10 Movie Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You

10. That's No Moon, It's A Matte Painting - Star Wars

Though still possessing some of the most ground-breaking and cutting edge special effects available at the time, the team behind the Original Trilogy of Star Wars films had to think on their feet on more than a few occasions when trying to pull off various cinematic illusions for their galaxy far, far away.

And while puppets, models, and sets were all brilliantly utilised at times over the course of that first critically adored set of features, another tool was effectively snuck onto our screens in the most gorgeous of ways.

Brilliantly tricking those who filed into cinemas to witness the villainous antagonists assembling in The Empire Strikes Back, a beautiful matte painting - one of many used in bringing the Original flicks to life - was designed to be used as the backdrop for the scene. While the naked eye fools us into believing that this is in fact a huge hanger set filled with stormtrooper extras, in reality it's the work of a highly skilled artist adding layers upon layers of painted troops and a whole inter-galactic space docking point behind a few real extras.