10. Real-Life Stunts Made The Action Scenes Feel Real
Everything is fake in Hollywood, from smiles to tans, and that only gets worse as technology gets better. Nowadays, it's far more cost-effective and risk-free to avoid the use of practical effects and dangerous stunts in favour of just generating such scenes within a computer, with the actors needing only to have their faces grafted onto a CGI model after. Unless you're working with real top-of-the-line gear, however, and shooting a particular way, the human brain can still tell the difference between real and computer-generated images, whether it's Escape From LA or Avatar. Not that there's a lack of computer graphics in Mad Max: Fury Road, just that they kept them to a minimum. As the B-roll behind the scenes footage shows, a lot of the car chase that makes up the bulk of the film used a real fleet of bizarre, beaten-up vehicles racing through an actual desert. Real explosions were used, people really got tossed off roofs, and even those War Boys on the see-saws were done for real.
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