10 Movie Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You
6. Michael Clark Duncan Isn't Actually That Tall - The Green Mile
A few years before Peter Jackson was making Wizards towering over Hobbits cool in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frank Darabont utilised a form of that very same movie magic when it came time to introduce the world to Michael Clarke Duncan's loveable giant John Coffey.
On top of making sure Duncan's prison bed was shorter than the others as a way of selling just how much of a man-mountain Coffey was in comparison to the rest of the folks on screen, a ton of creative angles were incorporated into the shoot in order to make the already hulking actor seem even bigger than he was in reality.
In actual fact, Duncan was only a few inches taller than co-star David Morse and was actually shorter than James Cromwell. But you wouldn't have been wise to this reality taken solely on the information presented to you in Darabont's 1999 classic as his team creatively tricked audiences into assuming they were simply ingesting the sight of a wrongly accused giant of big screen cinema.