Top 10 Insane Ways Movies Tried to Save Money

just like diamonds some of the best

movies can come out of extreme pressure

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today we're counting down our picks for

the top 10 insane ways movies tried to

save money the Americans of fools I

offered my services they refused said it

the East now they can both pay for their

mistake we're taking a look at movies

where directors were forced to deal with

a low budget and reduced costs let's get

to it

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number ten taking from an existing TV

show

psycho well a boy's best friend is his

mother a trip to the Bates Motel saw

visitors disappear left and right in the

Alfred Hitchcock classic psycho

Hitchcock was left to finance the film

himself and shoot back at Universal

where he also made Alfred Hitchcock

Presents for TV and an effort to keep

costs low

he recycled much of that show's

production crew and reportedly

approached the movie like an episode I

was just a plain simple babysitting huh

look at me now Hitchcock additionally

took an upfront cut on paid to get

Paramount to distribute the film and

instead opted for a larger part of the

back-end profits even the choice to film

in black and white was itself done in

part to trim expenses but given the

millions that psycho earned at the box

office

Hitchcock made all the right moves I

hope they are watching that see they see

and they don't know and they'll say she

wouldn't even have a number 9 cheap sets

doctor no look James Bond's first

official film outing took him into the

surprisingly charming lair of the evil

doctor no but as the Bond franchise was

still new only 1% of its already meager

1 million dollar budget was allocated to

sets nose rooms still appeared stylish

due to production designer Ken Adam who

mixed in cheap vintage pieces to create

an eclectic aesthetic Adam was also

tasked with copying a stolen Goya

painting for know to possess just to

enhance the villains aura of power

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stock footage of tiny fish was magnified

to save money which was itself written

in as a display of nose unusual persona

you were wondering what so given that

later Bond films received huge budgets

for set pieces alone dr. nose smooth

look was an impressive achievement

that's how you pronounce this operation

number eight improvised makeup Dallas

buyers club this movie's funding was

slashed right before filming started

leaving just a few hundred or so dollars

to transform Matthew McConaughey and

Jared Leto into ill patients you've

tested positive for HIV which is the

virus that causes AIDS makeup had Robin

Matthews claimed bones and veins had to

be highlighted repeatedly in place of

prosthetics rashes were created with

grits and other foods to drive costs

down more and those were reportedly

donated by Matthew's mother embryo the

situation was dire enough that a

producer reportedly pitched in their own

money to feed crew members Matthew's

hard work paid off however as Dallas

buyers club won the makeup Oscar that

same year I mean god damn people are

dying and y'all up there free we're

gonna find an alternative with that

number seven no extras rocky in the

midst of rocky Balboa's journey to

become a famous boxer he asked Adrian

out on a date no I think maybe just

earlier something like that initially

the scene was set to occur in either a

restaurant or an ice rink packed with

skaters but as the large amount of

extras proved to be an expensive choice

it was suggested to set the moment after

hours with rocky and Adrian alone the

camera focused on them for an intimate

conversation I asked you a question

absolutely why do you want to fight

because I can't sing good dance Rocky's

access to the closed rink also helped

him appear more dedicated to impressing

Adrian

the decision solidified their

relationship so that it was all the more

emotional as rocky called her in for the

finale

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number six crashing on the producers

couch the purge this is not a test this

is your emergency broadcast system

announcing the commencement of the

annual purge sanctioned by the US

government the home invasion terror of

the purge was touch-and-go in the

financing department but producer Jason

Blum secured interest in a low-budget

approach to the story and filmed it in a

house rather than the streets Ethan

Hawke and crew members were asked to

waive larger paychecks and instead opted

for part of the profits because it works

you don't remember how bad it was

Charley the poverty all the crime

this night saved our country Hawk also

skipped on accommodations and slept on

his friend Blum sofa to reduce the cost

of production the home setting put the

danger in a place that viewers

understood and grounded a high-concept

plot five films and a TV show later

plums early penny-pinching has allowed

the purge to get more ambitious

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number five the entire production

monsters Gareth Edwards monsters took

viewers down a desolate Mexico filled

with infectious aliens but less than

five hundred thousand dollars was

allocated to achieve this futuristic

vision this forced director Gareth

Edwards to use mostly consumer-level

equipment and editing software which

reportedly costs only about fifteen

thousand dollars if you ask me this

looks like an airstrike random locals

were recruited as extras while the crew

was just four people

Edwards even ended up serving as the

cinematographer and production designer

while he added all the visual effects

himself on a laptop

despite the meager resources monsters

still looked way better than movies with

ten times the budget number for changing

up the chase Jurassic Park a t-rex

chases down a car of patrons after a

dinosaur theme park has its beast set

loose the moment wasn't originally in

Jurassic Park as the book actually saw

the protagonists fleeing the wrecks in a

raft though the seamless storyboarded

and reportedly partially filmed it was

cut due to the very large costs it would

have incurred come on we gotta get out

of here and even money aside it was also

unclear how a rafting chase with a

massive dinosaur would have looked with

their special effects this led to

adapting the scene with a Jeep which has

helped Jurassic Park hold up visually

throughout the years

number three recycling footage Star Trek

- the Wrath of Khan three years on from

their first film outing the crew of the

USS Enterprise were pitted against an

intergalactic villain from but the Wrath

of Khan was a sequel with a reduced

budget so the crew the film crew that is

was forced to cut corners wherever they

could the set of Khan's USS reliant was

recycled from the enterprise much like

several space stations and miniatures

were reused from Star Trek the motion

picture costumes were too costly to

throw out so many were either died or

trimmed to look new worst of all was the

docking sequence which essentially just

re-edited shots directly from the first

film though Wrath of Khan was celebrated

it was a testament to the strong designs

of the original movie number two

replacing characters before filming

Deadpool Wade Wilson was dying from

cancer when an experiment turned him

into an invincible but unhinged mutant

okay let's pro/con this superhero thing

this x-men spin-off was already facing

minimal financing but it faced

additional million-dollar cuts right

before it was greenlight do this feel

fashioned way to swords and maximum

effort the reduced cash meant that

preferred characters like garrison cane

and wire were unable to be featured

defeated by the budget an otherwise

strange cast of characters did allow for

plenty of meta jokes which was classic

Deadpool humor and negasonic teenage

warhead

negasonic teenage that's the coolest

name ever and the lack of funds for a

massive gun fight finale was salvaged by

making fun of Wade's own stupidity so by

playing this self-aware voice of their

own source material Deadpool turned

major setbacks into opportunities wait

out here okay it's a big house it's

funny that I only ever see two of you

it's

almost like the studio couldn't afford

another x-man

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without permission the Terminator a

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time-traveling robot assassin sounded

like a low-budget movie plot so director

James Cameron was given the funds to

match for the Terminator luckily Cameron

had learned tricks from his previous

cheap films so he decided to avoid

paying for film permits this prompted a

lot of nighttime filming to avoid

detection mercury vapors streetlights

were sought out by the crew to reduce

electrical costs for the moonlight

shoots Cameron actually had to lie about

studying at UCLA when a cop busted him

and another scene had Arnold

Schwarzenegger punch in a real car

window just to get a shot all the

workarounds gave the Terminator a dark

and gritty look which stays terrifying

all these years later what did he just

say he said there's a storm coming

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