20 Things You Somehow Missed In Mad Max: Fury Road

20. There's A LOT More CGI Than You Think

Fury Road is often held up as a triumph of practical filmmaking, with George Miller himself attesting that he shot as much of the film practically as he safely could.

But it actually contains more than 2,000 visual effects shots which were used for a multitude of reasons, such as creating the Citadel and the sandstorm, duplicating crowds from smaller pools of actors, enhancing explosions, compositing actors into unsafe situations, erasing wires, altering the environment, and much more.

Cinematographer John Seale added that almost every shot in the film had some sort of digital manipulation in post-production, and the fact that this is lost on so many viewers is surely a testament to how brilliantly Miller melded the physical with the artificial.

By making great pains to have the lighting match between composited sources, it's entirely believable that most of the action takes place exactly as you see it, despite so much VFX embellishment being employed to sell the illusion.