15 Genius Ways Films And TV Shows Fixed Their Own Mistakes

Filmmaking sure isn't easy at the best and most fortuitous of times, but when you're dealing with 200 million dollar tent poles that involve literally dozens of departments and hundreds of crafts folk that all need to be coordinated, it's inevitable that mistakes will be made. But a strong sign of a talented filmmaker is one who can think on their feet and pivot to fix a nagging issue, be it during shooting or once the film enters post-production. So, with that in mind, Marlon Brando was filmed in shadow to hide his weight, Apocalypse Now. But the already immensely problematic shoot was further complicated when Brando arrived to the set in less-than-ideal condition. Brando was roughly 40 pounds overweight, giving him a stocky build that was far away from the thin Kurtz envisioned in both the script and Heart of Darkness. Furthermore, Brando hadn't even read the script, so he didn't know his lines and argued with the director about the arc and the name of his character. Finally, they came to a compromise. To conceal his undulating gut, Brando would be dressed in slimming black clothes, shot primarily in shadow and filmed largely from the waist up, while a body double would be used to make him look taller. And to be honest, as disastrous as this sounds, it actually gave Kurtz a greater sense of mystery and intrigue, and no doubt contributed to the film's third act being as brilliantly surreal as it was. Look, movie fan to movie fan, we've all been there. Sat on the couch doing the scroll of doom, desperately trying to find something to watch until you think of something you you do want to watch, you put it in the search bar and nah, it's not there. And that's really annoying. Thankfully there are ways you can fix that exact issue, and now you can do so in a way that'll save you money too. 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While shooting a scene featuring Sarah Palmer, the face of a set dresser by the name of Frank Silver was accidentally visible in the mirror behind her. Lynch loved the eerie visual so much that he decided to just keep it. And better still, he gave Silver the role of what would eventually become the series' primary antagonist, the interdimensional entity known as Bob. Bob's legacy ended up enduring even past Silver's untimely death in 1995, with the character returning for Lynch's 2017 revival. And to think it was all because of a simple mistake. If Silver had just been standing somewhere else, perhaps Twin Peaks wouldn't be what it is today. Porgs were created after Puffins wouldn't leave the set, Star Wars The Last Jedi. The bug-eyed bird-like creatures known as Porgs seemed like they were always part of the plan for Star Wars by Disney in order to create some sort of massive cash grab in the form of merchandise and toys. But that turns out not to be the case, as the Porgs weren't actually conceived until shooting had started, and upon arrival at the Irish island of Skellig Michael to film the scene set on Luke's home planet, they discovered that the island was covered with puffins who quickly disrupted production. Moreover, Skellig Michael is a nature reserve, meaning that the animals cannot be moved, even temporarily. And so, rather than ask the VFX team to painstakingly remove the puffins from hundreds of shots, they just decided to simply incorporate an indigenous bird species into the final film. You'd never guess it from the final film, and for the mere shot of Chewie snacking on a porg, the hassle was all totally worth it. Kelsey Grammer's Flub turned into an ad-lib joke. Fraser. Fraser is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, no question. And though that is largely a result of the tack-sharp writing, what would the show be without the note-perfect performances of Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce? While shooting a scene for the season 11 episode A Man, A Plan and A Gal, Julia, Grammer flubbed one of his lines, referring to himself as the old fault-finding, floor-fleeing Fraser. But Pierce saved the take without missing a damn beat by smugly replying, you said Fraser, to the explosive laughter of the live studio audience, before the two then launched into a squabbling match as the scene ended. It was wonderful stuff. Between Grammar's botched line underlining just how flustered Fraser was here, and Niall's perfectly in-character retort, this was a most fortuitous gaffe that translated into easy TV hilarity. The malfunctioning shark prop was ditched for the sake of suspense, Jaws. Steven Spielberg's Jaws isn't just the quintessential Hollywood blockbuster, it's a tightly wound suspense masterpiece that remains virtually unrivaled over 40 years later. But things almost turned out very differently, and only due to a series of production setbacks did the film become what it is today. Originally, the shark was supposed to have a far more pervasive presence throughout the film, but the time-consuming maintenance and routine malfunctioning of the three shark props prompted Spielberg to change tack mid-shooting. With the sharks having to be drained of salt water and repainted every night, Spielberg had finally had enough. He later said, I had no choice but to figure out how to tell the story without the shark. So I just went back to Alfred Hitchcock. What would Hitchcock do in a situation like this? It's what we don't see, which is truly frightening. Spielberg opted instead to focus on both the human element and the art of implication, splicing together only scarce glimpses of the shark for most of the film, and it was all the better for it, creating a blueprint that Hollywood has been following for almost half a century through the exploration of the fear of the unknown. The hilarious explanation for the infamous uncut pizza, Breaking Bad One of Breaking Bad's most memorable moments isn't a shocking character death or a jaw-dropping plot twist But a scene early in season 3 where, after Skyler won't let Walter into their home He angrily hurls the pizza he's holding into the air, causing it to land on the roof Almost immediately after the episode aired, fans began discussing just how bizarre and hilarious the scene was noting how odd it was that the pizza came unsliced, because who in their life has ever ordered a pizza that looked like that? Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan eventually chimed in on the discussion, confirming that the pizza was left fully formed for entirely practical reasons, despite it making no sense whatsoever. He said, We had a long discussion before we shot the pizza on the roof scene about whether or not the pizza should be sliced, because as all you physicists know, a thrown sliced pizza would come apart due to centrifugal force Or angular momentum Or something like that And yeah, you're right No self-respecting pizza parlor sells an unsliced pizza But Gilligan brilliantly paid this off in the fourth season When Jesse, Badger and Skinny Pete receive a pizza order And of course the pizzas are unsliced Badger suggests that the pizza company does this to save money And pass the savings on to the customer Even trying to calculate the man hours saved in doing so Through a haze of weed smoke, naturally Gilligan added of the explanation We figured we needed to explain it, or else face our audience's righteous wrath. Rule one of screenwriting, folks. If you make a mistake, just make a joke out of it and you're all good. That's what I've been doing on videos for years. And season four's inconsistencies were caused by a gas leak community. Beloved community showrunner Dan Harmon was fired by NBC at the end of the show's third season, resulting in David Garascio and Moses Port being drafted in to write what would become an incredibly divisive fourth season. Season 4 received heavily mixed responses from critics and fans alike Noting character changes that seemed inconsistent with their established personalities And a more conventional sitcom-like narrative With increasingly outlandish plotlines that were often left unresolved Harmon himself said of the season It's very much like an impression and an unflattering one NBC replaced us with two guys who didn't know what they were getting into And then I think they tried their best But thankfully, NBC saw sense and rehired Harmon for the fifth season. Rather than simply trying to pick up the tattered pieces of season four, he decided to reset the table by hilariously having the characters comment on a gas leak that occurred on the campus and caused all the off-base events of that prior season. Now, it obviously didn't erase everything that happened, but it was at least a smart way to acknowledge the divisive events, while providing an in-universe explanation for all the dodgy writing too. Thankfully, Community returned to form for its final two seasons with Harmon, and now fans typically regard Season 4 as just a curious blip. Everyone just moved on with their lives. Different takes were literally spliced together, Star Wars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas' reliance on digital filmmaking techniques in the Star Wars prequels was largely reviled by his fans, and with damn good reason. But it did also allow Lucas a huge amount of versatility when it came to tinkering with scenes in post-production. Shooting almost every scene against a green screen allowed him to effectively insert any digital backdrop he wanted, and if Lucas realised the scene wasn't quite working in post, he could employ some cutting-edge wizardry to generate the drama he desired by literally splicing together different takes with subtle transitions. And by subtle, we mean blur wipes. He does love a good blur wipe. But for example, did you know that when Anakin is talking to Palpatine that these are two completely different takes? Well, maybe now you do because the tech was still a little bit rough around the edges at the time but still at the time audiences had absolutely no idea that these were two different takes pike's missing rank bars were added with cgi star trek discovery and the crew of star trek discovery were forced to fix an issue in post-production as while shooting early scenes for season two they forgot to include the cuffed rank bars on captain pike's iconic yellow uniform discovery's costume department was so accustomed to placing the ranks of the uss Discovery's crew members on their insignia badges, but they forgot the Enterprise's crew historically has cuffed rank bars. What are they like? After the marketing department picked up on it, the only viable option was to add the flair with CGI. The irony that a show so utterly slathered in costly visual effects had to add something so minor digitally is undeniable. Though at least the end result is entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. Oh, and if you are a lover of all things star trek then go and check out trek culture right now my friend because you are gonna have a good time thank you as well for checking out this list today and if you are enjoying what you're watching then hit that subscribe button down below and you'll get more of these what culture videos in your life hell of a deal if you ask me charlie's poor spelling became a running gag numbers hit crime drama series numbers revolves around fbi agent don epps and his math genius brother charlie who solve crimes together just because you're a whiz with numbers it does not mean you're totally on the ball with words as evidenced by Charlie blatantly misspelling the word anomaly as anomaly when writing it on a map in the show's pilot episode. Many fans picked up on this mistake and had a lot of fun mocking both Charlie and the crew prompting the show's writers to make Charlie's poor spelling a running gag over the course of the show. Memorably the season one finale featured an exchange between Don and Charlie about whether or not Charlie knows how to spell Anomaly. And later in the show's life, references were also made to him being a horrible speller. Poor Charlie. Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand and just kept acting Django Unchained. At this point, this scene has become something of a legendary tale in the creating of Django Unchained. The moment that Leonardo DiCaprio displayed just how much he wanted to win an Oscar when he smashed his hand down on the table so hard that he destroyed a glass and his hand in equal measure. And while in most circumstances this would necessitate a director to yell cut, ever the pro, Leo simply kept performing the rest of the lengthy take while bearing his bloodied hand to the camera. Quentin Tarantino was so impressed that rather than simply erase the gaff from the movie, he kept it in and even allowed DiCaprio to build upon it by wiping his bloody hand over the face of Django's wife. But of course, DiCaprio had his hand bandaged up first and the blood smeared on Kerry Washington's face was absolutely fake. Contrary to popular belief Nevertheless, a brilliantly savage movie moment was born out of a painful flub Netflix released a fixed version of a complained about scene Orange is the New Black And now for a most minor mistake that picked up an unexpected ton of traction on social media And consequently received the most peculiarly brilliant response from the show itself In a season 5 episode of Orange is the New Black Flakka and Maritza are filming a beauty tutorial vlog where Maritza explains that in prison she uses typical household spices to contour her face rather than the usual fancy department store products. Maritza name drops three spices, cinnamon, cumin, and sazon goya, but it's extremely obvious that she's actually pointing at sazon adobo, a totally different spice. Social media was naturally up in arms as ever, and less than two months later Netflix responded by posting a reshot version of the scene to Twitter with the correct spice in place. and a not-so-subtle wink at the audience from Flacker and Maritza. Considering that Netflix absolutely did not need to do this, this was a pretty neat way to make it up to those enraged fans seriously get a real problem, while also taking smart advantage of social media. Clumsy extra was kept in for dramatic reasons. MASH The season 3 finale of MASH concluded with the death of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, as announced by a traumatised Radar O'Reilly to the assembled OR surgeons. As Radar leaves the room, the camera pans across the surgeons in an unbroken take, as they're either frozen in shock and fighting back tears, or simply trying to focus on the patients they're operating on. But at the end of the shot, the noise of someone dropping a surgical item, rumoured to be a scalpel or a tray, can be heard. This was a genuine accident, presumably by an extra, and not written in the script, folks, but it was still kept in the episode due to its authenticity. After all, an off-screen surgeon dropping a tray in shock at learning of Blake's death just adds even more weight to one of the series' most unforgettable scenes, right? The cast and crew were only told about Stevenson's departure from the show mere moments before shooting the scene. James Franco's head injury was concealed with a headband, Pineapple Express. Have you ever wondered why James Franco is suddenly wearing a headband in the second half of Pineapple Express? Well, no, me neither, to be honest. but apparently this was less an aesthetic choice than it was a practical necessity. In an earlier sequence where Saul runs into a tree resulted in Franco accidentally running into a screw on the prop tree, cutting his head and requiring him to receive stitches. And in order to cover up the injury, Saul randomly acquires a headband. Simple, right? And because it fits with his character, audiences didn't even question it. The Tale of Two Beckys, Roseanne If you grew up in the 90s, there is a good chance you saw your fair share of Roseanne episodes. And you might even remember that the series faced a major issue when Lisey Goranson, who played the Connors' eldest daughter, Becky, decided she wanted to leave to complete a college degree at the end of the show's fifth season. The show's producers wrote Becky out, but ultimately decided that the character should return, and so recast Becky with future Scrubs star Sarah Chow taking over the part. But by season 8, Goranson was able to return, resulting in Chow being let go. However, because Goranson's college schedule often conflicted with filming, Chalk occasionally returned to fill in for her, resulting in an hilarious game of hot potato, with the role being shared between the two actresses. Mad. Now, in another show, this could have spelled out a major production problem, but countless wink-wink jokes were made about Becky's changing appearance during Season 8, before Chalk took over the role again for its ninth and initially final season. In the belated tenth season, Goranson returned to play Becky, while Schalke was brought in to play an entirely new character, with the show inevitably passing comment on their physical similarities to hilarious effect. Considering how much of a headache this must have been for the showrunners, making a big old joke out of it was clearly the smartest possible route without just writing Becky out entirely. First, we got an hilarious end credit send-up out of the whole mess too. Brilliant.