10 Film Directors Who Totally Tricked The Studio

5. Stanley Kubrick Made The Forced Narration Intentionally Misleading - The Killing

Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film noir classic The Killing is a non-linear heist film, and one which United Artists felt was initially too confusing.

As such, they insisted that Kubrick include a voiceover narration track, ultimately provided by Art Gilmore, to keep the audience informed on when scenes were taking place in the chronology of the story.

But Kubrick, ever the sly dog, decided to have the narrated times be intentionally inconsistent and misleading, therefore only adding yet another layer of dubious reliability and confusion as opposed to actually clarifying the story.

There are enough contradictions on the part of the "omniscient" narrator that he really only makes things more labyrinthine, even if to a studio executive likely not paying much attention to the movie at all, Kubrick lived up to his basic end of the request.