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15 Movie Moments That Took Way More Work Than You Probably Thought

May 05, 2021

Psycho’s shower scene, while scary, looks like it’d be super quick and easy to film, right? Well, truly, the movie business is all illusions. Here’s the story behind that particular one, plus 14 others:

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Predator

The shot of Arnie and his team crawling with binoculars in Predator was super hard to pull off. They needed a crane and a remote control camera to film it, and it took three hours. CRACKED COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The black hole imagery in Interstellar was made with a custom program with over 40,000 lines of code. The program relied on solving equations for how light beams move through a black hole's curved space-time any other movie would probably have just hired an artist to crank out some passable — Source: ArXiv

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Jim Carrey needed CIA training to get through How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It took eight and a half hours to apply the Grinch makeup, and Carrey says it felt like being buried alive each day.' So they called in someone who trained CIA agents how to get through torture, — Source: RadioTimes

12

Making Jabba the Hutt for Return of the Jedi took three months. The puppet cost half a million dollars to build, and weighed one ton. CRACKED COM — Source: Google Books

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1 out of every 160 New Zealanders worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 2 To give you a sense of their ludicrous scale, there were 20,000 extras, and over 00o individual weapons were made just for those movies. — Source: Irish Times

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Psycho

It took seven days to film Psycho's 45-second shower scene. Hitchcock used a total of 78 setups and 52 cuts for that scene. — Source: The Independent

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Avatar

Source: Google Books

8

Over 300,000 extras showed up in Gandhis funeral scene. It holds a Guinness World Record for most extras in one sceneo and, amazingly, it was shot in one morning. CRACKED COM — Source: Guinness World Records

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RoboCop

It was SO hot on the Robocop set, Peter Weller sometimes lost eight pounds a day. OU They filmed in Dallas, where it would get over 100 degrees in the summer, and the heat made it so hard to be in the Robocop suit that Weller would sometimes have cool — Source: Mental Floss

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Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise had to walk around in 85-pound exosuits in Edge of Tomorrow. The suits had 320 custom-made components, plus another 150 off-the-shelf ones. CRACKED COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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Amy and Desi's sex scene in Gone Girl was surprisingly demanding to shoot. They shot it over two days, and changed the linens and wardrobe a total of 35 times. It was a particularly complex scene to shoot, not so much for the activity but for the clean-up, said David — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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The Pixar crew behind Wall-E watched Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin films every day for a year They watched at least one of those movies every single day, so they could learn how to get across emotion without spoken words. — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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One scene in the Jackie Chan movie Dragon Lord took 2,900 takes. BLat (e fusl It was a super-intricate scene that ran for almost ten minutes and involved Chan pulling off a difficult kick- in 1982, they couldn't fix it in post-production, so they just kept filming until they — Source: Times Union

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Filming Marla and Tyler's CGI sex scene in Fight Club was super weird and grueling. Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham-Carte posed in Kama Sutra-like positions about 12 hours while covered in dots Clike they would be for motion capture) and having cameras shoot still photos of them. CRACKED COM — Source: FilmSchoolRejects

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It took 318,000 hours to render the parting of the Red Sea in Prince of Egypt. And that scene was a total of seven minutes long. CRACKED COM — Source: Optics.org

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