Chrissy:Wow, that movie was amazing, but I can't believe that they blew up the Eiffel Tower.
I bet the French are really pissed.
Jack:You're kidding, right?
They didn't really blow up the Eiffel Tower.
They used special effects to make it look that way.
Chrissy:Are you sure? It really looked like the real thing.
Jack:They used a scale model or a computer-generated image of the Eiffel Tower and added some pyrotechnics or other visual effects to create what you saw on the screen.
It's like a big optical illusion.
I can't believe you really thought they blew up the Eiffel Tower.
Chrissy:Oh no, I didn't. I was just kidding.
But you have to admit that it was pretty cool that they got the real president of the United States to kill that monster, right?
Jack:You must be messing with my mind again.
That wasn't the president.
That was an actor wearing prosthetics and makeup standing in front of a green screen.
They added the monster later in post-production.
Chrissy:Oh, right, sure.
But you have to hand it to them for moving a section of the Great Wall of China to New York City, right?
Jack:Oh, boy...
