15 Iconic Movie Shots We Didn’t Know Were Super Tricky To Pull Off
![15 Iconic Movie Shots We Didn’t Know Were Super Tricky To Pull Off](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/789523_320x180.jpg)
It's the job of movies to make scenery and interactions look as natural as possible. “Suspension of disbelief,” that's a term we heard somewhere. Can't remember where, though, can you believe it? Anyway, it often doesn't look like it on screen, but pulling off a great shot involves a lot of hard work. There's lighting, cameras, makeup, whatever the hell a “key grip” or a “best boy” is (sounds made-up to us, but whatever, support good union jobs). All this in service of these play pretend little fictions we use to either entertain ourselves with or as fodder for passing out on the couch. Both are equally valid! But the people behind the scenes put in real, actual work. They could have just drawn the 2D comic-book elements in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but they didn’t -- they laboriously created them as elements of a 3D world. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:
![The hardest VFX shot in The Force Awakens was the TIE Fighter in the sand. They had to build a full-size wrecked TIE fighter in the desert and light it on fire (after which CGI takes over) to make it feel totally real. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/789538.jpg)
Source: CinemaBlend
![Deep Impact's scene of the water flooding NYC was a huge challenge to film. It was super early days for water CGI so, even though it's just one shot, it was a really hard (director Mimi Leder says it was hardest ever VFX shot). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/789535.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The Handmaid's Tale Lincoln Memorial scene was shot in 5-minute bursts. The Memorial was open to the public that day (the only day they could shoot on), so they had to work around the crowds of tourists swarming the Memorial. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/789536.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![One of the big problems for Bridgerton's sex scenes was an actor's height. Re%e-Jean page was too tall for Regency-era beds so they had to choreograph his sex scenes very carefully to keep him from falling off. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/789537.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The big boulder prop in the meth lab in Better Call Saul was pretty hard to make. Apparently, making a realistic boulder isn't easy it took a lot of finesse, which was hard to pull off on an extremely packed TV schedule. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/789534.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![The phone call in the Mad Men finale was surprisingly hard to pull off. Show creator Matthew Weiner says that having Peggy's voice come through the other side electronically was actually complicated to do. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/789532.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![For the continuous take in Birdman, matching the lighting was super hard. That required such careful work (and was harder than, say, choreography), there were eight people moving lights every time the camera moved. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/789533.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![For Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, they made the comic world in 3D. Which meant that, say, the comic book-style Ben-Day dots weren't drawn by hand, but were created by a light source, and filled an actual volume in space. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/789531.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Game of Thrones' final Season 4 shot was SO expensive, it almost didn't make it in. It's the one of Arya sailing away in a big ship the studio hated spending SO much, but came around when they realized how important the shot was. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/789529.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![One of John Wick 3's biggest challenges was filming rain in New York City. It was summer, so there wasn't a lot of rain, but director Chad Stahelski wanted it to rain all the time in NYC. Somehow, they pulled it off. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/789530.jpg)
Source: Collider
![Arrival's highly imperfect look required switching camera lenses all the time. They sometimes switched lenses in the same scene. Different lens manufacturers have their own particular personality, said the cinematographer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/789528.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![One of the biggest challenges in The Hateful Eight were the outdoor sets. Making them look relatively undamaged, as they would have been in the 19th century, contributed to making the shoot go $10 million over budget. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/789526.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![They had to use LED walls to make a key Ozark scene (that takes place in a car). Tom Pelphrey's minutes-long monologue in Season 3, Episode 9 would have been impossible to pull off in live traffic, so they put up LED walls instead of filming in a car. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/789527.jpg)
Source: Collider
![For Midsommar, the cinematographer had to literally spend days in the field alone. The movie takes place in the daylight, and he had to figure out how the light changed depending on the time of day and the area they'd shoot in. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/789525.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![King Shark's skin in The Suicide Squad was super hard to do with CGI. It was harder than either Rocket Raccoon's fur or Groot's wooden body to be able to do the sharkskin was really tough, said James Gunn. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/789524.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant