These 20 Candid Movie Photos Will Make You Watch Your Favorite Flicks In A Whole New Way
Why do we love movies? This American-born form of entertainment can take us to places we may never go, show us lives very different from own, or just provide us with two hours, give or take, of much-needed distraction from the stresses of everyday life. We love movies because they’re magic, and we all need a little illusion every now and then.
These fascinating photos, however, give us a peek behind the illusion. These are the photos that the dream weavers of Hollywood never wanted you to see. But never fear. These photos will shatter your illusions in the most entertaining possible way. This is Hollywood we’re talking about, after all.
Because as much as we enjoy the magic of movies, it helps every now and then to be reminded that those larger-than-life figures on the screen are just human beings after all. Even the computer-generated ones.
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Somehow, Kermit still seems real, even when we see him on the arm of his creator and original voice, the late, great Jim Henson on the set of The Muppet Movie (1979).
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Director Ang Lee’s 2012 film Life of Pi, about a boy lost as sea in a boat with a tiger, won four Oscars. But this is what the mostly computer-generated movie looked like on the set.
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The late Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his performance as The Joker in the 2008 Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. But the Gotham City you saw on screen was a little different from how it was filmed.
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It’s not easy being passengers on a sinking ship. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet needed to catch a breather on the 1997 set of Titanic.
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Careful with those scissors! Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were pals on screen and when the cameras weren’t rolling during the 1990 shoot of Edward Scissorhands.
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The 2014 remake of Godzilla used the latest computer-generated special effects. The 1954 Japanese original was much lower-tech.
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The 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski contained one of the weirdest and funniest dream sequences ever on film. In real life, actor Jeff Bridges needed director Joel Coen to explain a few things about the scene to him.
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Avengers, assemble! Wait, one of these characters in definitely not a superhero. (Hint: it’s Joss Whedon, director of the 2012 blockbuster Marvel’s The Avengers.)
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Gerard Butler must be a little chilly on the set of the 2007 Spartans vs. Persians action flick 300, as he consults director Zack Snyder.
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Even R2D2 needs a lunch break, on location shooting the 1977 original Star Wars.
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This guy appeared in hundreds of movies — every movie MGM Studios ever made, as a matter of fact.
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Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu kiss and make up after Uma sliced the top of Lucy’s head off filming the 2003 Quentin Tarantino martial arts flick Kill Bill.
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Talk about acting! Ellen Page and Leonardo DiCaprio had to imagine the entire world of Christopher Nolan’s 2010 sci-fi classic Inception.
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Just because he’s a monster doesn’t mean he should miss afternoon tea. That’s the great Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein between takes on the 1931 horror classic Frankenstein.
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Director James Cameron wasn’t afraid to get wet to get the shots he wanted, as he confers with DiCaprio and Winslet in the giant water tank where the climactic scenes of Titanic were filmed.
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Charlton Heston spent much of the 1959 Biblical epic Ben-Hur in the back of a racing chariot. But between shots, the back of a Vespa scooter would do just fine.
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Silence of the Lambs Director Jonathan Demme feeds a french fry to Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) between shots of the landmark 1991 horror film.
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The Munchkinland set for the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz really was pretty small.
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Those creepy twins from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick horror masterpiece The Shining weren’t nearly as creepy off screen. By the way, click here to see what Lisa and Louise Burns look like today.
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We’ll start and end with Mr. Hollywood himself, Steven Spielberg. Here he is in 1982 at age 35 giving E.T. a bath.
And the photo at the very top of this article is Spielberg at age 28 having fun with Bruce the Mechanical Shark while shooting the movie that made Spielberg famous way back in 1975 — Jaws.
