13 Movie Scenes That Took Bonkers Amounts Of Prep
![13 Movie Scenes That Took Bonkers Amounts Of Prep](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/828688_320x180.jpg)
People often think that movie scenes are easy to make because they look so effortless on screen. However, the making of a single scene often requires a lot of hard work and coordination. First, the director must decide what action is taking place and how it will be filmed. Then, the actors must learn their lines and blocking, which is the choreography of their movements on set. After that, the set must be prepared, and the crew must be ready to film. Once everything is in place, the cameras can finally roll, and the scene can be captured. As you can see, there is a lot that goes into making even a simple movie scene. So next time you watch a film, remember all of the hard work that went into making it.
Sometimes, beloved scenes turn out to have been possible only because people were willing to invest weeks or months into prepping for them. Here are 13 times when just that happened:
Mulan
![Yoson An went through some pretty hardcore training for Mulan. We trained for four months prior to production, eight hours a day for five days a week. Our trainer, Bojan Mladenovic, had a military background, so it did feel like a boot camp, he says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/828692.jpg)
King Richard
![Demi Singleton trained tennis for months so she could play Serena Williams. It was an hour-and-a-half to two hours-sometimes three-of tennis every day, Monday through Friday, for a few months. We'd have the weekends off, which is when I would relax and whine about how sore I was, she says about her prep for King Richard.om](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/3/828693.jpg)
The Good Place
![The mid-season finale of The Good Place S3 took months of prep. For the bit where all of the main characters look like Janet, rehearsals started earlier than normal, and they also got filmed for Janet actress D'Arcy Carden to watch - so she could convincingly act like her co-stars. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/8/828698.jpg)
John Wick 3
![Keanu Reeves spent five months (or more) training for John Wick 3. I went into the training at least five months before. The physicality, the martial arts, and then the weapon work. All the time that I've put in, I'm just better at it, he says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/828691.jpg)
The Princess Bride
![Cary Elwes trained for four months for his final sword duel in The Princess Bride. And Mandy Patinkin had spent six months training. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/0/828700.jpg)
The Eternals
![Kumail Nanjiani prepared for months for a dance scene in The Eternals. I took months of Bollywood dance classes to prepare for that. It's really a workout... and you know, there's like 52 dancers, and 51 of them are professional dancers, and then there's me! he said. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/5/828695.jpg)
Home Alone
![It took weeks to find the right house for Home Alone's exterior shots. Well, we knew we were going to shoot in the North Shore, so we were in the Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, Lake Forest area, so we basically drove around for several weeks until we found the right house, says director Chris Columbus.com](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/9/828699.jpg)
Elf
![Making Buddy's paper creations in the department store scene in Elf took weeks. Basically the set decoration department started right away making stuff homemade ... . cutting out little dolls, cutting out little curlicues to make snowflakes. It took weeks and weeks for that alone, says production designer Rusty Smith.OM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/828689.jpg)
Wonder Woman
![One early scene in Wonder Woman required months of preparation. It's the one where the Amazons fight German soldiers - it also took two weeks to shoot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/7/828697.jpg)
Mission: Impossible 7
![Apparetly, one Mission: Impossible 7 stunt took weeks of preparation. POLICE NIOS It involved a stuntman on a motorcycle jumping off a high ramp, and it's not just one of the most expensive action sequences that have been shot in England, it also took six weeks of preparation beforehand. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/4/828694.jpg)
Oldboy
![One scene in 2013's Oldboy movie took five weeks of preparation. It was the hammer fight scene, and Josh Brolin said this: That was five weeks of prep and it was difficult, to say the least. It was difficult for me, and I'm an active guy, but I'm not that active. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/6/828696.jpg)
Spencer
![Kristen Stewart's wigs in Spencer took weeks and weeks to make. This process took about six weeks, and I probably colored the wig three times before I met Kristen, says hair and makeup designer Wakana Yoshihara. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/1/828701.jpg)
GoT
![Preparing Joffrey's wedding feast on GoT took ten weeks. The effort involved making 50 giant display pieces that combined, say, some taxidermy with some cheese and berries. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/828690.jpg)