10 Movie Scenes That Totally Tricked Your Brain

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the most technically astonishing movies of all time, its ground-breaking hybrid of live-action filmmaking and 2D animation winning it both the Best Visual Effects Oscar and a Special Achievement Academy Award.

While we as audience members of course know that Roger Rabbit and the other toons aren't in any way real, director Robert Zemeckis ingeniously tricks our minds into fully accepting the illusion through an innovative technique called "bumping the lamp."

In this context, bumping the lamp is the act of manipulating the physical environment of a scene in order to sell the presence of the cartoon character, who is of course added during post-production.

Zemeckis and his crew went to exhaustive lengths to execute the results of the toons' physical movements in-camera, using elaborate rigging to have every non-animated element be part of the live-action shoot.

The term bumping the lamp was coined from the scene in which Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) bumps his head on a lamp, causing light to shine all around the room while Eddie interacts with Roger.

Because the ever-shifting lighting is also applied to Roger himself, audience members subconsciously believe that Roger is "real," rather than being distracted by him not blending in correctly with the environment.

Between this and the tireless efforts to carry out his actions in-camera - such as having the weight of boxes shift when he sits on them - it's truly next-level filmmaking that absolutely should've earned Zemeckis a Best Director Oscar nomination.