10 More Bizarre Ways Directors Tricked Audiences

There are very few shots in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace that don't contain some measure of CGI, and where the divisive Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best) is concerned, it's fair to assume that every single glimpse of him is entirely digital, right?

Not quite. There's a single shot you almost certainly never noticed where a practical Jar Jar is featured - when he gets his hand stuck in one of the engines on Anakin's (Jake Lloyd) podracer.

This was achieved by simply having Best, who also provided the visual reference for Jar Jar on-set, complete with a costume, act out the motion with the practical Jar Jar sleeve worn over his arm.

While George Lucas clearly could've just rendered the shot digitally, he probably saved the production a few thousand bucks by having Best do it the old-fashioned way.

Though it would've been easy for the practical on-set arm to stick out like a sore thumb, it actually blends impressively well into the scene.