In other words, the special effects in movies today seem to be everywhere and omnipotent, but there are also many Hollywood movies that choose to take a different path, some are the technical bottlenecks of the era, some are financial constraints, and some are the pursuit of the texture of real shooting...
Today, through a set of behind-the-scenes photos that you've probably never seen before, see how filmmakers can create stunning effects without special effects!
Star Wars: A New Hope
The effect of Luke's spaceship floating in the movie is very simple to achieve, using only a mirror...
What you see in the movie is a battleship spaceship, and the Stormtrooper army, which is likely to be a matte painting...
True Lies
Originally, director Cameron really blew up a real bridge, but he didn't get permission... So I built such a bridge model, but the fidelity still deceived many viewers...
Overseas Commissioner
See how Hitchcock filmed the effect of a plane crash crashing into the sea
Amazingly, the film was shot in 1940...
From this frame, you can see the traces of the paper being broken by the water current
Terminator
When shooting some dangerous scenes, the Terminator crew used a rear projection method, such as this scene of saving people while driving.
The Mandalorian
In other words, with the development of technology, the technology of rear projection has been reused by the current film and television industry, but replaced by a huge screen, perhaps the big screen can solve all the scenes, and the actors do not have to act against the green screen...
"007: The Great Skyfall"
The scene at the end of the film where a helicopter crashes into a farm, and there is a miniature vintage Aston Martin full of bullet holes in the lower left.
《Grand Budapest Hotel》
In the movie, climbing a small cable car, actually filmed like this...
And that's the perspective inside the car...
Not only that, but even the place where the story takes place, the whole hotel is fake...
Men in Black
The staff is adjusting the little alien props in the human head.
In addition to this, there is a larger size prop for shooting close-up shots.
Alien
The cyborg head that can talk without the body is actually achieved in this way, and those white thick liquids are edible condensed milk.
Jaws
Bionic shark props, such a mechanical shark crew created a total of three, the complete one for shooting underwater shots.
The remaining two strips, each exposing the mechanical structure inside the sides, were used to shoot side shots.
Dunkirk
When shooting a grand war film and not being able to invite so many group performances, the crew had to use paper people instead...
Django Rescued
In order to meet the "flesh feeling" requested by director Quentin, the "explosive blood bag" used in this film is filled with latex strips and other particle fillers.
Ghostbusters
Sigourney Weaver on the couch with the crew in the filming of countless people's childhood shadows...
American Werewolf in London
In the process of the werewolf transformation in the movie, all the amazing special effects are achieved with props and makeup.
"Extreme Car Thief"
It is very dangerous when the actor is driving while playing, and the person who actually drives the car is actually on the roof...
Terminator: Judgment Day
In the scene where the city is destroyed by a nuclear explosion in the movie, many people think that it is a computer CG screen, but the truth is that the crew has built a realistic miniature model of the city.
007: GoldenEye
The vast Siberian snowfield in the movie is actually a model built indoors... The mountains in the distance are actually a painting.
The helicopter gunship that appears in the movie is actually just a remote control plane...
Back to the Future 2
The jacket on the protagonist's body that can be automatically dried and resized in the movie is actually achieved in this way...
Flying skateboards are not only hanging Weahs, but there are also people on it who control the direction and posture
Spider-Man 2
A close-up of Dr. Octopus grasping a small object with a robotic arm was actually filmed with the assistance of the staff.
"Hunting Red October"
In order to simulate the effect of the submarine shaking in the sea, the crew specially created a huge prop that can move left and right back and forth!
《Independence Day》
The "White House" blasted to ashes by alien spacecraft:
Surprisingly, the scene where the protagonist pilots an F14 fighter jet to lure an alien spaceship into a fight in the canyon was actually filmed with a prop plane...
The aliens seen inside are "real", not computer effects
But to "move", several staff members are needed to assist...
Guardians of the Galaxy
Kamora's actor and the other two masked stand-ins couldn't tell which one was the real one without looking closely...
X-Men
The first magic actress who is putting on makeup is said to take 8 hours to put on each makeup...
"Changing Faces"
The props used in the face-swapping surgery in the movie are not obvious, and they will definitely not let you see that they are fake!
The Witcher of american drama
This dangerous shot, even the whole play, Henry Cavaville did not use a stand-in, the whole stunt was filmed in real time...
Every frame we see in the movie is inseparable from the hard work of the staff in front of and behind the stage...