 There was supposed to be a shot of a big spider in a tree bursting  into flames. To achieve this, the director covered a large prop  spider with gunpowder and had two crew members sitting above it in  the tree who would drop a match on the spider. The director got the  camera up to a very fast fps to achieve a slow motion look, and had  them drop the first match. Nothing happened, so they dropped a  second. Still nothing happened, so they lit the entire book of  matches and dropped it on the spider. With nothing happening, the  director turned off the camera 