10 Dangerous Movie Scenes Audiences Refused To Believe Were Faked

Mad Max: Fury Road is one of cinema's all-time great examples of a movie that looks like it features a lot less CGI than it actually does, with director George Miller expertly melding practical stunt work with exceptionally integrated VFX.

Of the film's impressively "invisible" digital stunt work, Steven Soderbergh famously said, "I don't understand how they're not still shooting and I don't understand how hundreds of people aren't dead."

There are many stunts throughout the film which audiences were led to believe were executed for real in the deserts of Namibia, including the memorable late-film beat where a member of the all-female Vuvalini clan, Valkyrie (Megan Gale), dives under Immortan Joe's (Hugh Keays-Byrne) vehicle as it drives towards her and another member of the Vuvalini.

To look at it, it "simply" looks like Megan Gale - or at best, her stunt double - literally hits the deck and stays low while the car actually drives over the top of her in a carefully choreographed stunt.

Yet a VFX breakdown confirms the more sensible truth, that the shot was filmed in two parts - one take of Gale hitting the deck, and another of the car driving over the road, which were then expertly composited together in post-production.

But the end result is completely seamless, and combined with both the first-rate stunt team and George Miller's penchant for doing things the hard way, makes it easy to believe that it might've been done for real.