10 Movie Scenes More Real Than You Think
Famous film scenes that were way more realistic than you ever realised.
Though Hollywood is a dream factory where the impossible can become possible courtesy of cutting edge visual effects, sometimes filmmakers just get things done the old-fashioned way - that is, doing them for real.
Whether for the sake of time, budgets, or simply because those involved wanted the most naturalistic reaction from their cast members possible, these 10 movie scenes are all far more rooted in reality than you'd ever reasonably expect.
From watching them as part of the wider movie, you'd assume each of these scenes was a carefully controlled cinematic fabrication where everyone had been carefully briefed and felt totally comfortable.
Instead, these scenes were genuinely dangerous, frightening, disgusting, awkward, and in one case, even uncomfortably truthful.
It's fair to say that filmmakers wouldn't get away with many of these unexpectedly real movie moments today, though some are at least nothing more than harmless fun where nobody's physical well-being was at risk.
Prepare to have your totally sensible preconceptions about these scenes rubbished, then, as we detail just how much reality was involved in bringing them to the big screen...
10. Dodgeball - Billy Madison
Adam Sandler's much-loved comedy Billy Madison features a memorable scene where Billy (Sandler) takes on his pint-sized classmates in an impromptu game of dodgeball, using his superior size and strength to effortlessly wail away on the kids.
It's one of the movie's most hilarious scenes, and according to director Tamra Davis, Sandler called her up the night before shooting, insisting that he actually hit the kids with the ball as hard as he can because, in his apparent words, "hurting kids is funny."
Despite Davis' initial protests, she agreed on the condition that the kids must volunteer to be hit and the production must get the sign-off from their parents.
Nevertheless, in a recent interview Sandler confirmed that some of the parents weren't too thrilled about their kids getting hit full-pelt by him. Many of the kids began crying, though Davis was able to call "cut!" before the waterworks flowed.