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Forced Perspective

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73 feature instances
58 referencing feature instances

Forced Perspective	type	FeatureClass
Forced Perspective	label	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective	page	ForcedPerspective
Forced Perspective	comment	An intentional exploitation of the camera's 2-D vision. Place an object closer to the camera, and so long as it's in focus, it looks bigger. Or, place something in the distance, and it looks smaller. This is one of the oldest Camera Tricks, and dates back to early still photography. In the pre-CGI days, this was one of the most commonly used techniques to make sets appear larger than they actually were. This can be augmented by placing children or "little people" into the miniature background so that they look like they're full-size adults, although this only works if they are seen from a distance. The only really complicated part of this is focus. You need a camera lens that will focus on both long and short distances at the same time, or one or the other will end up blurry. (See Depth of Field, the span of distance along the shot axis in which objects will be in focus.) Compare Depth Deception (when this happens in-story for comedic effect), Perspective Magic, Vertigo Effect. See also Prop. Sub-Trope of In-Camera Effects.
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Forced Perspective / int_11b7db91	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In "Videomakers", when Finn and Jake are making a movie, Finn equips a frog with a miniature chariot and instructs Princess Bubblegum to stand back so that she appears to be riding the chariot.
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Forced Perspective / int_14a837ea	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_14a837ea	comment	Awful Hospital has a living version of this: thanks to the uniquely subjective Multiverse of the Perception Range, Bloodstain appears to the protagonist and the reader as a, well, bloodstain across any number of surfaces that forms a humanoid outline from the viewer's perspective — even when viewed from multiple angles at once.
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Forced Perspective / int_1e015a5d	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_1e015a5d	comment	The Empire Strikes Back employed children dressed as Rebel soldiers and technicians in the background of shots to make the Echo Base hangar look larger than it was.
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Forced Perspective / int_25831196	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_25831196	comment	When making his experimental short film Eaux d'Artifice, Kenneth Anger wanted to make the fountains in the ornate garden look bigger. So, instead of casting a full-sized woman as his actress, he hired a little person.
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Forced Perspective / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "Fear of Flying": When we first see Marge watching Alive, the camera is positioned head on and we're led to believe she's just sitting on the couch. After Lisa notes how tense she looks, we then cut to a side view, and see that Marge is actually standing stooped over a few feet in front of the couch. "Simpsons Tall Tales": Marge sees Homer in the distance running towards her. She reaches her arms out ready to hug him, only to realize Homer is a giant (playing Paul Bunyan) and barreling towards her at a dangerous speed.
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Forced Perspective / int_309aea60	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_309aea60	comment	During Super Bowl LV, the Halftime Show begins with The Weeknd sitting in a convertible car that appears to be a Dynamic Entry still, the car frozen in the midst of traveling out from a glowing diamond-shaped frame resembling the Las Vegas sign. The camera then pans around this sign as The Weeknd gets out of the car, revealing the car to be on the ground and the frame actually made out of four pieces arranged to line up perfectly at the camera angle the Halftime Show begins at.
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Forced Perspective / int_32c3b145	comment	Canada's Worst Driver used this to set up a gag in the first episode of Season 13. Andrew announced that in view of all the complaints about what the bad drivers do to cars on the show, they were going to do all the driver training with remote control cars instead. One of the RC cars on the table was actually the season's "hero car", parked at the far end of the runway to make it look the same size as the toys.
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Forced Perspective / int_3e374b30	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_3e374b30	comment	Used in various sequences in The Dark Knight Rises to make Tom Hardy as Bane seem much bigger than Hardy's 5'9" stature. This is readily apparent in the sewer scene with Jim Gordon, in which various techniques (shooting Hardy from behind and having the other actors stand farther away, shooting him from below, and a good ol Scully Box) are employed to give the sense that Bane is a massive human being.
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Forced Perspective / int_3e5c6c5a	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	The paintings for Tiny-Huge Island in Super Mario 64 also make use of this. The one in front is of normal size, but the other two on the side appear to be, too... until you approach them. This is an example of an Ames room, a room that's smaller on one side and bigger on the other to make it seem like people in it are changing in size as they move across it.
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Forced Perspective / int_3f3abe9	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: When the family looks for a new planet to settle on, their first choice looks remarkably Earth-like. When Rick starts to take the spaceship down for a landing, he suddenly bonks the ship into the planet, revealing that it's much closer and much smaller than it appeared.
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Forced Perspective / int_420038c6	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_420038c6	comment	In Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque, Dangeresque tries to force perspective to make it look like the guy in the window of the next building over is being attacked by something on the windowsill in front of him, in order to fake the photo evidence he needs.
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Forced Perspective / int_43576f5	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_43576f5	comment	A minor example in Supernatural usually used to make Dean, played by 6'1" Jensen Ackles, seem taller, or at least not puny compared to his 6'5" younger brother.
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Forced Perspective / int_5030d261	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_5030d261	comment	Used on the 1993 remake of Attack of the 50-Foot Woman. A vast improvement over the original, which had to make do with a papier mache hand and double-exposure.
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Forced Perspective / int_50e2e357	comment	Almost exactly the same trick was used in a deleted scene set inside a Klingon prison from Star Trek (2009). A hallway was made to look bigger by (you guessed it) casting children as the guards. Also, Kirk was played by a child on a scaled-down set in the shot where he runs into the ice cave on Delta Vega.
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Forced Perspective / int_52201ab4	comment	The final episode of Ultra Fight Orb uses this effect when the protagonist, Ultraman Orb, reverts himself to human form and looks upwards at his 50-meter-tall Ultramen comrades. This shot is seemingly achieved by having the actors playing the Ultras stand on a raised platform while having the camera aimed upwards from ground level.
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Forced Perspective / int_531c562b	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_531c562b	comment	This shot was parodied on Top Secret!, with the phone revealed to be an oversized prop when the character answered it.
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Forced Perspective / int_5755b96a	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: When Roy finds a piece of the rare and precious Starmetal to reforge his Ancestral Weapon, it appears to dwarf him at first, but then he walks up and picks it up in the palm of his hand.
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Forced Perspective / int_5ed0217f	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_5ed0217f	comment	Used as part of the Cutout mechanic in Paper Mario: Color Splash in which Mario needs to line multiple objects together to form shapes at particular camera angles, upon which he can manipulate the objects as if they were that shape. For instance, a series of objects with flat tops, if they line up at an angle to form a stair shape, can then be climbed as if they're a set of stairs as long as the camera remains at that angle.
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Forced Perspective / int_6108ba8d	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_6108ba8d	comment	The Last Jedi even humorously references this, when a massive robotic limb comes down over the camera with ominous music and plentiful dramatic steam spouting everywhere - only for a zoom-out to reveal that it's an extreme close-up of a clothing iron.
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Forced Perspective / int_6277095a	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_6277095a	comment	Analog: The July 1939 cover (inspired by "Black Destroyer") has a black cat-like creature in the foreground on a rock with a rocketship and crew in the distant background. It initially looks like the cat-like creature is larger than the ship, but more careful examination of the rocks and people show it to be a forced perspective trick. In the story, "Pussy" is around the size of a human instead of bigger than the ship.
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Analog (Magazine)	hasFeature	Forced Perspective / int_6277095a
Forced Perspective / int_6cb2d709	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_6cb2d709	comment	The Harry Potter movies use this as one of the techniques to make the 6'1" Robbie Coltrane, as Hagrid, appear to be a giant.
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Forced Perspective / int_701afc50	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_701afc50	comment	In Spellbound the climax is a POV shot of the villain aiming a gun at Dr. Peterson then shooting himself after she convinces him that he can't get away with it. Because the optics of the day couldn't allow both the gun and Dr. Peterson to be in focus, the gun was a large prop attached to the camera, making it a sort of inversion of the usual forced perspective shot. Hitchcock also did this in The Lady Vanishes, making a pair of poisoned drinks look more threatening by using enlarged prop glasses in the foreground.
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Forced Perspective / int_7362e6cc	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_7362e6cc	comment	Used in Little Shop of Horrors to show the "growth" of the small Audrey II prop.
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Forced Perspective / int_7ab10627	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_7ab10627	comment	For the Engineering set first used in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the intermix shaft that runs along the back of the Enterprise's secondary hull to the warp engine pylons was built in forced perspective. In one shot, you can see a man standing at the end of the coil - it's actually a child.
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Forced Perspective / int_7c038c18	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: The gag is played with in "Last Train to Bustville". Linda does in fact see the boys' face-shaped hot air balloons, but were placed directly behind a rack with clothes resembling their everyday wear. Because of the mother's poor eyesight, she assumes it's really the boys, says hi, and walks away.
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Forced Perspective / int_7fd1ab56	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_7fd1ab56	comment	The original King Kong (1933) used multi-layered Forced Perspective shots to integrate actors, painted scenery, and pre-filmed clips of stop-motion creatures.
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Forced Perspective / int_7fd403f8	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_7fd403f8	comment	Referenced in Galaxy Quest. When "Captain Taggart" tries to explain that they're actors, he holds his fingers about two inches apart and says, "The ship is that big."
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Forced Perspective / int_81692f99	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek movies: For the Engineering set first used in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the intermix shaft that runs along the back of the Enterprise's secondary hull to the warp engine pylons was built in forced perspective. In one shot, you can see a man standing at the end of the coil - it's actually a child. Almost exactly the same trick was used in a deleted scene set inside a Klingon prison from Star Trek (2009). A hallway was made to look bigger by (you guessed it) casting children as the guards. Also, Kirk was played by a child on a scaled-down set in the shot where he runs into the ice cave on Delta Vega. The turbolift shaft from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is done with forced perspective. Unfortunately, the illusion is destroyed if you do what they did in this movie: they took the camera straight towards and very close to the background so that the difference in angles was noticeable. (Of course, the deck labels going up to 78 also breaks the illusion.) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan uses a forced perspective trick in the Starfleet Headquarters scene with Kirk and Spock, using miniatures in the foreground to make the set look much bigger than it actually was.
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Forced Perspective / int_8351aa89	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_8351aa89	comment	The final scene of the so-called American version of Strangers on a Train has Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. Alfred Hitchcock wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth-of-field of contemporary motion picture lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus. So Hitchcock had an oversized phone constructed and placed in the foreground. Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one. This shot was parodied on Top Secret!, with the phone revealed to be an oversized prop when the character answered it.
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Forced Perspective / int_8a40eb2b	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_8a40eb2b	comment	Also used in reverse in one shot from The Fellowship of the Ring: While climbing Caradhras, Frodo falls and drops the Ring. There is a shot of the Ring lying in the snow in the foreground—the filmmakers used a much larger model of the Ring in this shot to make it seem closer, while still in-focus.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	hasFeature	Forced Perspective / int_8a40eb2b
Forced Perspective / int_8b7b9cd5	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The famous opening scene from A New Hope uses this. The Rebel Blockade Runner model is bigger than the Star Destroyer. Though it's not quite the same thing — the models were filmed separately and composited using Blue Screen.
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Forced Perspective / int_9058ad7e	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9058ad7e	comment	The Terminator used forced perspective a lot. The scene where an automated hunter-killer is rolling over human skulls, the skulls are actually about the size of golf balls and the HK is merely a model. The ship that flies overhead is actually built from several model planes sold in hobby stores.
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The Terminator	hasFeature	Forced Perspective / int_9058ad7e
Forced Perspective / int_9068877a	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9068877a	comment	Used frequently in Red vs. Blue for the character Junior, a baby alien. Since the game engine does not allow the player to resize their characters, the makers used a regular sized Elite, but just stood him in the background.
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Forced Perspective / int_90a62d7d	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_90a62d7d	comment	In Hot Shots! Part Deux, this is played for laughs with the helicopter flying in with Topper into the military base. It looks full size, even knocking over tents at it approaches, but as it comes in for a landing, it turns out to be a small remote-controlled helicopter, and a nearby officer yells for someone to pick it up before people start tripping over it.
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Forced Perspective / int_91fedfaa	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_91fedfaa	comment	In the "Making of" episode of Walking with Dinosaurs, paleontologist Kent Stevens first appears to be gazing at a life-size Diplodocus statue, which is revealed to be a miniature model as he walks closer to the camera.
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Forced Perspective / int_9322b3aa	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9322b3aa	comment	Hitchcock also did this in The Lady Vanishes, making a pair of poisoned drinks look more threatening by using enlarged prop glasses in the foreground.
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Forced Perspective / int_93a8c21	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_93a8c21	comment	In City Girl a failed shot leads to a surreal effect. In this film about life Down on the Farm, a shot was staged with a reaper in the foreground and a model of the farmhouse in the background; the idea obviously was to move the model of the farmhouse to make it appear that the reaper is moving. But onscreen it looks like the reaper is stationary (which of course it was) and the farmhouse is floating by on a sea of wheat.
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Forced Perspective / int_976efc02	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 uses this a few times. "Future War": Mike is inspired by the film to run to the back of the theater and start "threatening" the bots with forced-perspective shadow puppets. "The Screaming Skull": The end of the episode sees Observer shrink Bobo — this is achieved by having Bobo stand at the back of the room, while Observer sticks his hand in front, pretending to hold Bobo. The makers of the show were well aware of the hypocrisy of using this "special" effect after having made fun of it so many times.
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Forced Perspective / int_988629da	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_988629da	comment	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan uses a forced perspective trick in the Starfleet Headquarters scene with Kirk and Spock, using miniatures in the foreground to make the set look much bigger than it actually was.
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Forced Perspective / int_9ca14a5b	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9ca14a5b	comment	In 1927 Sunrise used Forced Perspective to make the city set appear larger.
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Forced Perspective / int_9e6d1645	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9e6d1645	comment	The sets and characters in Teletubbies are much larger than they appear in real life: the Teletubbies themselves are nearly 10 feet tall, so the sets and props are much larger in order to make them seem smaller and more child-like. The cute little bunnies found around Teletubbyland are actually Flemish Giants, one of the largest breeds of rabbit, many measuring as much as 4 feet long.
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Forced Perspective / int_9f5a225e	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_9f5a225e	comment	Darby O'Gill and the Little People used it for the scenes where Darby interacted with the Leprechauns.
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Forced Perspective / int_a0262740	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_a0262740	comment	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had oversized furniture and props built for some scenes to reduce Deep Roy, already only four feet high, down to Oompa-Loompa size. Other scenes with Oompa-Loompas used animatronics or CGI.
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Forced Perspective / int_a183d57f	type	Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: As Fry watches the view outside the Planet Express ship and marvels at how big outer space looks, a planet that first seemed far away suddenly spatters on the windshield and is wiped away by the windshield wiper.
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Forced Perspective / int_a1bda379	comment	Night of the Lepus, instead of using models like Them! or green screens like Tarantula!, opted to film normal rabbits running around tiny model villages in slow motion to simulate a giant rabbit rampage. Unfortunately this did nothing to make them look any less adorable.
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Forced Perspective / int_a7d791a7	comment	The Graham Norton Show did a hilarious opening joke with Graham showing off his ride to actor and car enthusiast Matt LeBlanc and urging him to take it for a drive. Then Matt walks up to the "car", which is a little toy strategically positioned in front of the camera.
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Forced Perspective / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The filmmakers revealed that they used forced perspective several times. One example would be in Episode 5, the conversation between Nori and The Stranger when they sit on the rocks was actually pulled off totally in camera without the aid of any digital tricks.
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Forced Perspective / int_b18ca9e5	comment	Beakman's World used the perspective to good effect in one of its segments on Optical Illusions. The trick is, of course, to fool a viewer into thinking the assistant is in the rat's hand.
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Forced Perspective / int_b19549dd	comment	Equinox was Dennis Muren making an homage to the classic monster movies. It was shot when he was fairly unknown with a tiny budget as a student project. They used these tricks very effectively to create fights with giant monsters and ordinary humans. The giant is just a normal man seen in forced perspective with his victims - off in the distance - nailing the timing of their choreography.
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Forced Perspective / int_b24f49ab	comment	Back to the Future Part II: The scenes set at the 1955 construction site of Lyon Estates were filmed on a soundstage with the background scenery laid out in forced perspective. The filmmakers did not want to return to the remote location they had used in the first film. The tunnel is much shorter than it appears to be. The filmmakers made it look longer by placing the lights further from the camera closer together.
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Forced Perspective / int_b39dea58	comment	The core mechanic of Superliminal, where flat representations of 3D objects viewed at a certain angle can be manipulated as though they were in 3D.
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Forced Perspective / int_b3ebd61e	comment	Star Wars: Rogue Leader plays this when inside the Death Star's reactor. The entire room is rigged to look far, far larger than it actually is through use of high-res textures, forced perspective, and slowing you down considerably. It looks amazing at first, but if you fly down toward the floor the whole illusion falls through and you can see clearly that you're just moving slowly through an average-sized area.
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Forced Perspective / int_b7c31e52	comment	In 20 Million Miles to Earth, to set up a confrontation between the alien Ymir and an elephant, Ray Harryhausen needed establishing shots of a real elephant with a zookeeper. A small actor in a zookeepers' uniform was used to make the live-action elephant look bigger than it really was, so that it matched the scale of the animated elephant used in the fight scene.
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Forced Perspective / int_b9a0d78d	comment	The famous Space Jockey set from the first Alien movie was much smaller than it appears, with the Jockey actually the size of a normal human. The gigantism was achieved through clever use of perspectives and child actors.
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Forced Perspective / int_bac60822	comment	An unusual use of Forced Perspective happens in the 1987 film The Gate, where a zombie menacing the kid leads falls to the floor and breaks up into little demons. The demons are full-sized humans in suits, filmed in forced perspective bunched up in a roughly humanoid shape (animation is used to transition between the fall and the breakup). You can see the scene at 1:15 in the trailer.
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Forced Perspective / int_bbe33e8a	comment	Done in-universe in an episode of Northern Exposure where they're putting on a production of Bus Stop and the stage is quite shallow, so the back wall of the diner set has very low doors to make it look like it's further away than it is. Chris has to duck his head in order to get through.
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Forced Perspective / int_c18bfdae	comment	The iconic opening shot of future Los Angeles in Blade Runner was a highly detailed trapezoidal model fifteen feet deep using forced perspective and a lot of smoke to give the illusion of an entire city.
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Forced Perspective / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Hearth's Warming Eve", as Platinum and Clover are seeking new lands, Platinum gasps and points out a raging river that they have to cross, with the camera providing a close-up of these dangerous waters. The next shot pulls back enough to show that this "river" is merely a small, narrow creek.
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Forced Perspective / int_c43df4d8	comment	Frequently used in Doctor Who to make model spaceships or bases look full-size during location filming. A particularly awful example of a shot of this type is when the Brigadier summons a model kit tank to fight the K-1 Robot in "Robot", represented by pushing it into frame with the robot in the far distance - unfortunately, it just lets us get a good look at the plastic tank and the grass on the ground gives a really clear idea that the robot is further away than we're supposed to think it is.
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Forced Perspective / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Parodied in the Monty Python's Flying Circus "Scott of the Sahara" sketch for Oates' fight against the "electric penguin, twenty feet high, with green tentacles that sting people". The film's microscopic budget means it is painfully obvious the penguin is a toy about six or eight inches tall placed just in front of the camera. When the penguin is defeated, it topples backwards with all the drama of a bowling pin falling over.
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Forced Perspective / int_d3634dbb	comment	For the airport scenes in Casablanca, scaled down airplanes and midget extras were used to make the airport set look larger than it was.
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Forced Perspective / int_d482e71f	comment	Parodied in the French and Saunders pastiche of The Lord of the Rings, with moments like Bag End's chandelier noticably moving so that Gandalf can walk into it, or Gandalf and Frodo suddenly realising they've got the big and small teacups the wrong way round (they're supposed to look like they're the same size).
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Forced Perspective / int_d578ee98	comment	The turbolift shaft from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is done with forced perspective. Unfortunately, the illusion is destroyed if you do what they did in this movie: they took the camera straight towards and very close to the background so that the difference in angles was noticeable. (Of course, the deck labels going up to 78 also breaks the illusion.)
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Forced Perspective / int_d685caa	comment	Tiny Tiptoes uses camera tricks and prosthetics to make the 5 feet 8 inches-tall Gary Oldman look like a dwarf. The result was panned by critics for being unconvincing.
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Forced Perspective / int_dab6270b	comment	A variation was used on Stand by Me when the boys are trying to outrun a train on a bridge. A telephoto lens was used to compress the depth of the shot and make the train seem like it was barreling in on them, when it was actually a safe distance away.
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Forced Perspective / int_deafd1c4	comment	In the "French Revolution" part of History of the World Part I, King Louis (really, The Garcon de Pisse [Piss-Boy] who is doubling for him) runs down the hallway of the Louvre (when it was a royal house), and the floor slopes upward as the walls shrink inward.
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Forced Perspective / int_e5dc18a2	comment	Some of the puzzles in RiME involve getting multiple objects to form an arch when viewed from a certain angle.
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Forced Perspective / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In Revenge of the Sith, Lucas used Forced Perspective to make Darth Vader seem much taller than Palpatine.
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Forced Perspective / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings Used to great effect in the movies to help the average-height actors playing hobbits and dwarves seem to-scale with their man and elf co-stars — as noted in entry #6 of this Cracked article. Also used in reverse in one shot from The Fellowship of the Ring: While climbing Caradhras, Frodo falls and drops the Ring. There is a shot of the Ring lying in the snow in the foreground—the filmmakers used a much larger model of the Ring in this shot to make it seem closer, while still in-focus. The Rings movies also pioneered moving forced perspective. Normally, FP only works if the camera doesn't move. By having parts of the set and either the "big" or "small" actors on tracks, moving in sync with the camera, the creators were able to eliminate this limitation. The filmmakers also lucked out by casting the quite tall John Rhys-Davies as Gimli, as his height compared to the Hobbit actors was the same as what the difference between dwarves and hobbits should be, so that they could be filmed together and require fewer composite shots.
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Forced Perspective / int_f31ebb02	comment	Hellboy II: The Golden Army used such shots frequently. The alleys in the underground market were designed with the diminishing height trick to make them look longer, and the shot of the intricate "egg" opening in the elven prince's hand is actually a mechanical puppet the size of a trash can in a set of model fingertips, with the actor acting about ten feet further in the background.
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Forced Perspective / int_fc7f736a	comment	In Innerspace, after Scrimshaw and Canker are shrunk 50%, there are a few scenes where they are seen with full-size actors. These shots were filmed using forced perspective. For the car scene, the rear of the car is actually twice as large as a normal car rear, and was about 20 feet away. During the scene half size hands and double-size heads were used. Using this method, the film makers didn't have to worry about compositing two separate shots in post production, so the shots could be completed quicker. Even in the final scene with the suitcase, the case was twice as large, but the hand that closes it was real, closer to the camera in sync with the closing.
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Forced Perspective / int_ff53947e	comment	In Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, the rune puzzles work this way. From the correct angle, some background objects align so to form certain runes, which you have to focus on to open the door. The Valravn puzzles are similar, but instead of background objects, there are shining fragments hanging in the air, and you have to find the right perspective for them to form Valravn's sigil.
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Forced Perspective / int_ffe221aa	comment	Cadaver (2020): When Leonora is being led through the kitchen with her family, she sees kitchen islands stacked with vegetables on them. When she sneaks back through it later on, though, she discovers the vegetables were all fake, still images of piles of food positioned to look real from a certain angle.
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