We all enjoy watching movies, and let's face it, if you don't, you probably won't be venturing on to this website in the first place. Over the years, there have been many changes in how movies are created, especially when considering practical effects, sets, and props. Unlike films from the "Golden Age," where these things were built by to hand to look as real as possible, now they are created digitally, after the fact, in a Post House. Its amazing, the kind of story telling you can achieve with Visual Special Effects. Take this VFX reel from the Great Gatsby for example:

My name is Chris Godfrey and I was the VFX supervisor on the film. Baz has graciously agreed to let us release this 'before and afters' reel to show our peer group the VFX work completed on his film 'The Great Gatsby'. While this specific reel was the work of Animal Logic (as my primary vendor), in total I worked with 7 vendors including Animal Logic, Rising Sun and Iloura in Australia, ILM in San Francisco and also Prime Focus and Method Vancouver. We also ran an amazing internal SWAT team that completed over 400 shots. Congratulations to all who did such fabulous work on almost 1500 shots. Many thanks to Baz, CM, Catherine Knapman, Chris DeFaria and Mark Brown - and of course Prue Fletcher and Joyce Cox.

This goes to show there are some very talented people out there, not to mention the actors/actresses... who have to to get into character by imagining the world around them.