Iconic Bloopers on Instagram: "Elf brought one of Old Hollywood’s smartest tricks back to the big screen. To make Will Ferrell’s Buddy tower over the North Pole elves, director Jon Favreau avoided CGI and green screens entirely. Instead, he relied on forced perspective — a classic in-camera illusion later perfected in The Lord of the Rings. Oversized sets were built in the foreground, while normal-scale sets sat farther back. By placing Ferrell closer to the camera and the elves deeper in the fr