10 More Movie Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You

1. The Scenery You See In Reflections Were Actually Lights - Knives Out

Reflections can be a director's worst nightmare.

So, to get around the unintentional sight of lighting equipment in the glasses of characters like Jamie Lee Curtis' Linda Drysdale in Rian Johnson's first magnificent Knives Out mystery, one of the film's grips had a marvellous idea.

As the cinematographer Steve Yedlin would eventually note on X, the scenes involving folks in glasses being interviewed by some police detectives actually boasted some genius art from key grip Matt Mania.

#KnivesOut subtly features art by Matt Mania, Key Grip. We had many closeups of characters with eyeglasses, so he cleverly sculpted mattes to reshape our lighting equipment into scenery you'd realistically expect to see reflected in the glasses.#NerdyFilmTechStuff pic.twitter.com/n3ZrGcEOIJ
— Steve Yedlin (@steveyedlin) December 7, 2019

In order to disguise the aforementioned lighting equipment being used for the conversation, Mania sculpted mattes to turn the equipment into what looked like scenery that fit the scene in question.

You may have thought you were just catching the odd reflection of some household objects also in the room Curtis and co. were shooting in, but you were actually secretly being tricked by some cleverly disguised lighting.