10 Movie Moments That Look Like CGI But Aren't

2. The Flame Throwing Guitar - Mad Max: Fury Road

2015's Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the biggest and most badass Hollywood action films ever produced. The fourth main entry into the franchise and starring the likes of Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy, Fury Road keeps with the Mad Max traditions of post-apocalyptic worlds, huge 'in your face' showpieces and plenty of grungy mopeds, bikes and weaponry.

Luckily for fans of the action genre as well, director George Miller quickly decided that he was going to stick with the Mad Max formula of impressive practical effects for all of these things, rather than computer generated imagery.

However that memo might not have reached certain members of the film's audience, when they were greeted with the sight of a grease-head on top of moving van playing an electric guitar that suddenly began doubling up as a flamethrower.

It's one of the best examples of just how insane the film can be with its characters and themes but, more impressively, this quick moment was done exclusively using the practical skills of the people in front of and behind the camera.

Not only was the guitar an actual prop that the crew built for the film, but it was actually able to double up as both a functioning flamethrower and a working musical instrument. The actor playing it in the film, iOTA, had six weeks to get used to the instrument and all of its 'perks', and had to shoot the sequence without being able to see and whilst being lobbed around on bungee strings.

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