Unlike the five-cent special effects that make people play in some serials, the visual effects of cinema movies are always immersive.
Just as there are no superheroes in the real world, how do those wild images in the movie come to fruition?
Recently, on boredpanda, some netizens sorted out behind-the-scenes photos of cool special effects screens in 25 classic movies. These photos show the magic that gives the film a magical effect on the basis of models, masks, and even robots made by the crew without using the computer to synthesize images.
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2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
To make the pen look like it was floating in the air, the crew glued the pen to a large piece of glass and then spun the glass up to give it a floating feeling.
△ Film-to-film effect.
Jaws, 1975
If you can't tame a real shark, build an electric shark.
The Shining, 1980
Stanley Kubrick is filming the famous hotel maze scene.
Independence Day, 1996
The 1996 highest-grossing film used model and computer-composited image technology on special effects shots. About 80% of the effects are models, while the other 20% are digitally made.
Jurassic Park, 1993
A real-scale Tyrannosaurus rex made in the studio.
Alien e.t., 1982
The film crew draped a white cloth with two holes over the camera, mimicking the alien's perspective.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999).
In the Speed Shuttle Competition, the audience in the stands was filmed under 450,000 colored cotton swabs prepared by special effects engineer Michael Lynch. He inserted cotton swabs into the grandstand model, and for a more realistic effect, the film crew also placed fan-blown cotton swabs under the stands.
Zombie Bride 2005
Crew members are placing shooting models.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).
Dwarf actor Kenny Baker, who was eating sandwiches on set, is well known to fans for playing the robot R2-d2 in the Star Wars series.
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
The actual shooting scene of the film's iconic opening credits. The camera shoots subtitles at the screen.
The Dark Knight (2008).
To shoot the scene, director Christopher Nolan set up a hospital, and of course, heath Ledger played the Joker who really blew it up with a bomb.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991
The crew is placing model car props, and in this scene, Schwarzenegger rides a Harley motorcycle to make an indelible impression on the people of that era.
True Lies, 1994
A photograph of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis shooting helicopter shots for an action movie. For the film, the U.S. government provided three Marine Corps Harrier fighter jets and their pilots for $100,736.
Labyrinth of Magic (1986).
To shoot this scene, the crew made more than 100 pairs of latex hands.
The Matrix 1999
In a scene where Neo reaches for the doorknob, the reflection of the handle can't hide the camera, so the photographer camouflages it with a coat and a tie to match the clothes Morpheus is wearing.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014
Director Wes Anderson is directing actors to perform a scene by a train window. The coldness shown by Ralph Fiennes in this scene is really cold...
Alien 3, 1992
The actors sat down between filming breaks. Performing aliens is a heavy physical task, and clothes made of latex can give people the feeling of having trouble breathing.
Changing Faces, 1997
The silicone sleeve worn by the actor when filming the face change.
The Hunt for Red October, 1990
The actor is in the props inside the submarine war room.
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids Down, 1989
A huge robotic prop used to shoot scenes of bees flying. In the post-production of the film, some computer special effects were also added.
Men in Black, 1997
What the aliens in the movie look like in reality.
The Great Escape from New York, 1981
There's a scene in the movie where the police are looking at a digital map of the city. At that time, the modeling technology was not advanced enough to build a real model.
Out of the Sea of Hell, 1980
Divers towed the 55-foot (about 16.7-meter) Titanic model to a specified location.
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).
Director George Lucas poses with the Death Star in Star Wars.
The Legend of the Demon Palace 2, 1984
The crew is filming footage of a plane crash.
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Editor: Li Kaixiang