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* In the movie ''[[Interstellar]]'', the creators showed their work with the black hole. They wanted time dilation and their scientific consultant suggested a black hole. When they asked the scientific consultant to help them make the black hole, instead of just telling him about it, he gave them a bunch of algorithms. About year later with a thousands of computers number crunching ([[Doing It for the Art|because they wanted to do this right]]), they got the result. [[Coconut Effect|The creators thought there was a bug in the program when they saw that the black hole they got looked like no other black hole portrayal before]]. It looked so different because this was the first time (in the main stream at least, perhaps outside the mainstream too) the raw data was used to create images to the standard of accuracy they went for. The scientific consultant said "“Why, of course. That’s what it would do.” Even so, the consultant was surprised with the result. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150411061940/http://www.theskepticsguide.org/black-hole-in-movie-interstellar-is-most-accurate-ever-in-any-movie]
* Before making ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', [[Stanley Kubrick]] and several of his collaborators read dozens of reports made by the Air Force and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Strangelove himself is caricature of Wernher von Braun, Edward Teller and Herman Kahn. Interestingly it was Kahn who suggested the Doomsday Machine, which was exactly the kind of defense that Herman Kahn fought against in his work. This attention to the smallest technical and military details is where the film gets its infamous [[Black Comedy|nervous humor]]. Additionally, at the time of the filming, the interior of a B-52 was highly classified. The film crew made up the layout and look by extrapolation from the older B-29, and laid out the floor plan based on the external measurements of the 52. They did such a good job, the Air Force was concerned briefly that they had an insider source.
* Along with [[Arthur C. Clarke]], Kubrick made the same effort with ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', in regards to space travel and general scientific accuracy, even though the atomic-powered spaceship does not have radiator fins to get rid of the reactor's waste heat. The makers intentionally left them off, because after a decade teaching the public that there is no air in space, they didn't want them wondering why the spacecraft has wings.
* The makers of ''[[Aubrey-Maturin|Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'' extended Patrick O'Brian's already-extensive [[Shown Their Work|shown work]] by digging deep into history for minute costume and hairstyle details (subsequently rendered in period-appropriate materials with period-appropriate techniques), the inner and outer workings of period-specific tall ships (they fired actual cannons to get the sound effect right), and cultural miscellany to illustrate the backdrop of the film. All extras and actors filmed aboard the ship were put through a "boot camp" to prepare them for their shipboard duties, and most of the filming actually took place at sea aboard a replica of an 18th-century tall ship.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk&feature=PlayList&p=CDFEA6D52E5CC0EC&index=5 "The Galaxy Song"] in ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' is pretty damn accurate for being a joke in a humour movie. Eric Idle has performed that song several times since it was in the movie, and where people have given him better approximations for the distances and speeds mentioned, he sometimes works them in. Remember, they were graduates of Cambridge.
** Terry Jones is well versed in Arthurian lore so, ironically for a parody, ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' incorporates a lot of details most [[King Arthur]] works skip over.
* ''[[Once]]'' showcases Glen Hansard's knowledge of the minutiae of busking, such as cover versions earning far more than original songs.
* Since it was a [[Deconstructive Parody]], the creators of ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' spent a good deal of time in research and interviews of actual police forces, which doesn't become fully noticeable until you see the "Fuzz Fact" commentary. For instance, they were spot-on about all the politically-correct vocabulary guidelines, and the "unofficial punishments" of making officers buy donuts and ice-cream for minor offences such as forgetting their hats. The best part? Instead of sudden [[Genre Shift]] into documentary, all these details are woven into the characterisation, such as showing the protagonist as being particularly stuffy and by-the-book for following all the vocab guidelines to the letter.
** The scenes where the officers are filling paperwork were added ''specifically'' because the cops they interviewed lamented that paperwork is the biggest facet of the job and the one least seen in the media. This inspired the director to make those scenes where paperwork is presented like if it was an action scene, with Nick Angel eventually going [[Guns Akimbo|Pens Akimbo]] while filling forms.
* ''[[The Matrix|The Matrix Reloaded]]'' features a brief glimpse of Trinity hacking a power grid mainframe. Compared with most films' [[Hollywood Hacking|dumbed-down portrayals of "hacking a computer"]], this instance is remarkably realistic, despite being on-screen for only a few seconds, and references actual hacking tools and known security vulnerabilities (circa 2001). It is likely the creators felt the need to "get it right" since the concept of computer hacking is a central theme in the ''Matrix'' films.
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* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' is quite famous for its realistic depiction of Dinosaurs. Not only did the movie had spectacular effects and animatronics but their movement, according to experts, was also modeled quite realistically. Bipedals run like bipedals and T. Rex takes the right stance when lowers its head to feed or bite the car's tires in its first attack. Actually, the animators did in-depth research about the movement of the dinosaurs and tested things on their selves like running and jumping obstacles, before animating the scene with the flock of Gallimimuses (being bipedal species). This is unlike the usual depiction of massive animals, like in Jackson's ''[[King Kong]]'' (including Kong himself and the dinosaurs).
** Unfortunately, it's already fallen afoul of [[Science Marches On]]. While the behavior of the dinosaurs is correct, their appearance is almost certainly not-- at the time the movie was made, there was an active debate over whether velociraptors were feathered. Now, we're almost entirely certain they were.
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** They also do pretty well with their geology terminology.
* [[Pixar]] has become noted for this, especially in some of their most recent films. Some highlights: (just watch the DVD extras for all the details)
** In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', animators wore shoes bolted to 2x4s to figure out how toy soldiers would actually walk.
** Coral reefs and particularly how things move underwater for [[Finding Nemo]].
** ''[[Cars]]'' is full of an astounding amount of detail. The King ''is'' Richard Petty's iconic 1970 Plymouth Superbird, down to virtually every detail, and his crash at the end of the film is a chillingly exact recreation of Petty's 1988 Daytona 500 crash. (Now watch the movie again and realize that that crash actually happened, with a person inside the car and try not to get goosebumps.) The sound engineers recorded engine sounds of the exact make and models of each kind of car featured in the film so they would sound exactly right even though virtually none of the audience would know any difference. The King's wife is voiced by Petty's [[Real Life]] wife and was modeled after the car Mrs. Petty drove in to follow her husband to races earlier in his career.
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