Movie bloopers are a lot of fun, plain and simple.
Film fans love to watch actors flub.
And considering the way they make themselves and their co-stars laugh when it happens,
actors clearly love bloopers too.
Filmmakers, on the other hand, may not love them quite as much.
Every time an actor makes a mistake, it delays the shoot just a little, and time is money.
And every so often, they're forced to deal with a truly world-class mess-up — a mistake
that costs the production big money due to property damage and personal injury.
Seven
Brad Pitt suffered a nasty injury on the set of Seven.
During one scene that called for him to chase his suspect in the rain, he slipped and smashed
his hand into a windshield, severing a tendon.
Director David Fincher mentions on the film's DVD commentary that Pitt showed him his wound,
which was so severe he could see the white of the bone.
Making the best of a bad situation, Fincher managed to incorporate Pitt's injury into
the story of Seven by having the script rewritten to have Pitt's character suffer an injury
in the line of duty.
It added time and expense to the production schedule.
But it was probably a lot cheaper to explain why one of the film's main characters was
suddenly wearing a cast than simply delaying shooting long enough for Pitt to recover.
Still, it didn't solve the problem completely: like most movies, Seven was shot out of sequence,
so any earlier scene filmed after Pitt's injury required the actor to hold his bad hand in
his pocket or behind his back.
Skyfall
According to writer and filmmaker Charlie Lyne, the 2012 James Bond adventure Skyfall
had to deal with some unplanned expenses because star Daniel Craig wore a pair of leather gloves
at the wrong moment.
As Lyne told the story via Twitter, which he heard from someone who worked on the film,
Craig asked director Sam Mendes if he could wear a pair of leather gloves in a particular
scene.
Mendes agreed, and the cast and crew got down to work filming a sequence in which a bad
guy gets Bond's gun away from him, only to find he can't fire it because it has a fingerprint
scanner — it will only work for Bond.
"There's a microdermal sensor in the grip.
It's been coded to your palmprint so only you can fire it."
Months later in the editing bay, a production assistant noticed a problem:
"Then how is Bond ever going to fire it wearing gloves?
And so silence falls across the room."
After considering the costs of reshooting the scene, the filmmakers decided it would
be cheaper — although still quite expensive — to digitally remove the gloves from Craig's
hands for the entire sequence.
"If you watch the scene now, honest to god, you can see that Bond has these ridiculously
pudgy hands.
He has these, like, Mr. Blobby hands.
Because in every single frame, he's wearing these thick leather gloves that have been
painted over with Craig-toned hands.
The Hateful Eight
To play the crafty outlaw Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, Jennifer
Jason Leigh had to learn how to play the guitar.
The lucky actress got to learn on the same one she'd strum in the film: a vintage Martin
guitar dating to the 19th century, loaned to the movie by the Martin Guitar Museum.
Leigh's big guitar-playing moment on screen was all planned out: while she was playing,
co-star Kurt Russell was supposed to grab it.
The scene would cut and the Martin would be traded out for a cheaper prop guitar, which
Russell would smash when the cameras started to roll again.
But that isn't what happened — instead, Russell grabbed the real Martin from Leigh
and smashed it.
"Gimme that guitar."
"Music time's over!"
Leigh later told Billboard, "Kurt felt terrible; he had no idea."
Justice League
Sometimes it's not the actor who goofs up, it's the studio responsible for the movie
— and then they have to fork out the cash to make things right.
Warner Bros. had to reassemble the cast of Justice League in the summer of 2017 for some
crucial reshoots.
Henry Cavill, who plays Superman, was among those summoned, but there was a problem: He'd
grown a mustache for his next role, in the sixth Mission: Impossible movie, and was contractually
obliged to keep it until M:I 6 was finished filming.
The facial hair scheduling snafu left Justice League's visual effects technicians with the
job of digitally removing Superman's mustache.
Effects expert Dave Fleet told Business Insider it could cost millions: "We would need to
build a 3D model of the face and then shade the surface of the skin to look realistic.
We would then need to track the 3D model to the movement of his head and potentially re-animate
his mouth."
"That mustache has got to go!
It makes you look like a total geek…
It makes you look like a total geek…"
The Avengers
Marvel's superhero team isn't the only Avengers in pop culture.
There's also The Avengers, a 1960s British spy TV series.
The 1998 film adaptation starring Ralph Fiennesand Uma Thurman was a critical and commercial
bomb, but the movie made headlines for another type of detonation.
While the crew filmed an explosion for the movie, a few rogue sparks drifted away and
hit the roof of the studio, starting a fire that was definitely not part of the plan.
A set worth a reported $1.6 million was destroyed, along with the hopes of any sequel.
"Never trust the weather, Sir August."
"Rain or shine, all is mine!"
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