hey everyone i'm rebecca and welcome to
watch mojo
today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10 weirdest behind the scenes
footage
before effects it was absolutely
exhausting
i wish i was 10 years younger
eyes on your own cards buddy all of them
he's so hard to work with this is
ridiculous
for this list we're looking at behind
the scenes peaks that showcase the
mundane
and often hilarious reality behind
extravagant visual effects
so what movie shoots would you like to
take a closer look at behind the scenes
be sure to let us know in the comments
below alright let's get into it
number 10. green hands harry potter and
the half blood prince
since alas wizarding world magic does
not exist
bringing hogwarts to life require giant
sound stages
primarily at least in studios and simple
old green screen tricks
one scene in the half-blood prince has
hermione returning books to their
shelves while talking to harry
given the circumstances i've had to make
other arrangements
have you yes why
well i just thought seeing as neither of
us can go with who we'd really like to
we should go together as friends as this
behind the scenes photo shows
the levitation was accomplished with
green gloves
much like a green screen the hands were
digitally erased in post-production
leaving behind a floating book it's the
exact same trick they used for harry's
invisibility cloak well
let's see then put it on
whoa my body's gone
number nine daenerys's dragon game of
thrones
game of thrones had a massive budget
which allowed them to build a giant
dragon contraption that emilia clarke
had compared to a theme park ride
the scenes in which daenerys rides
drogon required clark to strap into a
giant hydraulic machine placed in front
of a green screen so that the thing
she's moving on is moving around
as if she was really riding on drogon
but in a stage
in belfast in front of green screen the
machine vaguely resembles a dragon
and it moves around to simulate their
flight patterns meanwhile
clark is forced to just flail around and
make menacing looks into the cameras
it's certainly not an easy job and clark
says as much in behind the scenes
featurettes
no wonder she was nominated for four
emmys i mean can you even imagine being
on the back of a reptile that's
breathing
fire at your command that's huge
number eight puppeteers in hoodies solo
a star wars story
the seat taken
nobody's in the seat getting taken from
debatable quality of the movie aside
we have to give props to solo for using
old school practical effects
it gives the movie a very authentic star
wars-y feeling
in one of the film's most memorable
sequences han meets lando at a card game
and they proceed to play with various
alien creatures
close but not quite
every alien around the table was either
a person in a costume
or a puppet check out this two-headed
alien as an example
as this behind the scenes photo shows
controlling the alien required
four people in green hoodies to manually
control each of the puppet's limbs
number seven friend like me aladdin the
friend like me sequence was perhaps
the most visually dazzling and
imaginative scene in the 2019 version of
aladdin
don't sit there buggy odd i'm here to
answer all your midday prayers
luckily for us disney music vivo posted
a video showing how they filmed the
sequence
and it is equal parts bizarre and
mesmerizing
will smith and mina massoud performed in
front of a blue screen
and interacted with people in blue morph
suits
don't sit there buggy odd i'm here to
answer all your midday prayers
perhaps the most interesting aspect of
this footage is seeing the old-fashioned
tricks they utilized
like a hydraulic couch and a platform
that smith stands on to make him look
taller
it's no surprise that this movie cost in
the realm of 180 million to 200 million
dollars to produce
you can clap now
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no no no no please please please please
you can thank me outside
in the sun number six barrel escape the
hobbit
the desolation of smaug peter jackson's
adaptation of the hobbit was criticized
for its over-reliance on cgi
oh come on let's go one look at the
green fueled behind the scenes footage
is enough to make the point
although we have to admit filming this
sequence with practical effects would
have been pretty tough
one of the most memorable scenes from
the desolation of smaug is the barrel
escape
which sees bilbo and the dwarves riding
on wine barrels while avoiding orcs and
wood elves
one of these elves is legolas played by
the returning orlando bloom
to film the sequence bloom was placed in
front of a giant green screen and
see-sawed by crew members in green suits
cgi backgrounds and barrels do the rest
i'm firing my arrows and then doing 180s
and then 360s and just
it was carnage it was absolutely
exhausting
ah tired i wish i was 10 years younger
number five the beast beauty and the
beast puppeteering
the suit for the motion capture it's an
ordeal
for my calf muscles alone let alone you
know just the whole
whole body just to kind of manipulate
seeing an actor decked out in what looks
like giant puffy pajamas on set
is a memorable sight indeed these motion
capture suits are how colossus was
brought to life in deadpool
such a you thing to say go get em tiger
big cgi fight coming up
the same technique was used for the
beast in the 2017 live-action remake of
beauty and the beast
emma watson one our respect anew when we
saw this footage
because acting opposite dan stevens in
this suit must have been quite
a challenge indeed i really stood in awe
of den not only did he
conquer the technology but he had fun
with it he decided that this was a
challenge
and of course hats off to him for
mastering the performance
how she managed to keep a straight face
while filming this though
we will never know number four petting
zoo dinosaurs
jurassic world just imagine getting to
work on a thrilling movie like jurassic
world
and your job is to crawl around on all
fours with a child strapped to your back
there's a scene in jurassic world where
children ride around on dinosaurs in a
petting zoo
this sequence was probably fun to film
for the kids but maybe not so much for
the adults who had to crawl around
acting like dinosaurs depending on how
many takes they had to do
industrial light and magic certainly
lives up to their name because
transforming this hilarious sight into a
cute and heartwarming scene
is true magic indeed this place is for
little kids
yeah i know wanna go into spinning
dinosaur eggs nope
number three superman's flight man of
steel
how do they film superman flying away
really fast
the answer lies in an awkward hip thrust
and a quick camera zoom out
after saving lois superman takes her to
a cornfield
while talking a very serious look comes
across his face and he zips away into
the sky
it looks and sounds really cool but the
reality is anything but
henry cavill looks concerned and
proceeds to puff out his chest
and look upwards as the camera quickly
zooms out and tilts up
revealing a boom mic in the process
filming these movies seems like a lot of
silly fun
number two the train climax back to the
future
part three
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it's a science experiment so what did
they do
before cgi was widely practiced and
adopted models and miniatures mostly
as this glorious picture shows filming
the climactic train sequence in back to
the future part 3
involved miniatures a car a camera guy
up on a scaffold
and some convincing dirt and shrubbery
and the best part about it is that it
actually worked
as the train scene looks amazing to this
day
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unfortunately the same cannot be said
for that awkwardly rendered moment where
doc and clara ride away on the
hoverboard
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number one rocket raccoon guardians of
the galaxy rocket raccoon is one of the
most beloved characters
in the marvel canon even if he's
composed entirely of computer graphics
and shot gun in a green costume
much like gollum gunn provided the
physical movements of rocket on set
so that the animators and actors would
have something to work with a lot of
times he had this green bodysuit with
just his face
you know sticking out of it and he would
crawl around like
crab so that he's the height of rocket
it's a great and time-honored way to go
about it
however this method also results in some
awkward moments like dave bautista
petting a fully grown man
on the head if this list proves anything
it's that modern technical wizardry
often boils down to people doing goofy
things in green morph suits
and so really the character of rocket is
created by
many many people and that's one of the
things i think that makes him seem
so real to us is because he does have
this life of his own
and we're all sort of serving that i'll
be honest with you
even now knowing what i know about how
they shot it i still do not see the
miniatures in back to the future part 3
and when i was a kid i definitely
just thought that they destroyed an
entire locomotive so how about you
are there any movie scenes that when you
see behind the scenes footage you are
absolutely blown away
be sure to let us know in the comments
below or come tell me
on twitter or instagram rebecca brayton
or on my youtube channel
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