10 Movie Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You
5. That's Not A Real Highway - Sicario
In another example of CGI being used to subtly enhance a scene under your very nose, Denis Villeneuve's powder keg of a feature by the name of Sicario brilliantly tricked all who locked into the FBI action thriller when it came time for the film's notable border sequence.
While you'd be forgiven for assuming that every vehicle you see on the road in this moment which sees Emily Blunt's Special Agent Macer stuck in the middle of an intensely perilous situation on a highway was very much there, blue screen and CGI was actually used to add more vehicles and visual layers to the real-life cars that were situated nearby to create the visual of a long-spanning line of traffic.
Digital effects were also used to add in portions of the sky and the far off scenery that helped realise this dusty and gritty Arizona locale on the big screen. But with Villeneuve and his team masterfully infusing the real-life set, filled with beaten down vehicles and questionable characters, with barely even noticeable CGI-tinkering, one of the gripping flick's finest beats felt about as legit and authentic as anything we'd seen before it.