10 Movie Scenes That Totally Tricked Your Brain

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[@CallMeKes]

The color filter trick also was used in one of the black and white Jekyll and Hyde movies. That's how I originally learned about it. It really is ingenious.

[@Giambijuice]

Dorothy entering a full color Oz from her black and white house was a pretty cool brain tricking shot

[@Saavik256]

For Lt. Dan and his missing lower legs, they also had a wheelchair especially built so that Gary Sinise could hide his legs *inside it*, thus reducing reliance on CGI.

[@sarahclapp505]

The last one ❤wow❤

[@davidchism6081]

Ingenious for the time yeah.

[@Lumibear.]

It’s not terribly well explained though so please allow me: the actress wears white make up covered with red shading, the camera has a colour wheel filter that smoothly changes from a red to a blue of the same shade as one another, because we are seeing everything in black & white we don’t notice the red makeup because the red filter makes everything into a uniform red, meaning red colours merge into the lighter shades, but as the filter turns from red to blue, because red cannot pass through blue the blue filter makes all the red makeup stand out in dark contrast to the white, which in B&W makes it appear black, and as an extra bonus her naturally blue eyes also go from dark to clear. To demonstrate the same effect at home simply draw with a red pen on a black & white image then wear red and blue 3D glasses, if you wink one eye then the other the red will appear and disappear. This is also the basis of red/blue stereoscopic 3D as used in early black & white movies, such as It Came From Outer Space and The Creature From The Black Lagoon, each eye only sees one side of two overlayed images printed in red and blue, when a scene was filmed by two similarly placed lenses and printed this way the brain can reinterpret the end result as having depth. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. ;)

[@YouHaveReachedBob]

The use of twins in Terminator 2 was pretty damn genius. Not just the mirror scene.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Right? There were so many, too. The "coffee cop" guy, for one. Or... is that TWO? 😁

[@comfortassist3134]

Interstellar - the score with the ticking clock. I've seen that movie at least 20 times and the ticking clock STILL gets me. It ratchets the tension all the way up for me and makes me feel the impending doom of running out of time better than any other movie experience I can recall.

[@rookmorrigan8379]

The Spirder-Man Miles framerate was one of my favorite tricks they did. But it also turned some of my friends off from the movie because they subconsciously recognized the offputting movements and thought the entire movie was like that. When I explained what was going on, they are now more interested in seeing the movie.

[@jabp8]

Spirder

[@thewhitewolf58]

Feel like they were more of a revolution for animated movies. It was not just traditional animated drawings on screen or some phoned in cgi. But instead looked like a movie being filmed in a comic book world with whatever animation sold the scene the best at the moment.

[@jfess1911]

The effect mentioned in Star Wars only shows up in older versions and not the clips shown in this video since the original in DVD-quality is hard to find. In 1997, George Lucas replaced the original scenes of the landspeeder with a digitally enhanced ones and that is the one typically found on DVD and Blu-Ray. The vasoline on the lens mentioned in this video made the original a bit blurry.

[@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326]

I hate to tell you this, but the first time Star Wars got a DVD release was in 2004. So you can guess that it was the digitally remastered versions you got. So there you have to look in to VHS and LaserDisc releases done prior to 1997 of the original theatrical versions and there you begin to find releases from 1995 and backwards. In 1995 you got the so called "Faces" trilogy release with covers showing Darth Vader on eps 4, a Stormtrooper on eps 5 and Yoda on eps 6.

[@jfess1911]

@@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326 I have read that a "Limited Edition" set of 2 DVDs was made that included the earlier editions as bonus materials. It seems it is currently available online so I think I might order it, just for grins.

[@bitemykrank1970]

Forgetting Luke's Speeder in Star Wars, I can't watch the original now without seeing the polymer sheets that the x-wings, tie fighters and all the transport ships and so on were painted on in the battle scenes. Even with them being digitally removed for the DVD releases and later, I still see the damn things in my brain. I wish I's never seen the behind the scenes documentary on the making of the movie, it was the same show that showed them hitting the guy wires on power towers to get the sound that became the blaster sound effect.

[@baxterwilson368]

1:07 “You may not have noticed by looking at it…” Uh, yeah, I noticed. 😂

[@al201103]

Shout out to La Haine for an equally impressive (though probably cheaper) mirror shot. Very similar technique. And though it's been shown a million times, I do think the Charlie Chaplin roller skating shot is pretty well executed. Cool list though, I enjoyed this :)

[@richardjamesgallardojr.7584]

How much money would it take to make Paul WS Anderson reshoot the lost footage from event horizon

[@Thompc82]

I like all Jules videos. Period.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

I knew of all of these except the Spidey one (never saw the film) and the Octo one (never heard of it, but DAT'S AWESOME).

[@berendharmsen]

It would have made more sense to use Star Wars footage from the original release to illustrate the mirror gag for the landspeeder. These shots were all from the special edition where everything was painted over by cgi, so they don't really show the point.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

True, but at this point, ANY footage from SW IV, V, VI, and I-III is really a breath of fresh air, ya know?

[@berendharmsen]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat True

[@myredenvelopes]

#1 -- A similar technique was used in 1936's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, starring Fredric March, with the added bonus of seeing it in a first-person perspective as you watch the transformation s though you were looking in a mirror.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content guys ❤❤❤❤

[@brianartillery]

The Exorcist is one of the least scary, and funniest pictures of all time. And bee sounds? I find bees to be very calming indeed. And that isn't an aquarium in Doctor No. It's the Caribbean. No had the sea cliff cut away, and the window installed. At a cost of "One Million Dollars." - And this is from the original 1958 novel, Chapter 14: 'Come Into My Parlour'.

[@thewhitewolf58]

The interesting thing I have noticed is that its hard to make a very scary, mature or edgy movie, but it is extremely easy to slip up and make a comedy movie. Because comedy is what happens when the other themes you try to use happen to fail on you. Like the room is meant to be a drama but due to bad acting and an alien writing the script the drama keep folding into pure comedy.

[@JusticeforBob1]

I've seen it 167 times, and it gets funnier EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! 😅

[@HerbertAckermans]

Leslie Hamilton died age 63 on August 22, 2020 due to Covid-19...

[@garethhiley6388]

I'd seriously be amazed if anyone actually thought the aquarium in Dr No was real....... Its absolutely clearly not real 😂😂

[@whitedevil2]

but you ain't got no legs, Lt. Dan!

[@markjames8603]

The Flash Gordon serials from the 40's used a statue that was actually metal filings held together by an electromagnet, Ming points a "disintegrating" Ray-gun at the statue, the magnet is turned off and the statue melts live on camera😊

[@marlonmagdadaro4165]

The "young Ellie running upstairs to the bathroom to get the pills" scene in Contact (1997) in my opinion also belongs in this list.

[@b00merism]

I know, right?

[@do9138]

I saw The Exorcist when it came out on a screen that was two stories or more high. Very scary.

[@zoeherriot]

All the Star Wars shots you showed don't have the effect you mention as they are the touched up versions from the special editions.

[@thewhitewolf58]

Do like george but it feels like with star wars he treats the fillms like they are a film thats 80 percent done being made and your paying money to him for an early showing. The triliogy gets so many changes that i feel like im playing a live service video game.

[@jooei2810]

That aquarium is definitely not a VIDEO projection…

[@SilverSpectre266]

The Spiderman animation tricked people so well that it started a trend and following it, a bunch of studios started copying it for their own movies, only instead of it being a quirk of the character, it was just the legit style of the movie. TMNT: Mutant Mayhem. Mitchells vs the Machines. The Bad Guys. Puss in Boots: Last Wish. Etc.

[@lunamotionproductions9559]

Almost all hand-drawn animated movies were "shot on twos," i.e. one drawing shot twice in a row for 24 frames. Yes, even the Disney classics. (Unless some really tricky effect -- such as slow motion or water -- was required to animate at 24 frames per second.) Disney movies looked great because the animators were amazing, but there was no way to finish them in time/budget if they had to animate every single frame, 24 per second.

[@lunamotionproductions9559]

The Star Wars land speeder footage clip is NOT the original mirror on the bottom shot because Lucas completely replaced it with a CGI paint job. The prints of the original Star Wars films have been withheld from the public for decades. Also you only show ONE rear projection shot from Eyes Wide Shut. (Cruise walking towards the camera/viewer). All the others you show in the video were shot on the physical backlot that Kubrick meticulously reconstructed at Pinewood Studios in London. And BTW, the rear projection footage of the giant fish tank in Dr. No is NOT VIDEO. In 1962 features were only shot on FILM. Your research team is hella lay--zeee!

[@jedgould5531]

0:55 the fish are not in slow motion, which would have been easy. When is the AI going to say, “iconic?”

[@jedgould5531]

People knew who Gary Sinese was. Stop the ai - produced videos.

[@42speedybeattie]

The frame rate difference on the animated Spider-Man movie gave me a literal headache. The story is great, but I can’t watch the movie without becoming physically ill.

[@SuperLocrian]

Friedkin was a badass genius!

[@The-Joker616]

Every time Jules is on a video, it's got very low views. Get rid of him. Jules mom tricked my brain when she used her tongue. My one per list😂 Jules mom has the best mouth, let's say it. OF ALL TIME

[@daegiovanni5864]

...you okay, buddy?

[@jfess1911]

In Forrest Gump, my brain picked up that the movements of Gary Sinise were not right for someone without lower legs. Of course I knew that he had legs, but his body movement is what bothered me. With no lower legs, the center of gravity and rotational intertia (resistance to rotation) changes and, or course, there are no lower legs to hinder movements. This is very apparent as he gets back into the wheelchair at 4:40 and 5:15 (his lower legs dragging on the floor).. The way he is sitting at 4:53 also is not right for someone with out lower legs. His torso is leaning too far back for someone without the counterweight of lower legs, feet and shoes). It would have been possible to deal with the balance issues by using counterweights, but that would have changed the rotational intertia and center of gravity even more.

[@bnardpolo96]

Not movies, but the grear trick was xena shorter than gabrielle

[@HariSeldon913]

Not sure what you've been smoking, but Snoop wants some.

[@mjn84]

„Thank you“ for not giving us any example of those „genious“ sounds from number two. Total waste.

[@hypercomms2001]

0:57 / 12:14... Its... Film baby! ... not video!

[@johnsampy9807]

I'm Surprise That An American Werewolf In London Isn't On The List

[@paulbarry7672]

No harm but that Eyes Wide Shut shot even looked rubbish 25 years ago.

[@Spillage66]

Most of these clips are obvious to the point of not working.

[@denisruskin348]

As a PC gamer, I had to leave the Spiderverse movies because I was getting nausea from the super low frame rate in Miles. Some call it creative, I call it an unnecessary gimmick.

[@kanedaku]

Its the complete opposite of a gimmick. It was a visual companion to the antagonist's journey, They just explained it in the video. That's like saying we, the viewers, being able to see the Predator is a gimmick, when its a visualisation to aid the audience whilst the characters in-film could not see it.

[@denisruskin348]

@@kanedaku That's fair, but as I sdaid, my trained eye was expecting 24fps across the board and I didn't get that.Scenes with heavy motion were unbearable for me.

[@kanedaku]

@@denisruskin348 No problem with that, I just disagree that it was a gimmick. It was done for a specific purpose, not just because.🙂

[@Outrack]

“Trained eye”, lol. Was prolonged exposure to lowly console peasantry beyond you?

[@denisruskin348]

@@Outrack baby girl I game on a RTX 4080 PC and a 240Hz screen. You know what, stop making assumptions. Doesn’t work.

[@GSDesignStudioUK]

I hated Miles being animated on 2's... it just looked so Janky, and took me out the fim

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

Yeah, because who watches movies for the story being told? Such silliness!

[@GSDesignStudioUK]

@@ChristophBrinkmann I understand the reasons behind it, but for me personally, it just took me out of it.