10 Movie Scenes Shot For Real

Mad Max: Fury Road is a fantastic example of a movie which uses a lot more CGI than audiences think it does, but deploys it in an extremely clever way to accentuate the practical action rather than distract from it.

One of the most memorable aspects of the movie is the guitar-clad, onesie-wearing character harnessed to one of Immortan Joe's (Hugh Keays-Byrne) vehicles, eventually identified as the Coma Doof Warrior.

The Coma Doof Warrior memorably wailed away on his flamethrower-shooting guitar and even had a brief tussle with Max (Tom Hardy) later in the film.

There's no shame in assuming that an actor wasn't really strapped to a vehicular rig for months on end and allowed to fire actual flames out of a guitar...but that's exactly what happened.

Australian musician iOTA played the character, which amounted to spending eight hours a day for months strapped into the vehicle as it drove speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, while playing a guitar which, due to the flamethrower rigging, weighed 130 pounds and was held up by bungee ropes.

iOTA was able to control the flames by using the guitar's whammy bar, and hilariously, the flamethrower was only added by the production team after director George Miller complained that it didn't work for real.

In the words of production designer Colin Gibson, "George - unfortunately - doesn’t like things that don’t work."

Though it would've surprised no-one if this role was keyed-in from a soundstage or the flames were added in post-production, it was all done in-camera as you see it, and is absolutely astonishing as a result.