2. Jack Torrance's Manuscript in The Shining Was Hand-Typed in Several Languages
Stanley Kubrick's name is pretty much synonymous with finicky, obsessive director. Some of the things he did to get performances out of his actors are legendary, including shooting
over a hundred takes for a single scene or misleading his cast members about the nature of the film they were playing in. Occasionally, though, Kubrick's genius veered directly into madness as he poured insane amounts of detail into insignificant things that no one would even notice. Like insisting that the table on the War Room of
Dr. Strangelove be covered in green fabric despite the entire film being in black and white. The worst of all, though, was when he had his own secretary painstakingly type out hundreds of pages of All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy for
The Shining. This on its own would be obsessive enough, but Kubrick took it even further by having the same thing done in multiple languages for the foreign release of the film. Why bother with subtitles when you can spend months on a project that takes up a few seconds of screen time?