just like diamonds some of the best
movies can come out of extreme pressure
hey guys it's Phoebe with WatchMojo
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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