Thread by @tradingMaxiSL

Ever wonder what it takes to bring a fantasy world to life?.. This thread will show you how movies pull off their epic feats

1. The first Star Wars trilogy used so detailed paintings as backgrounds in the movies that they tricked everybody

2. Tom Cruise seen hanging off the side of a plane while filming his latest scenes for 'Mission Impossible 8'

3. Filming of movie '1917'. Director Sam Mendes told the actors that if they made a mistake to keep going so it was more natural

4. Before and After VFX in Avengers: Infinty War

5. This is the original Ghostbusters movie set in 1984

6. Asylum set in the movie Shutter Island

7. Action scenes in vintage movies were dangerous and scary

8. Wilhelm Dafoe surprises Alfred Molina on the set of Spider-Man 2 (2002)

9. The Fifth Element (1997) - A selection of images showing the amazing miniature work behind the New York cityscape of the movie

10. How they filmed the train scene in "Back To The Future 3"

11. Tom Cruise breaking his ankle during stunt for Mission Impossible

12. A behind the scenes photo from The Lord of the Rings the two Towers

13. The director of photography ( on the matrix) hid him self using a coat with a tie matching the one Morpheus was wearing, trying to blend in as much as possible.

14. For the movie Inception (2008), Nolan’s crew built a set from scratch that could portray the geospatial effects of the dream world.

15. Henry Cavill as Superman rehearsing scenes for Justice League

16. Gary Oldman's transformation for the 2001 movie, " Hannibal"

17. In Tenet, Kenneth Branagh spoke his lines in reverse, rather than having Christopher Nolan reverse his lines in editing.

18. Stanley Kubrick lining up the iconic 'freezer door' shot in 'The Shining' (1980)

19. In La La Land (2016), a single camera recorded the scene with Emma Stone dancing and Ryan Gosling playing the piano

20. Exterior of the sewer set in the movie 'IT'

21. A practical facehugger on the set of the new Alien movie

22. Lighting a freeway for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

23. War and Peace, Part IV (1967) - Filming the fire of Moscow

24. Michael Jordan filming Space Jam

25. Star Wars Episode I:The Phantom Menace. Model maker Michael Lynch created a mock crowd by cutting and painting 450,000 cotton swabs. To simulate cheering, filmmakers placed fans beneath the setup

26. Behind the scenes footage of the filming process of The Titanic, 1997

27. In Baby Driver (2017) While actors were busy performing, the real driver was on top of the car.

28. Behind the scenes from the new 'Bad Boys' film

29. The power of a green screen

30. A terrific foreground miniature by Spanish effects maestro Emilio Ruiz del Río for Conan the Destroyer (1984).

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