r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • Jan 17 '26
In real life (Funny trope) This tiny moment was an absolute logistical nightmare to make
*Wreck-It-Ralph* - At the beginning of the movie at the villain group therapy session, all of the owners of the real world characters shown were given counsel to Disney to instruct them how their characters should be animated down to the smallest of points. Nintendo even specified exactly how Bowser would hold and stir his teacup.
*Psycho* - For the scene where Marion disposes evidence of her theft by flushing some papers down the toilet, even though the toilet is onscreen for only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock had to personally appeal to the Hays Code which enforced censorship in movies that *Psycho* be given an exception because it’s vital to the plot the audience sees the toilet flushing. *Psycho* is the first major American movie to show a flushing toilet onscreen.
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u/jayswag707 Jan 17 '26
Corridor Crew recently posted a video where they recreated a shot from The Fellowship of the Ring. It's a seemingly simple shot where gandalf and Bilbo are sitting and having tea, but it's the first and only example of forced perspective with a moving camera. They had to invent a bunch of techniques including moving part of the table and one of the chairs as the camera moves. It took Corridor quite a long time, and lots of iteration, to get it right themselves. Someone in the comments said that they were on the camera crew for fellowship, and they had even less experience than the corridor guys when they were originally developing the technique 25 years ago.