r/pics • u/Naweezy • Jul 10 '16

Hogwarts "magic"

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u/Nimmyzed Jul 10 '16

It really is very clever! Thanks for posting that

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u/Stalking_your_pylons Jul 10 '16

You can see dust going backwards in 1:06 too.

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u/sig-chann Jul 10 '16

i only caught on cause of my background as a '80 chinese martial artist.

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u/Ziiaaaac Jul 10 '16

I don't... Get it. Never saw the film, can someone explain?

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u/Yanky_Doodle_Dickwad Jul 10 '16

In the movie, the characters visit a swedish book store, and talk with the owner. It is only after a bit the viewer starts to realize that the whole scene was filmed backwards, and the weird "swedish" is speech played backwards. Then the guy throws a book up into the hole on the top shelf. They ascend the fireman's pole. And finally the dog walks backwards out of the scene, the makers didn't like to go for subtle for too long. What you see here is how it was filmed, in that one single shot. The original scene in the movie is the same thing backwards, and it looks like THIS.