What would movies look like without visual effects

While watching a movie in cinemas or at home, sometimes we forget that what we see on the screen is not reality, but the product of the painstaking work of many visual effects specialists. All these are special effects, which as a result look like reality. However, what would these films look like if they were shot without these special effects?

We put together footage from films shot using computer graphics and scenes on film sets before special effects were applied to the images.

A shot from the movie "Life of Pi", when a boat with a man and a Bengal tiger got lost in the vast Pacific Ocean.

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying special effects.

A shot from the movie "Gravity" with Sandra Balok.

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

A shot from the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street".

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

A shot from the movie "The Great Gatsby" with the scene of New York in the 1920s.

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

Superman flies in the movie "Man of Steel"

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

Have you seen Tony Stark in knight's armor in the movie "Iron Man 3"

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

Transformer Optimus Prime on the big screen in "Transformers".

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

A shot from the film "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

Without visual effects, the same frame of the movie "Alice in Wonderland".

When James Franco in the movie "Oz: The Great and the Terrible" travels through a Magical land…

... he only walked along the yellow brick road.

Electronic versions of buildings and structures were only then modeled and painted.

Scenes from the film "Pacific Rim"

However, this does not look quite so rosy in real life.

A shot from the movie "Star Trek: Retribution" in 2013.

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

A shot of the amazing final scene in the movie "The Lone Ranger"

And it was also filmed in front of a blue screen.

A shot from the movie "The Hunger Games".

It was shot using a flat and green screen and 3D sensors.

The frame from the movie "The Avengers" looks realistic.

Most of the shooting of such scenes is carried out by successive actions of the team against the background of a green screen.

"The Avengers" was not filmed in New York.

In fact, it was filmed 10 kilometers from New York.

So when Scarlett Johansson flew through the sky in The Avengers, she was safe on earth.

And the scene of the shooting of the film before applying visual effects.

In fact, there were not 80,000 spectators in the stadium in the movie "The Dark Knight".

Small groups of people took part in the shooting, which were then filmed and distributed to the stadium, and it seems complete in the film.