10 Problems That Made Movies Better

Though just about every director under the sun would give their right arm to helm a project that experiences next to no issues or controversy throughout shooting, the movie-making business simply doesn't work that way.

There are just too many combustable variables that go into bringing a feature to life to completely avoid a problem or two along the way. However, just because things go wrong on occasion, doesn't necessarily mean films are worse off because of it.

Quite the contrary, in fact, as history has regularly shown us that some of the finest movies ever delivered to audiences on the big screen were actually aided on their way to becoming respected pieces of art by a whole host of unexpected problems, malfunctions, and overall chaos coming into the project.

From initial cuts not being quite up to scratch, to a lack of funding opening the door for some movie magic to do its thing, each of the following entries prove that things not exactly going to plan isn't always a death sentence for a feature.

Better yet, these problems actually made their films that much greater in the end...

It's mind-boggling to think that, for a time, the producers behind Steve Spielberg's game-changing blockbuster Jaws wanted to train an actual great white shark to be used in the movie.

Ultimately, common sense prevailed and animatronic fishes were opted for instead. However, these bad boys, by the name of 'Bruce', would end up giving the director a bigger headache than he'd expected.

The minute the crew plopped the first Bruce into the sea, the robotic shark sank to the bottom, a result of no-one bothering to check if salt water would have a different effect on the machine to fresh water coming into the shoot. Frequent malfunctions and the overall unresponsiveness of the contraptions soon forced the director to think on his feet. His answer: rely on the audience's imagination instead.

In shooting scenes of the shark picking off its prey from the POV of the terrifying fish, accompanied by John Williams' unmistakable score, Spielberg was able to simultaneously gloss over an unreliable animatronic and brilliantly build up to its eventual reveal.

Had Bruce been a little more-co-operative, would Jaws have really made us afraid to go into the water?