10 CGI Movie Shots You Never Noticed

10. Marta's Fingers - Knives Out

Knives Out unforgettably ends with Marta (Ana de Armas) emerging triumphant over the entire Thrombey dynasty, in turn inheriting novelist Harlan's (Christopher Plummer) fortune and mansion.

This is cemented by an ingenious final shot in which Martha is shown to be drinking from a coffee mug briefly shown earlier in the film, which reads, "My house, my rules, my coffee!!"

The shot is framed such that Marta's fingers are covering "my rules" and "my coffee," leaving only "my house" visible at the top - a wonderfully witty visual gag which hilariously confirms Marta's victory.

But during editing, filmmaker Rian Johnson realised that the preceding shots of Marta holding the mug gave away the gag too early to keen-eyed audience members, and so had Ana de Armas' finger placement digitally altered to block the words on the mug until the glorious reveal in the final shot.

Though ultimately an incredibly trivial piece of VFX work that most people could learn to do on their laptop in a few hours, it crucially ensures that the closing shot isn't spoiled prematurely and robbed of its departing impact.