23 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Small Stuff

Directors put a lot of hard work into their movies. And a small percentage of those people put more hard work into their films than any sane human being should. And all for tiny details you didn't even notice, you jerk. We asked our readers to provide some of the craziest details overlooked by the movie-going public. Winner got $100 ...

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Model maker Michael Lynch created this miniature set for Star Wars Episode I. To fill the stands, 450.000 Q-Tips were cut, painted, and inserted into

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In 1975, Kubrick wanted to film Barry Lyndon in such a way as to capture the look and feel of perlod paintings, and steer away from the artificial fee

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Gone With The Wind (1939) CRACKEDCO For the buming of Atlanta, MGM bumned old sets for King Kong and other films. It was intense that Culver so City r

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CRACKED.COM In scenes where human characters interact with King Kong, footage of the actors had to be projected frame by frame onto miniature screens

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Eric Schwab. second unit director for 1990's The Bonfire of the Vanities, spent months studying the rotation of the earth and the flight path of the C

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When Alfred Hichcock filmed Rear Window in 1954 it was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios. The apartment- courtyard set measured 98 fee

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CRACKEDCO IN CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 40 REAL SQUIRRELS WERE USED. THEY WERE TRAINED FOR 19 WEEKS IN THE FINE ART OF NUT SORTING.

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Metropolis (1927) is the story of a dystopian world, set in 2026. The set was built in miniature and the actors reflected into the city with mirrors.

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Russian Ark carries it's audience on a journey spanning 300 years through the Winter Palace at the Hermitage in one uninterrupted 90-minute shot. Prec

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CRACKED COM 55 DAYS AT. PEKING (1963) i7233 THE PRODUCTION COMPANY-CONSTRUCTED. A 60 ACRE FULLESIZED REPLICA OF PEKING (BE JING), CHINA AS IT WAS IN 1

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Not an effect. In this scene of The MOPPET MOVOF, no camera tricks were used. A giant Animal head was made by Muppeteers. CRACKED COM

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The special effects team for The Matrix performed over 200 test shots with nearly 150 different combinations of chemicals to get the flames to 'flow'

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CRAGKEDCO COM The Untouchables-1987 Robert De Niro tracked down Al Capone's original tailors and had them make him some identical clothing for the mov

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D.W. Griffith's Intolerance CRACKEDOON The life-size set of the Great Wall of Babylon became a notable Hollywood landmark as Griffith had run out of

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CRACKEDo In 2004 people saw these photos of the F/A-37 and thought it was some new fighter jet. Turned out they were just production shots of a movie

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SULLY FROM MONSTERS INC. HAS 2,320,413 INDIVIDUALLY ANIMATED HAIRS. EACH FRAME FEATURING THE CHARACTER TOOK 11 TO 12 HOURS TO RENDER5 CRACKED

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Fitzcarraldo, the 1982 film by Werner Herzog, is a movie about an opera-loving madman who was determined to drag a boat overland from one river syst

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Peter Jackson had the entire town of Hobbiton built on a farm in Hinuera New Zealand a year before filming The Lord of the Rings in order to make it l

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For this scene in Hero, director Zhang Yimou wanted the surface of the lake to be perfectly still. It occured only 2 hours a day... The 3 minute scene

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THE SAME ACTOR. LAWRENCE MAKOARE, PLAYED ALL OF THESE PARTS. HIS AVERAGE MAKEUP TIME AT THE START OF EACH DAY WAS AROUND 5 HOURS

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The actors on Apollo 13 flew in NASA's KC-135 Vomit Comet to experience what weightlessness was like sO they could duplicate it in the film. After t