10 Ways Movies Blew Your Mind Without You Even Realising
Filmmaking ingenuity at its finest.
The sheer amount of blood, sweat, and tears that go into making even a terrible movie is unmistakable.
From getting the script written, to having the actors perform it, lighting the set appropriately, cutting it all together, and ensuring the sound is mixed correctly, it's a multi-disciplinary art-form where even the most basic film is comprised of thousands of smaller creative decisions and details.
And often filmmakers are ingenious enough that their crew's work is on full display even while audiences are absolutely unable to fathom the true graft that went into achieving it.
These 10 films all pulled off mind-boggling feats in ways that were totally inconceivable to audiences at the time, and still today in most cases.
Every single one of these scenes boasts a conceptual flourish, be it a subtle work of practical effects or an ingenious piece of subliminal sound design, which audiences took thoroughly for granted.
Viewers likely assumed in each case that the filmmakers took the easy way out, or in the very least totally underestimated the insane work that went into making these moments of movie magic truly come alive.
And so, we tip our hat to the ludicrously talented crafts-folk across all cinematic disciplines whose hard work allowed these scenes to land as brilliantly as they did...