When Directors Go To The Absolute Extreme

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.

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

The Magnetic Buzz - Spaghetti Duel
Adrián Berenguer - The Walking
Chopin - Nocturne op.9 No.2
Herms Niel - Erika
Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz
Maya Belsitzman - The Day After Tomorrow
Oran Loyfer - Leaving Home
Charlie Ryan - Tiki Panjandrum's Worse Nightmare
Mozart - Piano Sonata no. 11, K. 331 - III. Alla Turca
Balance Beta - Mirage
GTA San Andreas Theme
Vivaldi - Four Seasons Spring
Mozart - Lacrimosa
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss
Stephen Keech - Grand Design

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#oppenheimer #christophernolan #stanleykubrick

[DuCinema]

Who would you add to the list? Write them down below!

[nkolodian]

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.

[bernie_san]

Legend has it, Chistopher Nolan built a literal time machine and recorded the bomb testings himself!

[joaquimqueiroz]

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.

[justahuman]

Nolan took ' Camera man never dies ' to next level

[thesunflowerdreamer]

You forgot one great director: Werner Herzog, and his masterpiece Fitzcarraldo.

[catgirlmutant]

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

[Baker_king]

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.

[RedNctar]

Sometimes the end doesnt justify the means. And how Stanley treated Shelley was despicable!

[Kat_RS_]

She wasn't acting, she was reacting 💀

[JohnDlugosz]

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.

[PedroBarbosa-huqw]

Werner Herzog would look at most of these directors ambitions and say "pathetic" with that sweet german accent

[robbiedubbelman]

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."

[Gearparadummies]

"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.

[kickass]

I believe Alfonso Cuarón did an amazing job in Children Of Men. One of the last scenes was INSANE, with the tanks and all...

[thegrandaviator]

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.

[YaBoiDoi]

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.

[grimsyx]

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.

[igxniisan]

I can already hear him say, “CUTTT!! YOU CALL THIS A NUKE!? DO IT AGAIN PROPERLY!!”

[jebbroham]

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.