14 Minor Movie Moments That Took An Insane Amount Of Work
Filmmakers sometimes take the hard way out.
![14 Minor Movie Moments That Took An Insane Amount Of Work](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/5/6/746356_320x180.jpg?v=1)
Filmmakers only have so much time and money available, and, most of the time, they try to ration them carefully. Occasionally, though, they go wild and put a ton of effort into details that maybe 0.001% of the audience will notice.
For example:
![In some shots, the spider that bites Peter in Spider-Man is a black widow painted blue and red. They put a cover on the spider, and painted the cover,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/4/746374.jpg?v=2)
![The Django Unchained audio team recorded new gunshot and whipcrack sounds. MINNE ESOTA CI Alno They went to Death Valley, Zion National Park, and Monu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/2/746372.jpg?v=2)
![Stanley Kubrick had his secretary type All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy for months. boy. ALl work Jnck dull All work and no play askes dul](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/1/746371.jpg?v=2)
![The opening of Children of Men shows London in 2027, with the Shard (London's tallest building) visible for a few seconds. London, 16th November 2027](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/0/746370.jpg?v=2)
![For Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they had to build an elaborate machine for pretty much every scene. The dish-breaking machine in action For example, for](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/7/746367.jpg?v=2)
![Blade Runner's parking meters, which you can barely see, are super elaborate. PeKINIG PENALTIES There's a card register, a lighting system for directi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/6/746366.jpg?v=2)
![For the on-screen runes in Frozen (in the magic book, and on monuments), Disney hired a linguistics professor, Jackson Crawford, to write actual text](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/8/746368.jpg?v=2)
![Every prop and set in Signs was either built or grown for the movie. It took weeks to make real crop circles Cincluding the ones that show up for a fe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/4/746364.jpg?v=2)
![No actors were inserted into the Avengers: Endgame funeral scene after it was filmed. Everybody is really there. The Russo brothers (who directed the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/5/746365.jpg?v=2)
![For the opening shot in Knives Out, they had to build a ramp for the dogs to run up. Otherwise, the dogs would just slide under the camera.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/3/746363.jpg?v=2)
![The blossoms in Coraline are actually 250,000 pieces of painted popcorn. The crew spent 800 hours painting them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/9/746369.jpg?v=2)
![In Scott Pilgrim VS. the World, the scene where Michael Cera tosses the package over his shoulder took 33 takes to get right. 33 Apparently, they didn](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/2/746362.jpg?v=2)
![In Lord of War, the row of T-72 tanks isn't CGI. Those are 50 actual T-72 tanks, loaned to the production by a Czech arms dealer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/1/746361.jpg?v=2)
![Shell Cottage is briefly seen in the background in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. AR But its roof, which you can barely make out, has 4,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/0/746360.jpg?v=2)