10 Movie Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You

[@delsus7580]

My favourrite "tricking" you scene is the Terminator reboor scene in Terminatorr 2. The "mirror" you are seeing is actually just a border, with the real actors playing the reflection, with Linda Hamiltons sister playing her double. This was to make sure no lights or cameras were seen in the "mirrors" reflection.

[@JStryker47]

Leslie also plays the T-1000 impersonating Sarah. And when he impersonates the asylum security guard, you guessed it, it's the guard actor's twin brother.

[@mikicoal]

I think it was also done that way so they could open up the Terminator's head while he's visibly conscious.

[@willmfrank]

Rouben Mamoulian used a similar technique in 1932 to put the audience in Dr. Jekyll's point of view: as the camera approaches the "mirror," Fredric March steps into view from behind the set. The Marx brothers also borrowed the mirror gag, having lifted the scene almost shot for shot from a Max Linder picture.

[@dennislogan6781]

T2 coffee machine scene where the T1000 poses as a guard and kills the original guard. The guards are twin brothers who have done several films.

[@eriklehnsherr5784]

As far as The Matrix goes, i heard on the old DVD box set of extras, that the Wachowski's chose to use so many twins in that one scene to emphasize how the machines think. By reusing and copying things to be more efficient. Which is also why most the set pieces inside the Matrix (like the building they held Morpheous hostage) the walls where just perfect bland square tile design.

[@alm2187]

Tiles in construction would be how the machines think, sure. Twins in that one scene more likely reflect programmer expedience. It was a bit zealous, though, for whomever wrote this video's copy to single out Mouse as being lazy. He claims design credit for the Woman In Red character, and that's all we know. Indeed, it MIGHT follow that he wrote and/or directed the whole agent-training program, but there are too many unknowns to be sure. Did humans invent Matrix-type simulations, or did machines create it first, for us? How do escaped Zionites acquire the tech to create "constructs?" How many resources, or how much time and effort, does it take to create unique simulations of people? Was Mouse the sole creative controller of the training sim, or did was he getting directions and/or help on it? Do expedients like copy/pasting people get the programmer scoffed at or is this encouraged? The major unanswered mystery of the scene is why a Smith is in it. You'd expect it to be a generic Agent. Have they seen Smith enough to draw him from memory, yet not know his name? Can the image translators memorize his code and recreate it?

[@sheldonadams2847]

In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, there's an montage of Chuck giving a tour of work. That was all one take with Sam Rockwell running behind the scene to hit his next mark. That still blows my mind

[@alm2187]

Reminds me of that tidbit from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Something about Jim not believing the BTS quick change artistry he was called upon to do was possible. Had to exit frame and practically parkour around to rejoin Kate, having changed into his character's wardrobe at a different age. He was required to keep trying, so he pulled it off.

[@Ater_Draco]

Can't believe it's 10 years since Michael Clarke Duncan died. RIP Big man Also, Ifans is pronounced ihv-ans. In Welsh, f = v, and ff= f.

[@kennykiller]

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[@Ater_Draco]

@@kennykiller haven't heard that "joke" before. Here's a lollipop 🍭 , little guy

[@thegorramhero]

0:00 Intro 0:19 10. That's No Moon It's A Matte Painting - Star Wars 1:18 9. It wasn't That Rainy At All - Crawl 2:13 8. Pepper's Ghost Brings Pesci's Fiery Head to Life - Home Alone 3:09 7. Real Life Twins Subconsciously Melt Your Mind - The Matrix 4:18 6. Michael Clarke Duncan Isn't Actually That Tall - The Green Mile 5:12 5. That's Not A Real Highway - Sicario 6:12 4. Familiar Twins Help Pull Off A Mirrored Marvel - Last Night in SOHO 7:16 3. Reese Witherspoon's Hair Wasn't Available - Legally Blonde 8:14 2. Thomas Haden Church & Rhys Ifans Never Actually Set Foot on Set - Spider-Man: No Way Home 9:11 1. Kristen Stewart's Feet Weren't What They Seemed - Underwater 10:16 Closing

[@gregbasore2108]

The trick from Under Water was also used in Captain America: First Avenger. The scene where Cap chases down a Hydra agent while running barefoot through NYC was filmed with Chris Evans wearing boots sculpted to look like his bare feet.

[@Kytetiger]

Same for Vanessa Kirby in Fast and Furious Hobbs and Shaw. On bts pictures, it even looks like hobbit's feet 😄

[@Whookieee]

I wonder where those Chris-Evans-feet shoes are now

[@seanriley4006]

In X-Men (original movie) the scene where the kids are playing basketball outside, and one of the kids morphs from one place to place on the court was done using triplet brothers.

[@pjkorab]

It's a weirdly specific coincidence, that Jodie Foster had to wear similar foot protection while walking around broken glass in Panic Room - the film co-starring a then 12-year-old Kristen Stewart.

[@HarithKasnawi]

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[@Ceares]

or maybe Kristen just remembered that and suggested it to protect her feet.

[@robertbruce8864]

The obvious omission is the 2 Hamilton sisters in the mirror scene in T2

[@jacktribble5253]

You could probably do a whole bit on Jackie Chan and the clever ways FX people have hidden the casts he's had to wear. Broken foot? I have a stunt shoot in twenty minutes...

[@ChrisSMITH-rt8yq]

I was an extra on Captain America: The First Avenger in the 1940's scenes when Cap is made, when he's chasing the Hydra agent in his bare feet, Chris Evans was actually wearing rubber 'feet like' books to look like his bare feet.

[@abebuckingham8198]

The mirror cabinet scene from "Contact" is one of the coolest illusions I've see in film. Even knowing how they did it I find it unbelievable.

[@alm2187]

John Coffee (only not spelt the same) had a heart of gold but not the best cognitive faculty. Kingpin was a highly competent leader, albeit of a criminal empire. I was left wanting to see Michael Clarke Duncan play a very smart good-guy.

[@deadcatthinks6725]

Bear in Armageddon? Rig engineers are clever, and he was a good guy too.

[@alm2187]

What other heroic characters are thought of as both brainy and brawny? MCD was arguably TOO brawny to be Captain America.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

But you spelt it the same! 😂😂😂

[@kawh8719]

@5:56, It's actually supposed to be El Paso, TX/Ciduad Juarez border crossing, not Arizona.

[@dday906]

I'm pretty sure everyone could tell that fact about Sandman and Lizard for No Way Home. Especially if you saw all the previous movies before. The fact they didn't take Sandman out of sand mode, nor that Lizard didn't require more shots to remain Lizard was the clear case for them not being there, physically.

[@carolfigueirars]

Yeah, I never thought they were there either.

[@faizfuad8361]

Both Sandman and Lizard looking at their hand when transformed back, you can almost be sure was from a scene of their respective previous Spider-man movies.

[@michaelpino550]

The pool scene in Grown ups, in reality those actors are freezing in a rainstorm. I should know because I was an extra and we were all freezing and being told to think "warm thoughts". The scene was changed to the finished product in post production.

[@Number6_]

And with winter coming on you are still being told to think warm thoughts!

[@vultan2000]

I think there’s a great scene deleted from T2 where a model of Arnold and Linda Hamilton were used opposite Arnold and her twin sister to show the terminator’s skull being opened up for adjustment in a mirror.

[@rockero1313]

I think Matte painting (always loved this) and body doubles/twins are the 2 of the oldest "tricking you" things in cinema

[@Whalewraith]

Underwater was a great flick, very underated. Was that Cthulhu at the end? Loved it.

[@shawnparkspost]

I saw an interview with the director that confirms it was Cthulhu.

[@pateris]

@@shawnparkspost Most indeedy !

[@magnuskallas]

I think my favourite is still Apocalypse Now and the way it managed to capture Brando as this strong spec-ops vet and not... a man of food and booze hedonism.

[@codygrinnell8676]

underwater was a great movie!!

[@koa022]

Wasn't the first time the disguised shoes trick was used . In Rumble in the Bronx, Jackie Chan used a sock painted as a shoe over his cast after breaking his foot when he jumped on a hovercraft

[@disneysparkle7783]

Although this is probably one that is known, another Star Wars movie had someone never on the set. In Episode II, when they are on Naboo, the one ambassador isn't actually on set. All of his stuff was shot wherever he was (I can't remember where or why) and added in. It is very noticeable when they are going down the stairs that he isn't there.

[@frankmoniz1467]

These tricks are treats.

[@leesherman5192]

The one that blew my mind was that Commander Cody's armor and body were completely computer generated, even when he took the helmet off.

[@brianr5665]

I was kinda hoping for mention of Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space... But maybe I hope for too much...

[@magnuskallas]

Yeah, that set the par quite high. Though, funny aside, it was innovative!

[@cphtfluke7565]

The Highway scene in Matrix Reloaded. There were, at most, only about half as many cars as their appeared to be.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Straw Dogs (the original) used a very effective trick to create discomfort and tension with the viewer. Sam Peckinpah lined up the actors in such a way that when the film cut back and forth between shots, they weren't looking directly at each other but instead a small number of degrees off. So it wasn't enough for anyone watching the movie to notice that it was off-kilter, but it was just enough to give the viewer an uneasy feeling when watching it. This also resulted in someone going behind Peckinpah's back to the studio with complaints that the film couldn't be properly edited, which lead producer Daniel Melnick to not only fire the guy but also to get him the hell out of there before Peckinpah got word of it and given his "Bloody Sam" nickname a whole new meaning.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

@@AtheistOrphan It's a shame that Straw Dogs isn't analyzed more because there's a lot of brilliant aspects in it that get overlooked and/or ignored. But, you know... THAT scene (which, to be fair, is one of the most "THAT scene" scenes in "THAT scene" history, but still, it's no reason for that movie to be discounted like it has just because of THAT scene).

[@chrismanuel9768]

Honestly that sounds more like they fucked up the framing of the scene and then the director claimed it was on purpose because he's a genius after he realized the mistake.

[@Ceares]

@@ArcherSuh4721 sort of proves the gratuitous nature of many of "those scenes", if it's enough to completely distract from/override the rest of the movie, which scenes are not meant to do. Movies are supposed to work as a whole. Sure, certain scenes are meant to stand out but not to the level that they overwhelm the complete work.

[@medo5417]

CGI has seriously advanced so much in the last decade its terrifying

[@ranwolf1240]

wasn't there a Jackie Chan movie where he wore a cast painted to look like a sneaker?

[@caronstout354]

Yes...Rumble in the Bronx.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

A rubber sock painted like his shoe was slipped over his plaster cast. Good memory remembering that one! 😉👍

[@TalentCaldwell]

Aren’t just about ALL movies designed to trick you (into believing what you’re seeing)? 🤔 There are countless variations of every example picked here: • the use of real-life twins (T2, STAY), • hiding an actor’s broken limb (both of Renner’s arms in TAG), • faked body parts (BOOGIE NIGHTS, SKYFALL, THIS IS 40, the murkin), • fake highway (MATRIX RELOADED), • artificial performances (Luke and Moff Tarkin in STAR WARS, CG characters), • matte painting backgrounds (pick any), • etc.

[@roguebantha7324]

I also heard the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren't real...

[@jimroscovius]

@@roguebantha7324 They were big puppets.

[@magnuskallas]

I might be wrong, but one of the first uses of archive footage and CGI that kind of cheated the viewer were on display in The Gladiator.

[@TalentCaldwell]

@@magnuskallas Not the first, but that was one of them. They employed similar tricks in the CROW after Brandon Lee died and also the same for his father Bruce who had only filmed about 25% of GAME OF DEATH before his death.

[@thecreed7509]

I had no idea the scene in Sicario wasn't filmed on a real highway. Last thing I expected to see on this list Bravo

[@reijek990]

The best special effects are those that blend so well they aren't noticeable.

[@rocketdude2969]

George Lucas invented the no really there thing in the original star wars movies and then continued it in the prequel trilogy . In fact there where entire sets and characters in scenes that where never together . This technique was recently used in the justice League Snyder cut with the batman and joker nightmare world scene .

[@ericmaclin315]

Chris Evan's shoe feet running in the first Captain America.

[@mattyt1961]

thank you, i couldn't remember where else I had head of the shoe feet before....

[@caitlinplays7456]

also in the first Die Hard, you can actually see them if you pause correctly.

[@abcde_fz]

02:40 If you look closely at the cabinet to the right of Joe Pesci, you can just barely see part of the set that's behind the camera reflected in the glass between Pesci and the camera. It's a fairly ghostly reflection just below the flamethrower.

[@leesennhauser]

The matrix reloaded built a fake highway to pull off the Morpheus and agent fight. Carrie Moss had to keep driving back and forth to make it look legit.

[@geoffcas]

Wait, are you telling me George Lucas didn't build an entire planet and place his cast and crew in orbit to film a scene? Whoa, mind blown! A weak entry this time.

[@YouTube_Disciple_YTD_Demon]

As a kid I always thought John Coffee was really that big … and yes it carried on to my adulthood too until probably just now lol

[@jimroscovius]

Duncan was a fairly big guy. He was in Two and a Half Men, and he was big.

[@howardpope3932]

The hangar with the stormtroopers is in "The Return of the Jedi" not "The Empire Strikes Back".

[@Number6_]

While I'm not really interested in that, the thumb nail to get me here really speaks to me! As the commercial says before your video. I like her like that.

[@malte1984]

I know about that Matrix twin thing for years and have seen this scene a million times... but I got to be honest, It never worked with me. even if I try to look out for it I barely recognize any twins. sure, some but not enough to go whaaaaat?

[@ArcherSuh4721]

I'm not sure if that means the sequence was a success or a failure.

[@ceilinh6004]

I think it's just meant to convey a subconcious sense of unreality.

[@malte1984]

@@ceilinh6004 yeah but that's my point... in movies, unless done really clever and carefully, that just doesn't work. If you see an extra more that two times it could also just be a bad cut or a continuity error. I always concentraited on Morpheus and Neo in this scene befor knowing that and it was just a nother scene in the movie... the only thing that seemed "off" to me was the esoteric way the dialog was written and the fact that everything had a green tint.

[@cameronliddell9533]

in the screenshot they used (3m 49 sec) the two bald guys in front right behind each other are twins. They are the only ones in that particular shot. most of the twins are only walking a couple meters behind each other so you dont see them in the same shot except that one specific moment where i can spot up to 7 pairs of twins easily

[@luisseniceros7350]

Vince McMahon stood Andre The Giant on milk crates to make him seem even taller than already was.

[@ojmcclanahan689]

Where did you hear that from? lol

[@Cabochon1360]

Did you think movie viewers thought those Star Wars scenes were shot in an actual giant space dock? Using standard visual effects isn't "tricking" us.

[@sagebuzz]

5:20 Now who the hell is denise ville'noose ? 😅

[@jeffreyelya9996]

I can't believe it's not butter!! There are plenty of movies that use the green screen/blue screen effect, and it stretches as far back, if I recall into the 60s when the blue screen was first being used. An example? In Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the scene where Tippi Hedren's character is attacked by a single bird uses a combination of intercutting the blue screen by shooting the scene with a fake bird being layered underneath footage of a live bird cropped seamlessly over top to get the effect right.

[@kylewindere2133er]

Pleassssse do a “top 10 action scenes with no music just raw fight sounds or car chase audio”

[@josepheatherton355]

T2 has Linda Hamilton’s twin sister in the mirror.

[@spectreagent]

One thing that wasn’t mentioned about the movie Crawl, Was that in addition to the tricky CGI effects, is that the film itself, which supposedly takes place in Florida, was shot entirely in Serbia!

[@cenexxis]

A good CGI doesn´t make alone a good Movie! The Acting with it is THE Key!

[@mutantsheepofdoom]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The shot with the characters crossing Khazad Dum was entirely CGI.

[@OldHumbleDistillingCompany]

You mean, they didn't ACTUALLY LIGHT JOE PECCI ON FIRE?!?!?!?!

[@alm2187]

Well, can't prove my mind wasn't subconsciously melted the first time, but I might never have noticed all the duplicate extras in the Agent-Training Program if they hadn't pointed it out in bts features.

[@lenking8994]

Tricked into watching another WhatCulture video making mountains out of molehills. These are all just film-making tools, not "tricks". More fool me for clicking on it

[@sabin1981]

Talks about how all these "MAGIC!111" scenes were made, doesn't actually show you. Nice, thanks.

[@ThornOfSociety]

With the number 1 entry they did a similar thing for Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger when he chases after the Nazi sleeper agent while bare foot.

[@Aguzman0077]

Dirks diggler at the end of Boogie Nights

[@netgnostic1627]

The North Pole school classroom scene in Elf - Will Ferrell looks huge and the other actors look tiny even though they seem to be right beside him. They're actually something like 12 feet back. The room is not rectangular at all. The perspective is distorted in the way the set was built. No special effects in that scene.

[@ThereThere882]

Love Crawl!! I think is an underated film

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

...and Gary Sinise walked away from the set of Forrest Gump with his real legs.

[@jeremieboudreau4988]

Hey, don't know if you'll see this but I'm french canadian and just wanted to say your pronunciation of D-E-N-I were perfect, but you shouldn't emphasis the S. In french, this name S is silent and in the way you said it it sound like denise, which is pretty funny ahah.

[@trevorbrown6654]

One of the most famous is in the James bond movie 'Diamonds are forever'. To escape a police car in Las Vegas Bond drives his car through a narrow alleyway on its side using two wheels. When it comes out of the alleyway it's still on its side but the continuity people screwed up and its now turned on the other side. When the director viewed the rushes in England he realised this and it was too late to go back to the US and refilm . Instead the clever fix to the continuity problem was to film a scene of Bond and his passenger from the front in a studio and and subtly slide the picture from one side to the other, almost as if the car had the magical ability to flip 180 degree's in an alleyway about 5 ft wide. It sounds ridiculous yet it totally fooled audiences as it was many years before anybody noticed how impossible this was and that it was covering up an error.

[@ajspice]

The one with the mirror is painfully obvious. They should have used CG for that.

[@jamalvargas6146]

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[@Theopheus]

Yeah. None of us have ever heard of using a painting in the background in the late 70's. Whatever, WhatCulture.

[@Tylerdurdenx7]

In the social network, the twins aren’t really twins. It’s the same actor. That tricked me

[@anothercleverusername992]

The _"No Way Home"_ one, I felt was pretty obvious. It was just a reversed shot of Sandman when he is "cured "... and the Lizard one was just an actual shot from _Amazing Spider-Man,_ just with added shadow.

[@balockaybumblebee]

Biggest issue I have with crawl... basements aren't a thing in Florida

[@OldHumbleDistillingCompany]

Are you telling me that Star Wars wasnt.... REAL?!?!?!?! You mean they used back drops and matte paintings??!!!?!?! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[@marklowther3228]

What? Movies use practical and special effects to trick us? No way!

[@kylehighclub5967]

The Nostromo in Alien was had lights on the 1/4 scale model. they were just fairy lights with some having tape added to block/dim them.

[@Number6_]

Look at alien or other horror/sifi films, even the chase with Kristy swanson. All you really need is a partially dressed pretty girl and something, anything really to chase her, an old formula going back to silent films. Always the making of a good film.

[@GregHassler]

Michael Clarke Duncan is 6' 5". I wouldn't call him "not that tall". And he's 315 lbs. It's not really much of a trick to make him look big.

[@JohnKessler]

how do you not have A Beautiful Mind on this list??

[@pablobratcat]

Looking at the Owlkitty making of clips reveals a lot of tinkery!

[@LilTy702]

No way home can be excused with the 2 actors missing, they return for voices but it’s most likely cause of scheduling conflicts in covid

[@sevansnake369]

weird to frame practical effects as "tricks" lol like.....it's not a trick? a trick would be them telling us they actually lit joe pesci on fire for that scene

[@Hamza1.0]

I just watched underwater last night

[@bodhiswayze1892]

Oh Hollywood, you cheeky little minx...

[@doormatt72]

10:00 the finished footage - i see what you did there. XD

[@tobyjamison6801]

The mirror scene in T2

[@PHXDOG]

Sacario took place in TX not AZ

[@k24civic]

Duncan was 6’4.5 so yes he was pretty fucking tall

[@bigmandennis9121]

At 4:12 pause. U can notice 2 make twins partially bald walking near each other and the woman with the pigtails, both walking in opposite directions. I know there r others, those 2 to me were most noticeable

[@litigioussociety4249]

The first one was stupid, because the Star Wars scenes people think of in the hangars are the times when Vader and the Emperor arrive on their shuttles. Each time all the stormtroopers we're actual extras.

[@robertpierce6436]

The ping-pong ball in Forest Gump.

[@ChesuMori]

…you talk about the Star Wars painting, and then don’t actually show that scene? Why?

[@g1015m]

I still think Underwater is an underrated movie.

[@Number6_]

From the look of it here it is starting to look that way.

[@TheTedwms83]

I picked up on my way home pretty quickly

[@brucenatelee]

So, the Matrix Cyberpunked (2077) us this whole time.

[@mstrasser]

Biggest matte painting surprise for me was the ending to Die Hard 2. that wide shot of the plane, airport, snow, people, firetruck etc etc when the credit go up. all fake.

[@CDBookManGaming]

I'm till distracted by the Woman in Red. Can't help it.

[@Number6_]

Another scene that is tricking you that wasn't mentioned is why Stuart has no shirt? I have seen military girls and unfortunately none of them walked around in just a bra and a big leather jacket. Not having seen the film does she lose the jeans at some point too? No shirt no shoes no service ! This could be the characters problem underwater.

[@satyrosphilbrucato9140]

Crawl was a hell of a lot better than it had any right to be. Damned good film all 'round.

[@undeadchainsaw]

The same feet work that Kristen Stewart did for the movie underwater Chris Evans did for captain America the first avenger. After he transformed from skinny Steve into the hulking Captain America he ran through a town barefoot. On set he and his double wore fake feet.

[@MrEandc4life]

Gareth!

[@kristopherlewis6074]

That was el Paso

[@hippiefreak66]

everyone is shorter than James Cromwell

[@hendrixlynch5918]

I have never heard the name Villanueva pronounced like that. Gee wiz.

[@cl759]

Is Gareth the one with big guns Any guns in this video Asking 4 a friend Of course

[@stoveguy2133]

I love Kristen Stewart.