When Directors Go To The Absolute Extreme
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- When a director gets a bit too much creative freedom or budget. Sometimes, things can get a little out of hand. In this video we're gonna to take a look at the times when directors went to the absolute extreme in order to create groundbreaking cinema. I made a tier list of the most extreme directors of all time. From Stanley Kubrick's insane perfectionism to Coppola’s disastrous production of Apocalypse Now. And Christopher Nolan capturing a nuclear explosion for Oppenheimer. Sit back and relax, because what you’re about to witness is the literal peak of cinema.
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0:00 Most Extreme Directors of All Time
0:50 James Cameron
1:47 Christopher Nolan
5:04 Alfred Hitchcock
5:52 Francis Ford Coppola
7:32 Wes Anderson
8:32 Alejandro Jodorowsky
9:32 Quentin Tarantino
10:19 Lars von Trier
11:01 Elem Klimov (Come and See)
12:22 Stanley Kubrick
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Who would you add to the list? Write them down below!
Gualtiero jacopetti and Franco prosperi are definitely the craziest, most extreme directors. In goodbye uncle tom they went to Haiti made a deal with the dictator, to basically own slaves for the shoot, it’s really fucked up and inspired movies like cannibal holocaust.
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David Lynch
I'd add you using the decimal comma and thousands point in English as one of the biggest cases of a creative going to far.
New Clear Weapons Do Not Exist.
Nolan didn't use an actual nuke for Oppenheimer. It was TNT equivalent explosives, and on a much smaller scale than the actual Trinity test. He did get permission to light off some pretty big explosions out there in the Nevada desert, but nothing as big as the real thing, and especially not radioactive.
Legalize nuclear bombs
He right though by using actual explosions you can enhance that with cgi and keep it looking real.
@@lordfrz9339 Agreed. The practical effects are far more genuine.
I'm going to tell you something about "the real thing".
Explosions come from a chemical reaction. A matter turns into another that occupies a bigger volume and it explodes.
A nuclear reaction releases energy in the form of heat, light and radiation. Atoms are splitting. No volume expansion, no chock wave.
@@ravanjock Dude is kinda right tho, Nukes definitely do not have a "chock wave"
Legend has it, Chistopher Nolan built a literal time machine and recorded the bomb testings himself!
That checks out.
Don’t give him ideas man
and destroyed the time machine so that no one could do that again!
Honestly if someone told me Christopher Nolan did this, it wouldn't surprise me.
The guy is obsessed with time
What do you think how Tenet was made, and more importantly, why?
Loved the video, but I would include Tarkovsky in the list. He utilized 2 helicopters for a scene where wind blows in a field, he burned a wooden house twice because the first time it didn't burn for 8 minutes and 10 seconds, and his filming of Stalker caused him, his actor and his wife to contract lung cancer (of which he died 7 years later). The man is my favorite director, and he went real far to turn his visions a reality.
I agree, both as my favorite director and extreme methods. But, just to be clear, he had to burn down the house a second time at the end of The Sacrifice because the camera run out of film. And he shot Stalker twice because the original film was ruined in the laboratory while developing (Of course, he didn't know that would make him or the people around him sick, I'm pretty sure he would have found different locations, with less contamination). Tarkovski truly gave his life and soul to the art of cinema, but these stories are about his resiliance, not his perfectionism. Thanx!
@@pdzombie1906 My bad, thanks for the info tho! Yeah, his films always hit a very personal spot in me that I don't find anywhere else
He did, at the end and specifically stalker.
Came to the comment section specifically to mention Stalker and Tarkovsky!
@@joaquimqueiroz9714 Me too. I feel Stalker is like Tarkovski's 81/2; the stalker is his alter ego taking our reason (scientist) and our heart (writer) in a spiritual journey to discover ourseleves... What the russian director did his entire career!!!
Nolan took ' Camera man never dies ' to next level
You forgot one great director: Werner Herzog, and his masterpiece Fitzcarraldo.
Had to stick to 10 otherwise I would have definitely added him
Totally! I came here to write the same, I don’t really see anything about Tarantino in the theme of the video compared to Herzog, there’s even Burden of Dreams documentary to see explicitly what happen during the tortuous shooting of Fitzcarraldo
wasnt aguirre the wrath of god way better and way more troubled? i watched the first half of fitz and it just felt like aguirre but worse
I was coming to write the same. Easily replace Tarantino with Herzog, who easily be top 3. Sure there is Fitzcarralso, but many more. He learned to hypnotized himself the entire cast except for the actor playing the hero in Heart of glass. His documentaries are similarly code breaking approaches.
Just for working and "controlling" madman Klaus Kinski, he deserves to be on the list...
my nomination: Wong Kar Wai.
- Doesn't write scripts for his films
- Everyone on set discovers the possibilities of staging, acting, lighting, camera placement etc etc
- Could take his films in lots direction he wanted with the huge amounts of extra footage he shot, creates and fine-tunes the story he wants by cutting everything down in the editing room
- Finished editing his magnum opus, In the Mood for Love, right before Cannes
- Wins Palm d'Or from that film and Tony Leung wins best actor for his performance in that film
+ Christopher Doyle as a peak cinematographer. Great addition 🙏
@@DuCinema1 yessssss imo his style is somehow so chaotic yet so poetic at the same time
@@catgirlmutant 100%%
Feels like a green text
@@catgirlmutantdude’s films are also praised by Tarantino, takes a great to know another
It’s like the joke that Stanley Kubrick was selected to film the moon landings but was such a perfectionist that he insisted it be shot on location.
She wasn't acting, she was reacting 💀
These feats are incredible, but we shouldn't forget that there are a lot of horrible filmsets, stuck in production hell with awful directors that DON'T become masterpieces.
So we shouldn't look at Kubrick and go "He was good because he was an impossible perfectionist." We should say: "He's good because he's Kubrick. Because he has that eye, that mind, that dedication. The desire to be perfectionistic was an extension of that. Not the origin of his greatness."
Let's also not forget his final film took longer to shoot than The Dark Knight trilogy
Totally!!! Kubrick was a genius despite his madness, not because of it. Critics and public should stop romanticizing this!!
well put, sir.
Well said
EXACTLY. You don't need to give your crew literal Hell to create masterpieces
"Come and See" is the ultimate war movie. It's so horrifying most people don't finish it and those who do watch it only once. A lot of the cast and crew had combat experience, from WW2 to Afghanistan. They used live ammunition, real artillery shells and placed the actors as close to the action as possible. Some of them got PTSD from the experience.
Masterpiece. I don't think i have the strength to watch it again.
Shut up. " Most people never finish it" the movie is good but goddamn it's so overhyped online you guys are so lame for cockriding this movie so hard
Literally staged a war 💀
It's so horrifying that i didnt want to watch it only after reading descriprion and story.
Threads any one?
Sometimes the end doesnt justify the means. And how Stanley treated Shelley was despicable!
Exactly, I agree. He treated her horribly. What an ass.
Duvall said she likes him both as a director and person, learned a lot as well. Stanley Kubrick is the BEST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME, maybe not necessarily the best person, but the best director!
I did PA work a few times mostly to see how it would be and to help some friends out. Worked with a few of the biggest directors and I gotta say the younger generation has mostly thrown away all that BS passionate madman asshole artist archetype which I believe is a good thing. I've worked with an old gen commercial director who was at the top of the game and he tried to talk shit to me and get all in my face and I turned and walked a bit out of earshot in the middle of his bitching and told him to come over. I calmly looked him dead in the eyes and told him that, unlike the other crew, I have zero skin in this game, this is NOT my career and people like me should be the LAST people you talk shit to. I thought he was goin to yell at security to kick me out but he didn't say a word. he just turned around and started talking to 1st AD about the next shot. He left me alone after that and it was just the 1st and 2nd AD who resumed giving production orders (that's how it usually goes). He turned the shit talking onto the actors and set design for some fuckin reason the next day.
Like I understand that time is money, it's difficult to direct all this entire production and all these people, but to me, the whole film/tv/commercial production culture gets toxic when it absolutely doesnt have to be. That shitty behavior trickles down to where everybody becomes an asshole and people end up hating their jobs. but it's worth it bc you worked on this or that. Theres a never ending supply of production crew members in LA but I believe the ones that get called back the most are the ones that can handle the BS that goes with it. Bc believe me, I don't care if this is your career, the work done on most sets is pretty fuckin basic unless you have a uniquely creative role. I rigged, ran grip, put up sets, crafty, did sound and all kindsa shit with ZERO experience and got told I did a great job each time. I feel like it's 99% being able to handle the BS. other PAs and managers I worked with for two weeks would call me back because I'd try to make the shit fun while everybody else seemed like they had to be a depressed butthole to focus and work. Even got accused of being high because I was having a good time 😂.
Anyways, I doubt anybody read that but if you worked a bit in production you might know what I'm talking about.
@rks5457 I read it, but I have no idea what it's like to work in production movies, tv all that. Sounds super stressful.
I would nominate _Apollo 13_ for your list. Ron Howard wanted to show the zero-g environment with actual zero-g, not wires or lame tricks. Not being practical to film it in orbit, he built the set in an airplane that flies parabolic arcs to give 30 seconds of weightlessness at a time. The original plane that did this (for training) was nicknamed the "Vomit Comet", and that's stuck as a generic name for such flights.
I believe Alfonso Cuarón did an amazing job in Children Of Men. One of the last scenes was INSANE, with the tanks and all...
Yes. Honorable mentions should go to Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñarritu and Terry Gilliam. Lots of great directors, the terrible, madmen-cruel dictators of contemporary vistual arts.
Kurosawa - Shoots dozens of real arrows inches from the lead actor. They keep making movies together.
Herzog - think of every crazy story you've ever heard from his films. The time he ate his shoe. The time he jumped into a cactus patch. The time he hauled a real boat over a mountain and several people died. The time he got shot during an interview and continued the interview. He's an open book for all of it, but know there's an unreleased Herzog film where something so extreme happened that he refuses to talk about it and burned the footage.
The time Herzog had to speak french to communicate with some child soldiers that held him captive - and he regrets it (the speaking french part).
Sergei Bondarchuk needs a mention. He directed Waterloo (1970) which used no CGI at all and gives you an authentic look of the real battle. You also have to remember it was made in 1970. The Soviet Army also provided 17000 soldiers as extras dressed in historical uniforms for the movies. They used real horses and gunpowder+blanks to shoot.
Werner Herzog would look at most of these directors ambitions and say "pathetic" with that sweet german accent
Apocalypse Now is by far my favorite movie. Everything about it just feels so right. They might've gone through hell to film it, but they truly represented the hell of the Vietnam war very accurately.
Come and See really is actually the most hardcore, realistic war movie of the Eastern Front ever made. Like he said, all of the war scenes used live ammunition and it beats even Stalingrad (1993) for most accurate depiction of real world events in Russia.
That bit with Nolan made me laugh out loud. I deadass cannot believe he did not Cgi the explosions at all.
Sure he might have used a smaller scale explosive but still.
well, let's all wait till the film comes out and bang!!! nomination for best VFX
@Jurgen van Gestel obviously it's not a nuke but still choosing to film a real explosion(as small as it may be) rather then just using cgi is pretty crazy.
Won’t be nuclear, as there is ground/air burst treaty ban.
I think it’s a replica casing with TNT/NITRO ,overlaid real original test film.
Please. Michael Bay uses large scale explosives all the time and noone bats an eye. Nolan use a small grenade and suddenly people go all crazy.
@@estidi he dropped a plane from the sky and crashed a plane into a building.
And then he said "there were big logistical challenges"
What the FUCK are we expecting, a small grenade?
Imagine Nolan directing a world disaster movie 💀
Oh no pleas-
Interstellar
Nolan is that kind of guy that disregards VFX for being fake but still falls for TV commercials.
Still massively impressive what he did though.
A 13 year old boy who got traumatized through a movie
Where is Steven Spielberg, his creation of Jurassic park and Schindlers list at the same time is a a massive feat
David Lean used firefighter planes to drop literal tons of paint on dunes in the Sahara desert. They were reflecting the sun too much. He had a whole historical monastery painted pink. And that’s just for one film, Lawrence of Arabia. More of the same on the sets of Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter, etc.
Of course I’ll second nominating Herzog, Tarkowski and Keaton. But Lean is, I feel, slowly fading out of memory and I think that’s a pity.
my god you didn't mention the 1981 film Roar by Noah Marshall? pitting real lions against the actors is definitely insane enough to deserve a spot on this list
10 years it took for that madness to be filmed + disfiguring Melanie Griffith's face by her own mother who put her in that film as a child. Insane!
I can already hear him say, “CUTTT!! YOU CALL THIS A NUKE!? DO IT AGAIN PROPERLY!!”
But where is Werner Herzog
The guy who dragged a boat through Amazon forest in Fitzcarraldo
You should definitly make a sequel to this.
A director was literally using real bullets to make his movie more authentic and you put Kubrick over him? I’m gonna go on a limb and say that even Kubrick would’ve been like, “That’s too far man.”
Real bullets is just bullshit, it is unethical as a director to endanger the lives of your crew and talent: negligence doesn't equal madman production values, it equals go to prison when someone gets shot. 126 takes however, for just one scene, that is some extreme shit.
@@Brainbaskit 'if' someone gets shot. No one got shot so idk why you used 'when'
Yeah but the director literally fought against the Germans and witnessed the atrocities that both warring factions committed as a kid. You think he's going to hold back on a film to express his point to an audience. If youve seen come and see you'll understand, this isn't a Hollywood WW2 film. It's a Eastern European (Belarusian) psych horror film based in reality
I already know about what Jim Cameron did in filming Titanic by not telling his cast what he was going to do in a scene. In Titanic, he told them the water would be lukewarm and not to worry and just act shocked when the water hits them. But it wasn't lukewarm water it was freezing cold water to catch that realistic look of shock on Kate Winslet’s face and it paid off in that scene.
Your use of the thousands point and decimal comma in English in this video killed me more than Nolan's explosion would. Good job. Almost makes me forget that if I tried decimal points and thousands comma in French and German the governments of both countries would literally kill me even more. 👍
Your videos are so amazing that they always make me crave for your analysis of one of my favourite directors, Takeshi Kitano. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for this, and your examples were well-chosen.
Of the omissions, WERNER HERTZOG certainly has my vote and seems to be the one most frequently offered in the comments.
Another big omission is from the silent era. What about BUSTER KEATON? Most of his excesses were inflicted on himself. But the standout would be The General. Yes, David Lean also crashed a real locomotive. but that was under quite controlled conditions in the desert, with multiple cameras. Keaton did it first, off a bridge into a ravine with river below. He used one camera and there was no chance of a reshoot! In terms of OCD, he was up there with the best, but got there first. 🙂
Yes, I second to this. The whole story if Fitzgerald was crazy.
Aki Kaurismaki for his raw realism in people. For making them extremely poor, both emotionally and most of the times financially but somehow still make them happy. It's wonderful how he works with people nad that is why he works with the same cast over and over.
When I saw "more feet" on the tier list, I instantly knew Tarantino is gonna be on there lol
hahahaha his face at 2:00 when Christopher Nolan is showing him the plane crashing model
Okay the nuke had been detonated lets go home
Nolan : i missed the shot retake
Explosion expert : 💀💀💀
This was a good video! I very much enjoyed the humor in this as well!
"shoot i forgot to hit record"
love the editing on this, great work
....I'd watch a 14-hour adaptation of Dune in a heartbeat.
You have 14 hour long heartbeats?
Lmao this is a joke lol
@@veronicas19 I go into some _very_ deep meditation. lol.
Nolan's Dune: shoots the desert scenes in Namibia and builds life-sized animatronic sandworms for correct line-of-sight reactions from the actors...
This video is excellent! Loved the ranking and humor.
Nolan: "Let's drop a real nuke to make it as realistic as possible"
Kubrick:"Let's go to the Moon and shoot the hoax shots there to make it as realistic as possible. "
Great video, very respectful of the work of those incredible Directors
It’s really amazing to see how talented these directors are at bringing their vision to life no matter the obstacle.
Bro Nolan doesn't work with Warner bros anymore. He left after they messed up the release of tenet. He's with universal now. That's why openhemier is being released alongside barbie. It's a studio showdown. I enjoyed ur video though. I can understand the confusion though Nolan has been a household name for Warner bros. It's a shame they let him slip away.
3:50 GOT ME ROLLING
Akira Kurosawa may have been the greatest and most ballsy director ever
I love the little bits of comedy threw out your videos and the editing is amazing too.
I appreciate that!
Wow, such a great video. So entertaining start to finish, love the clips and narrator.
The camera man never dies
14 hour dune is crazy, imagine going back to the theater every night of the week to finish the movie. 😂😂😂 should of shot it on 15/70mm too for extra effect holy shit
This video at exactly 3:13 earned you a new subscriber, well done.🤣
WOW! What a great video. Honestly, it might be one of the best cinema-themed videos I have ever seen!
My favourite cinema channel on Yt so far. Keep it up bro!
Thank you so much man 👑🙏
8:47 imagine if this man's 14-hour Dune movie was made though
I'd also say about Howard Hughes with his Hells angels then. Like this guy was waiting for months just for the right clouds on the sky. He also created tricks on a plane to do and after the pilots said its impossible he went in the sky by himself proofing it's actually imposs. He spent more than 2 million, which made it the most expensive movie at that time, and also he was making that movie 3 years in total just because he also decided when the movie was done that it musnt be silent, so spent a year more to add sound and change the main actress because she was talking terribly
"proofing it's actually imposs" what happened, he couldn't do it either?
@@JohnDlugosz yeah
Mad respect for adding "Come and see" so many people don't appreciate it enough!
Very interesting video, new subscriber, a lot of these directors are really really detailed and precise almost to the point of dying
Great video and list. Just sad that Terry Gilliam was not included. Would love to see you cover his films! Cheers!!
3:10 The camera man!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH that got me laughing in tears. xDD
Love this list! Great list!!!
This literally made me cry, thank you. To give ourselves that much for art, what a weird little species we are. Weird, mad and beautiful.
"Oops, I forgot to record!" 💀
My favourite spot to finding interesting films i've never heard of.
Always so enjoyable to listen to
Also, loving the change of pace on this one, keep up the great work
Thank you so much awesome to hear that🙏🙏
Not putting WERNER HERZOG on this list is criminal. Not only for his whole work, but specifically for Burden of Dreams, which makes Heart of Darkness look like a walk in the park.
Damn, top notch as always. Every time I click on a video of yours, I never realise its from you, but then after I've watched a few minutes I realise I'm in for a treat. Keep up the great work!
Haha that's awesome, thank you 🙏🙏
11:57 bro went through the war and put his actors in the same position. That's some realism
Christopher Nolan knew the camera man couldn't die so he decided to go all out for the authenticity. Mad Respect.
*You already James Cameron going back to the Titanic to find the Titan 💀💀🤣🤣*
What a great and well done videos, I love all the details packed into this. You earned a subscribe from me!
Solid video mate. Meme game is on point too.
🙏👑
you're amazing as always, would love to see a part two or maybe even a series.
Actor: "My body is literally breaking down under pressure..."
Kubrick: "k"
Dayum this was a very very good Video!
So many other insane directors you missed my friend... Honestly almost all of the ones you put on the list are equally good and passionate about their work the are all GOATS ^^
Im just a movie enthusiast
I see a vid essay about movies i click
And i found this channel And i love all of it
Nice list. I haven't seen few movies which I forgot. Thanks
@3:04 Correction: Universal Studios let him use a nuke. Nolan left Warner Bros. a while back. Barbie is distributed by WB which makes me wonder if Barbie's release date was possibly WB's attempt to sabotage Oppenheimer's sales
nolan isnt nuts, he's just ahead of the curve
Cristopher Nolan probably used a Fuel Air Bomb. I have a feeling that the Air Force was more than happy to take part of the project, as they got to use one of their "special toys"
This is a weapon that has a similar visual explosive signature as a Nuke, just without the radioactive fallout.
In other words, a MOAB, a device that disperses it's fuel charge first with a small burst without flames, and then a second charge ignites the fuel when it has formed a cloud mixed with air. Mother Of All (conventional) Bombs is the colloquial term.
Great video buddy.🎉
Best tier list yet!
I adore Russian films. They are so gritty and grounded. And what they do with 20 million dollars looks like a 150 million dollar American movie but then with soul and emotion.
You missed Werner Herzog!
I watched come and see a few weeks ago with my dad.
We both spent the rest of the day largely in silence except to say wow and wtf and Holly... that scene where...
It definitely sticks with you.
Wong kar wai coming late to his own shooting it kinda badass
"This is either madness or brilliance"-W.T.
"It’s remarkable how often those two traits coincide."-Capt.J.S.
Vince Gilligan seriously needs a place on this list. He got a DEA chemist to teach Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul how to make methamphetamine just for the show
damn that's a good one
very well edited
Christopher Nolan’s gonna have to pull a “Legalize Nuclear Bombs” to make Oppenheimer.
I'm very glad still there are some people who understand real Cinema
I feel like putting Kubrick over everyone else (even though Kubrick's actions with Duvall aren't justified) I think he's a bit of a predictable pick. Hitchock did very similar things to his actors and Elem Klimov literally used real bullets around his actors. Not to mention directors like Ruggero Deodato or Pier Passolini. The Shelly thing is mentioned all the time and blown kind of out of proportion to the point where people claim with no actual evidence that she has ptsd from the experience, when she has gone on record to say that she hasn't. That only gets exasserbated when you see thousands of comments all saying the same thing about it too and it's just like beating a dead horse at this point.
Also, the only other reason he's the most extreme is because some people think he faked the moon landing and "knew too much" about secret societies. Please give me a break! He was certainly eccentric and perhaps a little crazy, but by far not the most extreme director, compared to others that are even on your list.
I love your videos man they're hilarious, keep on keepin!
"And for Interstaller...he ACTUALLY visited a Black Hole!" lmfaooo im done
Imagine you took all of these directors and let them cook you a movie togehter.
He wasn’t crazy of going on the Titan Submarine that time.
Having Tarantino on a list about pushing the limit and not mentioning Werner Herzhog?! If anything thats the most intense director that really takes it to the extreme. Tarantino merely brought the violence from asian cinema to the US. Hertzhog made Fittzgeraldo. And what about Kurrosawa? Not only did he shoot actual arrows at a wooden board attached to his main actors chest in Ran. Kurosawa also built all of mideval Edo and had his actors live in the built city for two years before filming Red Beard.
we have to remember Christopher Nolan sunk an entire destroyer to make Dunkirk, there he also, made a giant RC replica of a He-111, and crashed a spitfire model too