and you thought your job was hard
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten how they shoot that scene before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
movies that defied belief through the
use of clever shooting top-notch effects
and some brave souls that put themselves
in harm’s way for the good of cinema if
you don’t see a sequence you thought
should be on the list be sure to check
out our first video of the top ten how
they shoot that scene number 10 the
construction site chase casino royale’
[Music]
now this is how you reboot a franchise
after the film shockingly violent
opening audiences were treated to this
seemingly endless action sequence where
bond chases a bomb maker across a
construction site with all the fun and
danger that presents driving heavy
equipment breaking through unfinished
walls and dropping on hydraulic lifts
are only part of the fun with star
Daniel Craig performing many stunts
himself and let’s not forget the massive
crane jump alongside parkour forefather
sebastian fukan with an explosive ending
filled with bullets and horns going off
in every direction the bond crew wanted
viewers to know they meant business with
this installment number 9 the opening
crawl Star Wars Episode four a new hope
if you’re going to make an audience read
you need to do it cinematically George
Lucas paid homage to the opening of his
favorite Flash Gordon films with the
iconic opening crawl to Star Wars the
scrolling text falling into a void added
an epic quality to the story that
allowed for all the exposition without
losing any visual majesty while the
effect is accomplished now thanks to
software that’s even permeated
re-releases of the originals the effect
was originally accomplished
thanks to giant print plates and
cleverly designed camera rigs that
scrolled along the text
number eight the centrifuge 2001 a Space
Odyssey
if you want to bring your viewers to the
Future your production needs to be out
of this world
when Stanley Kubrick wanted to simulate
zero gravity in space on his ships giant
centrifuge
he built a mechanical one himself while
it looks absolutely baffling to see the
crew running around the giant circle and
continuous shots the massive set was
essentially a ferris wheel that had to
be rotated along with the actors to
accomplish the seamless shots by
carefully coordinating the actors and
crew members and even occasionally
strapping in actors upside down to make
it all look real Kubrick proved just how
much you can accomplish with ingenuity
and a dash of crazy number seven raining
frogs magnolias what are you doing for a
biblical scene your attention to detail
should be just immaculate after the
emotional slow burn that fills the
majority of Paul Thomas Anderson’s
surreal film the climactic ending goes
above and beyond anything you’d expect
from a standard drama after sprinkling
in references to the exodus passage that
mentions the frogs throughout the film
Andersen brings the plague to life for a
visceral and impactful ending to his
film
thanks to some clever effects work he
mixes some practical frogs with
countless CG frogs to rain down on the
landscape shocking the audience as much
as it shocks the characters on screen
number six empty New York City streets
Vanilla Sky well I suppose the empty
Street men loneliness if you’ve ever
felt alone in the world this scene might
hit pretty close to home in one of the
many confusing sequences from Vanilla
Sky Tom Cruise goes for a drive only to
realize that the usually busy New York
streets are unbelievably empty at 9:00
a.m.
his unreal Drive leads into Times Square
where he realizes something’s wrong and
begins to freak out as he seemingly
stuck in a Twilight Zone episode like
the one playing behind him most
surprising however is that the scene
isn’t computer enhanced director Cameron
Crowe was given permission to shut down
Times Square for filming on a Sunday
morning to create the spooky emptiness
number five the bloody elevators The
Shining no situate tools while bigger
doesn’t always mean better when it comes
to blood in horror films the more the
merrier
for this haunting scene and Stanley
Kubrick’s take on the ghastly story from
horror master Stephen King a couple of
litres simply wouldn’t do for the
extremely red river that both Danny and
Wendy Torrance encounter in the Overlook
Hotel elevator
Kubrick once again refused to cut
corners to make it happen employing over
200 gallons of the fake blood known as
Kensington gore the blood eerily flows
out splashing against the wall and
ominously obscuring the screen and it’s
terrifying journey towards the camera
number four the bear fight the revenant
[Music]
how do you top falling off a cliff call
in the bear for Alejandro and yari to
survival masterpiece he needed to make
hue glasses physical pain feel as real
as his emotional pain and the bear
attack in the film’s first act was all
but overkill as Leonardo DiCaprio walks
through the forest he encounters a
mother bear that proceeds to maul him
and horribly damaged his body to make it
look believable neither a real bear nor
pure CGI would work so the crew used a
blue costume stuntman to throw DiCaprio
around while cleverly applied and edited
injuries were added along the way for a
scene you’ll feel in your bones number
three another day of son lala land
the bus here I came could be a great
rejecting train the loudest way is often
the best way to get a message across
especially in a musical in the opener to
Damien Chazelle love letter to classic
musicals the cast sings and dances
another day of Sun around an LA Highway
shedding all the frustration that the
city’s awful traffic usually brings one
woman gets out of her car to sing and
the rest of the drivers soon follow
dancing on top of their cars and closing
the number on a hilarious mix of door
slams and honks la is actually
cooperative when it comes to making
films including the ability to take a
rap of a freeway in downtown Los Angeles
and shut it down
the glorious six-minute long shot was
filmed by ironically shutting off part
of an LA freeway for two days likely
causing even more traffic in the process
[Music]
number two
bad trip children of men hey
most films can barely manage one breath
taking long take but Alfonso Cuaron seem
to have more trouble avoiding them as
the gang of Runaways drive down a
country road things appear hopeful
despite the dark future they live in
blood as Raiders descend on the car with
weapons things go from happy to
disturbing in seconds with an armed
motorcycle attacker gunning one of them
down during the same extended take on
top of the precise amount of
coordination that was used to get each
of the countless actors in the right
place at the right time a massive rig
was also built on the car to catch each
moment from the inside
before we get to our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
[Music]
look at him that’s my brother god damn
it
[Music]
oh yeah okay
Bengie open that door right now yeah I’m
trying
[Music]
number one the whole movie Mad Max fury
road
creating an awe-inspiring scene is one
thing but this film left audiences with
jaws open from start to finish
the exploding vehicles pole swinging and
harpooning I’ll bring enough danger on
their own so it’s hard to imagine that
they were done practically director
george miller and stunt coordinator guy
Norris had trained motorcyclists to
simultaneously drop bombs on furiosa’s
tanker mid jumps along with stuntmen
swinging on giant pivoting poles on
moving vehicles with some help from a
Cirque de Soleil member construction
vehicles were really blasted off a
tanker and most of the crashes really
happened and yes the doof warriors
guitar actually works
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten how they shoot that scene before we
begin we publish new videos every day so
be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
movies that defied belief through the
use of clever shooting top-notch effects
and some brave souls that put themselves
in harm’s way for the good of cinema if
you don’t see a sequence you thought
should be on the list be sure to check
out our first video of the top ten how
they shoot that scene number 10 the
construction site chase casino royale’
[Music]
now this is how you reboot a franchise
after the film shockingly violent
opening audiences were treated to this
seemingly endless action sequence where
bond chases a bomb maker across a
construction site with all the fun and
danger that presents driving heavy
equipment breaking through unfinished
walls and dropping on hydraulic lifts
are only part of the fun with star
Daniel Craig performing many stunts
himself and let’s not forget the massive
crane jump alongside parkour forefather
sebastian fukan with an explosive ending
filled with bullets and horns going off
in every direction the bond crew wanted
viewers to know they meant business with
this installment number 9 the opening
crawl Star Wars Episode four a new hope
if you’re going to make an audience read
you need to do it cinematically George
Lucas paid homage to the opening of his
favorite Flash Gordon films with the
iconic opening crawl to Star Wars the
scrolling text falling into a void added
an epic quality to the story that
allowed for all the exposition without
losing any visual majesty while the
effect is accomplished now thanks to
software that’s even permeated
re-releases of the originals the effect
was originally accomplished
thanks to giant print plates and
cleverly designed camera rigs that
scrolled along the text
number eight the centrifuge 2001 a Space
Odyssey
if you want to bring your viewers to the
Future your production needs to be out
of this world
when Stanley Kubrick wanted to simulate
zero gravity in space on his ships giant
centrifuge
he built a mechanical one himself while
it looks absolutely baffling to see the
crew running around the giant circle and
continuous shots the massive set was
essentially a ferris wheel that had to
be rotated along with the actors to
accomplish the seamless shots by
carefully coordinating the actors and
crew members and even occasionally
strapping in actors upside down to make
it all look real Kubrick proved just how
much you can accomplish with ingenuity
and a dash of crazy number seven raining
frogs magnolias what are you doing for a
biblical scene your attention to detail
should be just immaculate after the
emotional slow burn that fills the
majority of Paul Thomas Anderson’s
surreal film the climactic ending goes
above and beyond anything you’d expect
from a standard drama after sprinkling
in references to the exodus passage that
mentions the frogs throughout the film
Andersen brings the plague to life for a
visceral and impactful ending to his
film
thanks to some clever effects work he
mixes some practical frogs with
countless CG frogs to rain down on the
landscape shocking the audience as much
as it shocks the characters on screen
number six empty New York City streets
Vanilla Sky well I suppose the empty
Street men loneliness if you’ve ever
felt alone in the world this scene might
hit pretty close to home in one of the
many confusing sequences from Vanilla
Sky Tom Cruise goes for a drive only to
realize that the usually busy New York
streets are unbelievably empty at 9:00
a.m.
his unreal Drive leads into Times Square
where he realizes something’s wrong and
begins to freak out as he seemingly
stuck in a Twilight Zone episode like
the one playing behind him most
surprising however is that the scene
isn’t computer enhanced director Cameron
Crowe was given permission to shut down
Times Square for filming on a Sunday
morning to create the spooky emptiness
number five the bloody elevators The
Shining no situate tools while bigger
doesn’t always mean better when it comes
to blood in horror films the more the
merrier
for this haunting scene and Stanley
Kubrick’s take on the ghastly story from
horror master Stephen King a couple of
litres simply wouldn’t do for the
extremely red river that both Danny and
Wendy Torrance encounter in the Overlook
Hotel elevator
Kubrick once again refused to cut
corners to make it happen employing over
200 gallons of the fake blood known as
Kensington gore the blood eerily flows
out splashing against the wall and
ominously obscuring the screen and it’s
terrifying journey towards the camera
number four the bear fight the revenant
[Music]
how do you top falling off a cliff call
in the bear for Alejandro and yari to
survival masterpiece he needed to make
hue glasses physical pain feel as real
as his emotional pain and the bear
attack in the film’s first act was all
but overkill as Leonardo DiCaprio walks
through the forest he encounters a
mother bear that proceeds to maul him
and horribly damaged his body to make it
look believable neither a real bear nor
pure CGI would work so the crew used a
blue costume stuntman to throw DiCaprio
around while cleverly applied and edited
injuries were added along the way for a
scene you’ll feel in your bones number
three another day of son lala land
the bus here I came could be a great
rejecting train the loudest way is often
the best way to get a message across
especially in a musical in the opener to
Damien Chazelle love letter to classic
musicals the cast sings and dances
another day of Sun around an LA Highway
shedding all the frustration that the
city’s awful traffic usually brings one
woman gets out of her car to sing and
the rest of the drivers soon follow
dancing on top of their cars and closing
the number on a hilarious mix of door
slams and honks la is actually
cooperative when it comes to making
films including the ability to take a
rap of a freeway in downtown Los Angeles
and shut it down
the glorious six-minute long shot was
filmed by ironically shutting off part
of an LA freeway for two days likely
causing even more traffic in the process
[Music]
number two
bad trip children of men hey
most films can barely manage one breath
taking long take but Alfonso Cuaron seem
to have more trouble avoiding them as
the gang of Runaways drive down a
country road things appear hopeful
despite the dark future they live in
blood as Raiders descend on the car with
weapons things go from happy to
disturbing in seconds with an armed
motorcycle attacker gunning one of them
down during the same extended take on
top of the precise amount of
coordination that was used to get each
of the countless actors in the right
place at the right time a massive rig
was also built on the car to catch each
moment from the inside
before we get to our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
[Music]
look at him that’s my brother god damn
it
[Music]
oh yeah okay
Bengie open that door right now yeah I’m
trying
[Music]
number one the whole movie Mad Max fury
road
creating an awe-inspiring scene is one
thing but this film left audiences with
jaws open from start to finish
the exploding vehicles pole swinging and
harpooning I’ll bring enough danger on
their own so it’s hard to imagine that
they were done practically director
george miller and stunt coordinator guy
Norris had trained motorcyclists to
simultaneously drop bombs on furiosa’s
tanker mid jumps along with stuntmen
swinging on giant pivoting poles on
moving vehicles with some help from a
Cirque de Soleil member construction
vehicles were really blasted off a
tanker and most of the crashes really
happened and yes the doof warriors
guitar actually works
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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