Some famous directors sometimes take advantage of their own fame and power. Even though most of them filmed masterpieces, there is no excuse. You can’t be cruel to anyone. Results are not always the most important thing!
When it comes to filmmaking, we must take this into account as there are too many people involved in the same project, investing their time, and putting all their effort to pull it off. Here, we are going to share some strange filmmaking methods of famous directors.
Kurosawa
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One of the most perfectionist directors of all times. If you’ve seen something of him, you’ll get what I am talking about. Each frame of his movies looks as if it would be taken from a painting. Of course, this has something to do with his culture, his Japanese, nothing like Japanese perfection.
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Only some people that had the chance to work with him can assure this, but, it has been said that he uses strange techniques when it comes to directing. In his movie “Throne of Blood” it is said that he used real archers and arrows that hurt the main actor in his deadly scene.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The number one master of suspense. He did historic films such as “Rare Window”, “The rope” and “Psycho”. He didn’t have the best relationship with his movie’s actors. He treated them like cattle.
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He didn’t mind if the actor was the one on fashion in the moment. He treated them as if they were just a small part of his big masterpiece when sometimes, it is the other way around. Actors are a huge part of the movie! However, it is Alfred Hitchcock… the only thing I’m against off, is the bad treatment, his talent is something we can’t argue or deny.
Cecil B. DeMille
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He has weird expectations of his actors sometimes. For example, he asked the cast of “The King of kings” to do anything “unbiblical” for five years.
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Can you believe that he got a little bit too upset when the actor Victor Mature told him he didn’t want to wrestle a real lion in one of his movies? I mean, c’mon! To what point does the price of fame gets?
Lars Von Trier
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One of the most unusual filmmakers in ages. He sometimes asks his actors to stay in character for hours during the shooting. This was something that exhausted “Dogville’s” cast.
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He has some undoubtedly obsessions. This shows in “Dancing in the Dark” which was shot with over 100 digital cameras.
Stanley Kubrick
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Another meticulous director. I mean, this is something you easily get after watching some of his movies. For example, did you know that he did 127 takes for one scene?
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Kubrick also wanted to film a scene with a candle just using natural light. Therefore, he bought the NASA a special lens that could be brighter and had a widest aperture, OMG! Can you imagine how much could that lens cost?
David Lynch
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Even though he looks perfectly normal in the picture; we all know he has a weird way of storytelling!
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Not only because of his surrealistic perspective but also in the feelings he can generate in a normal spectator.
William Friedkin
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He didn’t just scary the people that watched his movies. He also, scared his own crew to create a scary shooting environment. It is said that he even shot a real gun so that the cast was scared.
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People also said that his set was coursed as some accidents happened to his actors. He had to even call a priest to bless the place. William had a violent approach to the priest of one of his movies just to cause a genuine reaction. This is when I say, how far can a director take it? it is too much for me…
Quentin Tarantino
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He has a whole different ritual when it comes to writing his scripts. As you imagine, most filmmakers right their long scripts on the computer or with a typewriter. However, Tarantino decides to handwrite it.
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He says that everything that can’t be written with your hands Is not necessary. He declared being a little bit superstitious with this. “This, is how I started, so it is the way it should get done” – he declared.
Christopher Nolan
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One of the most famous directors in the 21st century. He directed great movies such as Inception and Dunkirk. Even though he keeps himself being pretty classic in movies, he has some strange ways of organizing his filming set.
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He doesn’t like to have unnecessary chairs. This is to have the actors on her feet most of the time without letting them get off character. Another strange thing he has is that he hates having water bottles on set, they are like toys to him that helps distracting the crew.
Wes Anderson
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Apart from his obsession with symmetry and patterns and tidiness he also tried something not that common when he had to ask Fiennes to be part of “The grand Budapest Hotel”.
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He received an email from Wes asking him which part he preferred. Anderson thinks that the best way to get an actor to be in your film is everything but not offering a specific part. They start doubting and always preferring everybody else’s parts.
