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How pumped I would be just to meet VFX artists and watch them work, I wouldn't be able to shut up about all the cool shit they did for my movie. I can only assume that filmmakers either don't respect or fear VFX so they don't involve themselves at all, when it's the backbone of movie magic.

Confession: Every time I see a CGI heavy VFX breakdown movie from a movie that kept hyping up the practical FX and said they did it all in-camera, I add something about its CGI use and how the marketing lied about it to the IMDb trivia.

Willis O'Brien's biography by Gregory Kulon includes reproductions of very misleading contemporary press accounts about the making of "King Kong," though the production seemed to just be doing a total blackout on any information about the effects to preserve mystery.