glorious though they may have appeared
on screen these cinematic moments pushed
their crews to the brink welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 awesome
scenes that were production nightmares
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at those unforgettable scenes
that tested their filmmakers mettle
through logistical challenges emotional
torment and/or physical danger some of
these scenes are crucial to their plots
so the spoiler alert is now in full
effect number 10 corridor fight old boy
a peaceful deliver this brutal fight
scene doesn’t cut once making you feel
every bit as tired as day suit after
escaping from his 15 year imprisonment
day Sue’s quest for revenge involves
speeding up a whole lot of goons as our
protagonist fights a mob through a
hallway we get to take it all in from a
stunning side-scrolling perspective
since it’s a tracking shot involving
extensive fight choreography this scene
was understandably exhausting to capture
it was filmed over the course of three
days requiring 17 takes just to get
everything they wanted into the shot
over a decade later however it continues
to inspire shows like daredevil proving
that the iconic fight was worth the
struggle
number nine church brawl Kings meant the
Secret Service after a murderous signal
goes off in a church an entire
congregation falls into unholy violence
and the extended roughly four-minute
brawl that follows reportedly put the
stunt crew through hell in all the shoot
ran over seven days with another week of
prep during which time the team had to
coordinate over 100 stuntmen and extras
probably what the heck is going on
meticulously planned to keep the
momentum going the scene is visceral and
jarring plus it looks like one take
since most of the cuts are hidden in the
mayhem Colin Firth even did most of the
fighting himself learning his
choreography as one would dance in order
to avoid employing what would have been
a rather obvious stunt double
number eight cavern of bugs Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom realize
different fortune cookies it’s not
fortune cookies upping the ante from
snakes Steven Spielberg opted to
subjected stars to bugs in this sequel
as Indian shortround
enter a dark tunnel they hear a lot of
crunching under their feet
finding countless bugs lining the floor
and the walls they turned to Willy to
save them
spoo burg was clearly committed to
freaking people out because he
reportedly ordered 80,000 in sex and
sure enough he managed to utterly
disgust his cast Kate Capshaw allegedly
admitted to needing some help in the
form of valium to get through her scenes
and with all those bugs poured on her
we’re betting her screams were as real
as the audience’s I did take something
that was like a relaxant and I came to
the set I was like hi Steven because hi
he said we’re good to the bugs okay
number seven Quicksilver mansion rescue
x-men apocalypse
he caught our attention with a slo-mo
sequence in the first x-men outing and
in the sequel Quicksilver returned to
rescue a whole mansion of students and
this time around
filmmakers went all-out with the effects
in fact according to director Bryan
Singer the three-minute scene ate up a
month and a half of filming time phantom
cameras were sent hurtling along tracks
at up to 90 miles an hour capturing over
3,000 frames per second
considering how many slow and fast
moving parts were involved the slow-mo
scene could only have been achieved
through a complex blend of practical and
CGI effects but by turning mere seconds
within the film into a minutes long
feast for the eyes the sequence blew
audiences away number 6 hospital
gunfight hard-boiled as they fight
gangsters in a hospital Alan and
yet–and fly through this exhausting
multi floor shootout filming in a
hospital set for 40 days John woos crew
reportedly ran themselves ragged often
staying on set for days at a time
looking to speed up production when
exhaustion set in who decided to
condense the final lengthy action
sequence into this now iconic tracking
shot in fact – a title though it proved
quicker to film it also involved serious
coordination during filming when the duo
pops into the elevator that 20-second
window was used by the crew to reset the
stage to look like a different floor
without ever cutting working against the
clock Wu and company created a
masterpiece of cinematic gunplay
number five eating raw bison the
revenant suffering for his art Leonardo
DiCaprio was willing to go as far as
Alejandro Inarritu asked he repeatedly
subjected his body to frigid cold waters
learned not one but two indigenous
languages and consumed a nearly
impossible to swallow meal recreating
you glasses struggled to survive the
scene called for him to eat bison liver
wrong Leo is dissatisfied with the prop
however so we offered to consume the
real thing in the name of realism
despite reportedly being a vegetarian of
course an entire legal team had to sign
off before it could be shot a whole
bunch of paper and plenty of gagging
later we got this truly stomach churning
moment in cinematic history
number four a boat up a hill
Fitzcarraldo amigos engine is running in
this shocking story based on real-life
events an infamous rubber Baron goes
insane moving a boat over a mountain and
despite the obvious irony of his actions
director Verner Hertzog opted to
recreate the beat himself one upping the
piece-by-piece transportation process of
the original 30 ton bow however
Hertzog’s over 300 ton behemoth was
moved in one piece deciding against
models or special effects Hertog
employed over 1,000 native extras to
help drag the steamship remarkably only
six crew members were injured the
resulting film is a testament to realism
in cinema as well as human determination
or stubbornness as a result Hertzog
earned plenty of comparisons to his
protagonists and reportedly dubbed
himself the conquistador of the useless
[Music]
number three masked issues Waterworld
you’ll never make it video sales down
while filming this aquatic
post-apocalyptic action flick director
Kevin Reynolds quickly saw his set
turned into a real disaster as you
probably know water world’s production
has since gone down as one of the most
troubled in Hollywood history as it was
fraught with accidents and ridiculous
expenses but even by the film’s own
standards this scene was catastrophic
Kevin Costner was strapped to the
40-foot mast of a boat in extremely
windy conditions
the camera shot from the perspective of
a helicopter which Costner told
Entertainment Weekly was way too close
for comfort though they got the shot it
nearly came at a very high cost the
vessel was blown beyond reach for 30
minutes with Kevin still helplessly
strung up number two car ambush children
of men in this dystopian thriller a
loving moment quickly turns into chaos
when the party gets ambushed director
Alfonso Cuaron wanted to avoid the use
of green screens at all costs but was
determined to realize this long take
sequence so he built a drivable film rig
that allowed the camera to move around
the car ceiling to film the actors while
a driver actually handled the car
even with his tech however the 12 days
of shooting were plagued with errors and
delays
[Music]
on the final day of filming blood
splatter actually hit the lens while a
less open-minded team may have cut
thankfully the crew didn’t hear Harlan’s
direction and kept rolling with the
resulting footage making for one
seriously intense long take before we
unveil our topic here are a few
honorable mentions
and I get devil now kindly until they
stretch if you’re the devil one I’ll
make the straps disappear
number one Shelley Duvall’s breakdown
the shining four showed the ball-playing
Wendy torrents was more living nightmare
than horror film shoot during her 500
day film shoot Duvall became ill
multiple times and there’s little
question as to why in addition to
tearing into Duvall repeatedly onset
Stanley Kubrick reportedly asked the
crew not to sympathize with her in order
to put her further into the characters
mindset of isolation I don’t sympathize
with Shelley there was no shortage of
draining moments to film but even so the
baseball bat scene stands out as
particularly harrowing Duvall was
reportedly forced to deliver the
emotionally demanding scene a whopping
127 times by the end she was reportedly
losing her hair she do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
on screen these cinematic moments pushed
their crews to the brink welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 awesome
scenes that were production nightmares
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at those unforgettable scenes
that tested their filmmakers mettle
through logistical challenges emotional
torment and/or physical danger some of
these scenes are crucial to their plots
so the spoiler alert is now in full
effect number 10 corridor fight old boy
a peaceful deliver this brutal fight
scene doesn’t cut once making you feel
every bit as tired as day suit after
escaping from his 15 year imprisonment
day Sue’s quest for revenge involves
speeding up a whole lot of goons as our
protagonist fights a mob through a
hallway we get to take it all in from a
stunning side-scrolling perspective
since it’s a tracking shot involving
extensive fight choreography this scene
was understandably exhausting to capture
it was filmed over the course of three
days requiring 17 takes just to get
everything they wanted into the shot
over a decade later however it continues
to inspire shows like daredevil proving
that the iconic fight was worth the
struggle
number nine church brawl Kings meant the
Secret Service after a murderous signal
goes off in a church an entire
congregation falls into unholy violence
and the extended roughly four-minute
brawl that follows reportedly put the
stunt crew through hell in all the shoot
ran over seven days with another week of
prep during which time the team had to
coordinate over 100 stuntmen and extras
probably what the heck is going on
meticulously planned to keep the
momentum going the scene is visceral and
jarring plus it looks like one take
since most of the cuts are hidden in the
mayhem Colin Firth even did most of the
fighting himself learning his
choreography as one would dance in order
to avoid employing what would have been
a rather obvious stunt double
number eight cavern of bugs Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom realize
different fortune cookies it’s not
fortune cookies upping the ante from
snakes Steven Spielberg opted to
subjected stars to bugs in this sequel
as Indian shortround
enter a dark tunnel they hear a lot of
crunching under their feet
finding countless bugs lining the floor
and the walls they turned to Willy to
save them
spoo burg was clearly committed to
freaking people out because he
reportedly ordered 80,000 in sex and
sure enough he managed to utterly
disgust his cast Kate Capshaw allegedly
admitted to needing some help in the
form of valium to get through her scenes
and with all those bugs poured on her
we’re betting her screams were as real
as the audience’s I did take something
that was like a relaxant and I came to
the set I was like hi Steven because hi
he said we’re good to the bugs okay
number seven Quicksilver mansion rescue
x-men apocalypse
he caught our attention with a slo-mo
sequence in the first x-men outing and
in the sequel Quicksilver returned to
rescue a whole mansion of students and
this time around
filmmakers went all-out with the effects
in fact according to director Bryan
Singer the three-minute scene ate up a
month and a half of filming time phantom
cameras were sent hurtling along tracks
at up to 90 miles an hour capturing over
3,000 frames per second
considering how many slow and fast
moving parts were involved the slow-mo
scene could only have been achieved
through a complex blend of practical and
CGI effects but by turning mere seconds
within the film into a minutes long
feast for the eyes the sequence blew
audiences away number 6 hospital
gunfight hard-boiled as they fight
gangsters in a hospital Alan and
yet–and fly through this exhausting
multi floor shootout filming in a
hospital set for 40 days John woos crew
reportedly ran themselves ragged often
staying on set for days at a time
looking to speed up production when
exhaustion set in who decided to
condense the final lengthy action
sequence into this now iconic tracking
shot in fact – a title though it proved
quicker to film it also involved serious
coordination during filming when the duo
pops into the elevator that 20-second
window was used by the crew to reset the
stage to look like a different floor
without ever cutting working against the
clock Wu and company created a
masterpiece of cinematic gunplay
number five eating raw bison the
revenant suffering for his art Leonardo
DiCaprio was willing to go as far as
Alejandro Inarritu asked he repeatedly
subjected his body to frigid cold waters
learned not one but two indigenous
languages and consumed a nearly
impossible to swallow meal recreating
you glasses struggled to survive the
scene called for him to eat bison liver
wrong Leo is dissatisfied with the prop
however so we offered to consume the
real thing in the name of realism
despite reportedly being a vegetarian of
course an entire legal team had to sign
off before it could be shot a whole
bunch of paper and plenty of gagging
later we got this truly stomach churning
moment in cinematic history
number four a boat up a hill
Fitzcarraldo amigos engine is running in
this shocking story based on real-life
events an infamous rubber Baron goes
insane moving a boat over a mountain and
despite the obvious irony of his actions
director Verner Hertzog opted to
recreate the beat himself one upping the
piece-by-piece transportation process of
the original 30 ton bow however
Hertzog’s over 300 ton behemoth was
moved in one piece deciding against
models or special effects Hertog
employed over 1,000 native extras to
help drag the steamship remarkably only
six crew members were injured the
resulting film is a testament to realism
in cinema as well as human determination
or stubbornness as a result Hertzog
earned plenty of comparisons to his
protagonists and reportedly dubbed
himself the conquistador of the useless
[Music]
number three masked issues Waterworld
you’ll never make it video sales down
while filming this aquatic
post-apocalyptic action flick director
Kevin Reynolds quickly saw his set
turned into a real disaster as you
probably know water world’s production
has since gone down as one of the most
troubled in Hollywood history as it was
fraught with accidents and ridiculous
expenses but even by the film’s own
standards this scene was catastrophic
Kevin Costner was strapped to the
40-foot mast of a boat in extremely
windy conditions
the camera shot from the perspective of
a helicopter which Costner told
Entertainment Weekly was way too close
for comfort though they got the shot it
nearly came at a very high cost the
vessel was blown beyond reach for 30
minutes with Kevin still helplessly
strung up number two car ambush children
of men in this dystopian thriller a
loving moment quickly turns into chaos
when the party gets ambushed director
Alfonso Cuaron wanted to avoid the use
of green screens at all costs but was
determined to realize this long take
sequence so he built a drivable film rig
that allowed the camera to move around
the car ceiling to film the actors while
a driver actually handled the car
even with his tech however the 12 days
of shooting were plagued with errors and
delays
[Music]
on the final day of filming blood
splatter actually hit the lens while a
less open-minded team may have cut
thankfully the crew didn’t hear Harlan’s
direction and kept rolling with the
resulting footage making for one
seriously intense long take before we
unveil our topic here are a few
honorable mentions
and I get devil now kindly until they
stretch if you’re the devil one I’ll
make the straps disappear
number one Shelley Duvall’s breakdown
the shining four showed the ball-playing
Wendy torrents was more living nightmare
than horror film shoot during her 500
day film shoot Duvall became ill
multiple times and there’s little
question as to why in addition to
tearing into Duvall repeatedly onset
Stanley Kubrick reportedly asked the
crew not to sympathize with her in order
to put her further into the characters
mindset of isolation I don’t sympathize
with Shelley there was no shortage of
draining moments to film but even so the
baseball bat scene stands out as
particularly harrowing Duvall was
reportedly forced to deliver the
emotionally demanding scene a whopping
127 times by the end she was reportedly
losing her hair she do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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