10 Dangerous Movie Scenes Audiences Refused To Believe Were Faked

In literally the opening minute of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, we glimpse the hallways of infamous stockbroker Jordan Belfort's (Leonardo DiCaprio) firm Stratton Oakmont just as a lion is shown calmly parading amid the office workers.

Though on the face of it one would be led to assume that the scene was faked, this being a Martin Scorsese movie and all, many nevertheless assumed that the master filmmaker found a more devious way to pull it off.

Some believed that the scene was simply shot with the office workers acting silently all while the lion was led through the office by a trainer who was later painted out of the shots.

But that's ultimately only half true.

Indeed, a trainer did lead the lion through the office area and was later digitally removed, but the dozens of office workers in the sequence weren't ever in the same room with the lion, presumably for safety reasons. Rather, they filmed their parts later and were quite seamlessly composited in.

In the hands of other filmmakers it'd be much easier to accept that this was a feat of VFX trickery, but Scorsese being who he is, he's one of the few who could've potentially pulled it off for real.