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Since Jules got cut off: the punchline to the Masters of the Universe entry is that the final fight between He-Man and Skeletor was shot while the set was literally being dismantled around the cast and crew. The dark lighting and liberal use of close-ups are meant to disguise it.
According to Campbell (and backed up by Raimi) in late 1982, the Raimi brothers tried to pay their own parents back once the film made money. Their folks said: 'No. We gave you the money because we believed in your dream. You have a lot of friends who worked on your movie who have similar dreams. You don't owe us, you owe them.' So a few months later their former film editors on Evil Dead mentioned they were working on a feature. They gave Raimi access to script, originally just wanting feedback. Raimi said: 'How much do you need to make this happen?' They told him... but he couldn't give them quite that much. But he gave them quite a bit. Those two film editors were Ethan and Joel Coen and the movie was Blood Simple. (Raimi and the Coens went to film school together.) Nor was Evil Dead and Blood Simple the only Coens and Raimi's only collaboration. Raimi got a special thanks credited on Fargo and Big Lebowski for loaning them his Delta '88. That's right... The Dude and Ash Williams drive the EXACT same car. And I don't mean the both drive Delta '88s. I mean the EXACT SAME exact same car.
Mostly. Joel was involved in Evil Dead as an assistant film editor to Edna Ruth Paul (who then consulted with the Coens on Blood Simple). Other Raimi/Coen crossovers include (but are not limited to) Frances McDormand appearing in the Raimi film Crimewave and Raimi showing up in a cameo in Miller's Crossing.
@@snowdenwyatt6276 Plus Bruce Campbell appearing in Fargo and Intolerable Cruelty. Though Campbell in Fargo was footage from an actual local soap opera he was in for a while. Whereas the Coens actively sought out Campbell for the Intolerable Cruelty. They claim they didn't write that character for him, but when they blew a lot of the casting budget on George Clooney and they found out Campbell was available, they knew they could afford him, and sort of became their first choice.
The first Mad Max paid local motorcycle gangs with beer and local cops with gas. Half of the movie’s production was paid with different consumables instead of money.
I have heard that the reason Monty Python and the Holy Grail had coconuts instead of actual horses was that they couldn’t afford them. There’s only one horse in the entire film and that only for a moment.
That's a rumour, not sure if its actually true but they probably thought it would be a hilarious attention to the movie so fans knew this was a true comedy. I saw it on TV decades later but friends told me they heard the audience couldnt stop laughing just from the intro part alone.
There was a bottom-of-the-barrel horror movie in the mid-1960s called Monster a Go-Go (believe it or not), in which a space capsule goes up into orbit with a human astronaut, then comes back down to Earth with an alien monster, which the authorities tried to track down as it went on a rampage. When they ran out of money and everything came to a screeching halt, the producers just had a narrator tell the audience that the whole thing didn't really happen.
Peter Jackson's Bad Taste was so low budget that the cast and crew would work their regular day jobs during the week and film all their scenes on the weekends. It took 4 years to make.
What? No Deadpool? The duffel bag full of weapons "conveniently" left behind in Dopinder's taxi was the result of the fact there was literally no more money left to shoot the climactic battle Tim Miller & Co. wanted to bring to the screen. Deadpool himself exclaims that he had forgotten the ammunition. He also fired several jabs at Fox (the studio which had produced the movie) for not providing enough of a budget to show more members of the X-Men than Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
There's an ancient running joke about how somethiing looks like "a film student's movie" but the problem for film students wasn't their skill, they tend to have a lot of that, but the incredible expense of film and processing. When, as Joe Bob Briggs said, it costs $100 anytime you pull that trigger it cuts into what you can make.
I have watched Cutthroat Island long time ago and I liked it a lot xd Was surprised when I heard many years later it was such a massive flop... Gotta rewatch it out of sheer curiosity xd
Darren Aronofsky's Pi was so low budget that he got family and friends to each give him $100 and raised 60k. Once it was a success, he gave each of them $150 back. Also, he never secured any locations for filming and had crew members watch out for cops so they could stop filming and vacate the premises at a moment's notice.
Fun fact about Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The coconuts were also the result of a budget constraint. They originally planned to have horses but couldn't afford them, to which Michael Palin suggested they just use the radio method to create the sound of hoof beats instead.
My favourite El Mariachi guff is in the opening, where he gets the coconut. RR realised afterwards that he forgot to film him paying, so he worked the notion of getting it for free into the narration.
The removal of the 2nd unit from Masters of the Universe was nothing compared to the ending. The producer wanted to end the movie right before the climactic fight between He-Man and Skeletor, but as luck would have it, Goddard was able to get one more day of shooting. The lighting scheme of that scene was to hide the fact that most of the set pieces had been cleared out
Reminds me of Lyndsay Anderson's movie IF. Critics praised his inclusion of black and white scenes that they said gave them a dream like quality. Truth was he had run out of colour film and couldn't afford any more so was forced to use black and white film to finish the movie.
There should have at least been an honorable mention to “Return of the Killer Tomatoes” where halfway through the film they break the 4th wall and shut down the film for running out of money, only to be saved at the last minute by choosing to sacrifice artistic integrity for product placement. The movie then restarts the scene where everything is corporate sponsored and the dialog is thick with advertising nods. It’s was an extremely novel and funny thing at the time, but I haven’t rewatched to see if its schlock has held up over the years.
Evangelion also did weird stuff when they ran out of money. The last episodes were really weird and were apparently very cheap. 1:27 Nice gun ;3. Borrow money from the French Mob? That sounds dangerous. You would be in big trouble if the movie flopped. I didn't realize the Holy Grail ended that way because of budget issues. Monty Python was only $400,000? Is that a B-movie price? It's a shame The Adventures of Baron Munchausen flopped. You think it would do better if someone from Monty Python was involved. 10:18 That's all they had? That's a pretty small budget for a movie. The TMNT movie was made independently because major studios were afraid it would flop like He-Man did.
I love how they have a title card and then just basically restate what it says to stretch this video out. We could just read the title cards and get everything they are saying
Two big problems were run time and budget. In the days before video when you could only see a movie in a theater sitting there for over 3.5 hours was a deal breaker for a lot of people. If he'd cut that ridiculously long battle scene down to a reasonable length it would have helped with both problems and maybe saved the movie.
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