7 Magical Movie Scenes That Unbelievable Were NOT Made With CGI – One Flame-Throwing Guitar, Please (PART 2)
Nowadays, when people see something unbelievable in the movies they usually assume that that was made with CGI (computer-generated imagery) but sometimes they are wrong.
Nexter.org presents you a list of 7 amazing scenes made without CGI.
Spider-Man
Source: 20th Century Fox
Can you believe that the scene where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s lunch was Tobey Maguire ACTUALLY catching those things on a tray? He had a glue-like substance on his hands to keep the tray from falling and it took 156 takes to get it right.
The Dark Knight
Source: The Sun
To create the pencil trick they carefully edited two scenes, with and without a pencil, together.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Source: Warner Bros.
The flame-throwing guitar is real! Production designer Colin Gibson said, “yes, the flame-throwing guitar did have to operate, did have to play, the PA system did have to work.”
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Source: Paramount Pictures
Who doesn’t know that Tom Cruise loves to perform all the stunts on his own? But it is still surprising that he actually scaled the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world!
Independence Day
Source: 20th Century Fox
For this movie, they actually blew up the White House. Well, not the real one, of course. The film crew constructed a 5-feet-high model of it.
The Matrix
Source: Warner Bros
Unbelievable, but the lobby shootout was done using only practical effects and it took ten days to film.
Home Alone
Source: Creative Commons/Wikimedia
For the fire scene where a hat of one of the robbers was caught on fire they used an illusion called “Pepper’s Ghost”. It involves a large piece of glass which is angled between the viewer and the scene, in front of a booth with a mannequin head in it with a fire on top of it. The glass reflects the flame and it looks like robber’s head is on fire.
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