When it comes to the big screen, the viewer, like you and me, gets to see only a tiny part of the carefully staged and very well-calculated world that happens behind the cameras.
We suspect there are hundreds of people if not more working behind the scenes, while we only get to see one or two actors in one shot. Turns out the magic happens way before the lights go off in movie theatres and it takes one hell of a joint effort to make the final result reach the audience.
Thanks to the “Far Out Cinema” Facebook page, which has collected some of the most intriguing, rarely seen and totally wild photos from behind the scenes, we can now get a real glimpse behind the lights, camera, action.
Scroll down to see the most interesting examples and don’t forget to upvote them as you go!
#1 In Lord Of The Rings, The Majority Of The Riders Of Rohan Were Women With Fake Beards. The Horses Used Were Owned By Those Women
#2 Dogma (1999) – The Late, Great Alan Rickman As Metatron
#3 A Terrific Foreground Miniature By Spanish Effects Maestro Emilio Ruiz Del Río For Conan The Destroyer (1984)
#4 Keanu Reeves And Denzel Washington From ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993)
#5 Johnny Depp And Winona Ryder On The Set Of Edward Scissorhands
#6 The Columbia Pictures Logo On The Day It Was Made
#7 Anthony Daniels Cooling Down On The Tunisia Set During The Filming Of A New Hope In 1976
#8 Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray And Ernie Hudson, The Original Ghostbusters, Outside The Firehouse (1984)
#9 Michael J. Fox On Set Of Back To The Future, Rehearsing Johnny B. Goode (1985)
#10 Chadwick Boseman And Ryan Coogler On The Set Of Black Panther
#11 Tim Curry’s Transformation Into It
#12 Bruce The Shark From ‘Jaws’ (1975)
#13 Patrick Stewart Was Initially Set To Wear A Wig In Star Trek
#14 Behind The Scenes Of Dr Strange With Benedict Cumberbatch
#15 Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, And Harrison Ford Going Over The Script For The Empire Strikes Back (1979)
#16 Behind The Scenes Of Avengers Infinity War With Stan Lee
#17 Aubrey Plaza Holding Grumpy Cat
#18 Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, And Sean Astin During The Making Of ‘Encino Man’ (1992)
#19 Shots Of Christian Bale’s Gorr Makeup Test For ‘Thor Love And Thunder’
#20 The Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park Weren’t Graphics. Most Of Them Are Actors In Costumes
#21 Alan Rickman Shooting His Final Scene As Hans Gruber In ‘Die Hard’ (1988)
#22 Jennifer Connelly And Ludo From ‘Labyrinth’ (1986)
#23 Before And After Vfx From Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
#24 Liv Tyler And Miranda Otto On The Set Of ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’
#25 Sissy Spacek While Filming ‘Carrie’ (1976)
