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00:00Reshoots are a necessary part of filmmaking.
00:02While they've gotten a huge amount of flack over the past few years and have become synonymous
00:06with botched productions, they're not always terrible.
00:09Hell, sometimes they even turn a good movie into a great one.
00:13However, while there's often good reasons behind reshoots, sometimes they happen for
00:16reasons that nobody could have anticipated before production started.
00:20I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 9 movie reshoots that happened for ridiculous reasons.
00:25Number 9, Dark Phoenix takes so long to edit another film steals its ending.
00:30Dark Phoenix was a famously troubled production and a disappointing end to Fox's mainline
00:35superhero property.
00:36One weird complication in a series of weird complications though was that the entire ending had to be
00:42reshot because another superhero movie had pretty much an entirely identical third act.
00:48Now, I do want to stress that both movies were in production at the same time and of course
00:52didn't actually copy the other's homework but the similarities apparently between Dark
00:57Phoenix's originally space set finale and that of Captain Marvel would have drawn attention
01:02to Fox's movie quite negatively.
01:05Though the movie in question was never actually confirmed to be Captain Marvel,
01:09all signs point towards that and Star James McAvoy even came out and said to Yahoo quote
01:13The finale had to be changed.
01:16There was a lot of overlap and parallels with another superhero movie that came out a while ago end quote.
01:21In the end then the cosmic source material of Dark Phoenix was swapped out for something
01:25grounded on Earth.
01:27And this new finale didn't really make the sequel feel particularly all that spectacular.
01:32Number 8, A Faulty Light restarts a whole sequence in 1917.
01:36Okay, so this one isn't necessarily like the rest on this list.
01:401917 was of course filmed and edited to give the illusion that everything was captured in one continuous take.
01:46And while of course the film itself isn't actually just one big take from beginning to end,
01:51the film did still impressively shoot extensive sequences at a time.
01:55With lengthy takes requiring every part of a set piece to go off without a hitch
01:59so the filmmakers could capture tens of minutes of footage at a time.
02:03So, with this in mind you can imagine just how annoying it would be then
02:07to get right to the very end of one of these extensive takes and then have to reshoot everything
02:12because of one very silly mistake.
02:15Well, that's exactly what happened while filming the part where Lieutenant Leslie,
02:19played by Andrew Scott, lights a cigarette.
02:21Put simply, the lighter just didn't work and as such the entire sequence had to be reshot.
02:27Yes, this does technically count as just another take rather than reshooting the entire thing after
02:32the fact but I'm counting it because it's just so much film that you have to redo and obviously
02:36the directors were trying to get through each one with as minimal retakes as possible.
02:41So yeah, a film which executed plane crashes, explosions and elaborate battles to perfection
02:45was apparently just disrupted by a tiny faulty appliance.
02:50Number 7, Gross Hands forces Napoleon Dynamite reshoots.
02:53Who would have thought that Napoleon Dynamite, a movie with a tiny budget and practically no plot,
02:59would become a modern classic that's still being quoted 16 years after its release?
03:04Equally unexpected as that is the fact that the movie's opening credits sequence would result
03:09in a silly controversy and have to be entirely redone.
03:12Now, you may remember those opening credits as they were written on food and household objects
03:16that were moved around by a pair of hands.
03:19Well, according to an interview given to artofthetitle.com, the film's director screened the
03:24opening credits to studio executives and one of the bigwigs complained about how quote unquote
03:29gross the hands on screen looked.
03:31Furthermore, they insisted that the credits be entirely reshot with better looking hands.
03:35So, the director waited several weeks for the studio to fly out a professional hand
03:40model over for all the reshoots in question.
03:43Number 6, Test audiences hate dogs bleeding in A Fish Called Wanda.
03:47One of the funniest parts of this 1988 comedy classic is when the nervous criminal Ken attempts
03:52to murder an elderly woman and then accidentally kills each of her pet dogs in the process.
03:57Now, I know that sounds pretty traumatic when I just say it without context, but trust me,
04:01it works better in the film.
04:02Anyway, no dogs were thankfully harmed while filming those scenes in real life,
04:06and in fact, each doggy death is purposefully made to look as comedic and as fake as possible.
04:11However, as reported by the story grid writers room, test audiences were so repelled by the
04:16sight of blood dripping from the corpse of one of the dogs that the scene was reshot without any blood.
04:21Now, it's normal for comedies to reshoot entire scenes if test audiences don't find them funny.
04:25That is, of course, par for the course.
04:27But refilming a scene because test audiences couldn't bear to see a fake dog bleed fake blood?
04:33That is just maybe a little bit absurd.
04:35Number 5, Who shot first Casablanca?
04:38It's ridiculous just how tightly films were regulated and censored in the mid-20th century,
04:43especially when the Hays Code was in effect.
04:45Now, this was all pre-MPAA, and the Hays Code essentially was a system that heavily censored
04:51Hollywood movies from the 1930s to the 1960s and wouldn't allow anything quote-unquote unwholesome
04:57or quote-unquote immoral to appear on the big screen.
05:01And, as you can probably imagine, the definitions of what those things even were in the first place
05:06were, well, they were very flexible.
05:08Now, if all of that doesn't sound ridiculous enough by itself,
05:11the change they forced Casablanca in particular to make was a special brand of idiotic.
05:16As chronicled in the book Hollywood Censor, Joseph Breen and the Production Code Administration,
05:20the Code wouldn't allow Humphrey Bogart's Rick to shoot the Nazi character Major Heinrich Strasser
05:26without provocation.
05:27Apparently, even shooting a Nazi in cold blood was too immoral for 1942 audiences to handle.
05:33However, the filmmakers initially risked shooting the scene without having it signed off on first,
05:38and thus the entire thing had to be entirely reshot so that Strasser actually pulled out his gun
05:43before Rick shot him.
05:44So yeah, this preceded the whole Who shot first Star Wars saga by like several decades.
05:49Number four, Marilyn Monroe's famous The Seven Year Itch moment was hardly a breeze.
05:54Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate that's blowing up her dress is one of the most famous
05:59scenes in movie history. It's a scene you've seen even if you don't like movies. It's been recreated,
06:06re-shown and parodied more times than almost anything else in this industry. However, you might be
06:11surprised to know that the filming of this scene was absolutely not a breeze. According to a New York
06:16Times article, it was initially filmed on a real street in New York which attracted, of course,
06:20a large crowd of onlookers, which the studio was apparently hoping to use to drum up publicity.
06:26However, hundreds of them were men who responded to the sight of Marilyn's billowing dress by
06:30catcalling and shouting things from the sidelines. Their juvenile noise ruined every single take and
06:36the crew were forced to reshoot the entire scene on a Hollywood set a few days later.
06:41Number three, Harry Potter isn't 75. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
06:46After eight movies, the Harry Potter film series bowed out with an epilogue scene that showed our
06:51young heroes as mature parents with young kids of their own, ushering them off to Hogwarts just
06:56as they were a few decades prior. And just like that, every single person who grew up with these
07:02movies realised just how old they'd actually become. But apparently the epilogue also required a
07:07reshoot due to the crew going ridiculously overboard with the old people makeup. The original version
07:12of the scene had Daniel Radcliffe for instance in a grey wig. Apparently they thought future Harry
07:17was aged 75 instead of 37. And Rupert Grint told MTV that the heavy prosthetics he was under and fake
07:24belly they gave him initially made him look like a quote unquote monster Donald Trump. Upon viewing,
07:30everybody agreed that the scene just looked pretty awful and they came to the decision that only a
07:34few minor makeup effects and digital tweaks on each character would be enough to age them up
07:39appropriately. And hey, they were kinda right. Number two, Tobey Maguire is replaced from Life
07:44of Pi for being too famous. Though you may not have thought about it even one time since, Life of
07:48Pi
07:49was all anybody could talk about as it swooped the Oscars following its release in 2012. Now, there are
07:54many interesting behind the scenes stories that emerged during the making of this film, including a tiger
07:59nearly drowning, but none so baffling as the decision to fire Tobey Maguire and re-film all of his
08:06already completed scenes. The thing is, there was no scandal or anything like that to motivate this
08:11change. In fact, there wasn't much of a reason at all. Instead, director Ang Lee decided to reshoot
08:16Maguire's scenes because he felt that his fame was too distracting. Lee also said that he wanted the film
08:22to have an entirely international cast, and Maguire's replacement was the suitably lesser known but still
08:27awesome Ralph Spall. Even with all of this in mind though, the replacement of Maguire is still a
08:33little bit bizarre. Especially so considering that Lee and Maguire have a history that spans two movies
08:39before this. Number one, that infamous rooftop scene, The Room. You simply cannot make a list about
08:44cinematic ridiculousness without including this absurd creation from the madcap filmmaker Tommy Wiseau. A man
08:51who I have literally spoken to on the phone in real life, and is just as larger than life as
08:55you would
08:56expect. But that's my humble brag out the way, let's get on to the actual reasons why he's here.
09:01Well, the memorable rooftop scene in which young Denny is threatened by a drug dealer named Chris R.
09:06was originally filmed in an alleyway. As chronicled in the Disaster Artist book, Wiseau insisted that
09:12they shoot it again on a rooftop because he felt it would be quote-unquote more dramatic, bearing in mind
09:17that this scene had no relevance whatsoever on the overall plot. Even though re-filming the scene would cost
09:22over $80,000 that require all of the actors to be brought back with zero notice, Wiseau wasn't
09:28deterred and managed to fulfill his creative vision. And to be fair, even if it didn't succeed at first,
09:34The Room went on to become such a massive cult classic that those rooftop scenes became iconic in the process.
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