27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects

27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects

We're quick to fill in the blanks behind the craziest effects we see in movies by wondering at what they can do with computers these days. But it turns out there's nothing but old-fashioned smoke and mirrors behind some of the most memorable movie moments of all time. We asked our readers to give us their favorite examples of movie magic we might have taken for granted. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

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APOLLO 13 Seriously? Like real Zero G!? The whole movie!? Haha! How..? -CRACKED COM
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CRACKED cO COM The tornado in The Wizard of Oz is just a lady's silk stocking strung up and twirled around by a fan. htpljoumalschapmanecuosindoxphp
To creat CG characters, actors wear special markers to capture their motion. So this: EDO DEODD D-D: aa: o:. a:ape Becomes this: http:llwwww.dvdtalk.c
Real Omar Sharif Man in Land Rover driving round in circles to raise dust Line of swept sand to draw the eye CRACKED'COM
No CGI was used in the corkscrew jump performed in The Man with the Golden Gun Jay Milligan, who had performed the jump before, was called away befo
27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects
In Jurassic Park the sounds made by these guys... actually... were
CRACKED CON COM THE TARDIS x au r LANDING SOUND IS MADE BY KEYS SCRAPING ON PIANO WIRE
27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects
This Chevy Lumina, supposedly driven by Tom Cruise's character in Days of Thunder, was fully -prepared and officially entered in some NASCAR races to
27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects
CRACKEDCO CON For a battle scene in which a bridge is destroyed, the producers of this WW2 epic actually built a bridge in Yugoslavia and blew it Up.
Androids & Bad Milk While shooting the scene where Bishop gets impaled by the Alien queen in Aliens. Lance Henriksen caught food poisoning from the mi
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CRACKED.COM RIDLEY SCOTT: INSIDE THE EGG YOU CAN SEE MOVEMENT THAT IS MY HANDS IN RUBBER GLOVES. ALIEN (1979) empireonline.com
27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects
In Scanners, a prosthetic head was filled with dog food and rabbit livers... ...then shot from behind with a 12 gauge shotgun
Sean Connery almost got his crotch torched off in Goldfinger: Special effects man, Alfred J. Luxford, was under the table with an acetylene torch, cut
How did Spielberg film those gory effects of maiming in Saving Private Ryan? AMPUTEES!- shopp CRACKEDGO COM httplwww.imdb.comtitleto120815trilva
When filming Star Trek's space jump scene, the actors were suspended upside-down, and kept passing out from blood rushing to their heads. Finally, J.J
In Predator his blood GRACKEDcO COM was made from glow stick and K-Y Jelly. A fresh batch was always on hand because the blood would quickly dry up li
Source: e:http://www.yesterland.com/casablanca.html The airplane in the background is a small wooden cut-out on a sound-stage. The fog is smoke used t
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) For scenes when the title character has shrunk to less than two inches tall and is beneath a leaking water heater,
In The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke's character hides a piece of razorblade in his wrist tape to use when the time is right. This is a tried-and-true tec
ET. CRACKED COM 's face was modeled after... THE ExTra-TERrestrial Poet Albert a Carl Sandburg Einstein and Pug Dog Can you see the li'l fella? http:/

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