is probably
the only director who can say i need a
giant spinning hallway that likely costs
tens of millions of dollars and the
producers simply not and say whatever
you need
rather than using cgi for the hallway
fight nolan and his team decided to
craft a hundred foot long corridor that
spawned on eight concentric rings joseph
gordon levitt actually did his own
stunts inside the spinning hallway and
it required weeks of preparation and
training it looks like we're jumping on
the ceiling and stuff in order to
actually get it done i couldn't think of
it that way i had to think of it as this
is the ground okay now this is the
ground okay now this is the ground nolan
himself has even referred to the
spinning hallway as a torture device as
it thrashed the actors and left them
extremely disoriented so many action
movies now and it's all done on
computers later whereas
these scenes that we did it was so well
thought out it's just things revolving
and it's up to me to
keep my balance and we did the
performance and they shot it and that's
that before we unveil our top pick here
are a few honorable mentions
splash head terminator 2 judgement day
this movie revolutionized cgi but this
effect was still done practically by
stan winston
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the bank vault fast five
six different vaults were made and over
200 vehicles were destroyed
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the ark reactor iron man
robert downey jr's head was lined up
with a prop torso
oh oh there's pus it's not push it's an
inaudible plasmic discharges
from the device not from my body it
smells yeah it does making bread
star wars episode 7 the force awakens
the rising bread was a practical effect
no it didn't taste good
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horse
army of the dead
the decayed horse shell was sculpted and
painted and placed over a real horse
there's a real horse under there his
name is ace me and my team are animal
lovers so we have to take care with this
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number one
plane rescue iron man 3
it's no secret that marvel uses a lot of
cgi in their movies so it's always a
nice surprise to see something done for
real remember that game called barrel of
monkeys that's what we're gonna do 18
000 feet
come on people everybody grab your
monkey in one thrilling sequence iron
man saves numerous people from free fall
after they're sucked out of a moving
plane this action scene was supposed to
be done in front of a green screen but
the second unit director personally knew
the red bull skydiving team and hired
them to do it for real
watching dailies it was truly terrifying
and seeing the cameraman point you know
from 10 000 feet in the air and you see
the ground approach it's phenomenal
there were small amounts of cgi used
like adding iron man's armor and the
miami coastline as the scene was
actually shot in north carolina but the
skydiving stunt itself was 100 percent
real
nice work guys
excellent good team effort all around go
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