10 Strangest Movie Changes Made After Filming
These movies got some seriously weird tweaks during post-production.
Writing and shooting a movie may sound like the toughest, most critical part of the process, but post-production is no damn picnic whatsoever.
Shaping the filmed material into a whole that's both coherent and entertaining is a major miracle that audiences have a tendency to take for granted.
And while it's in no way uncommon for films to make changes to the content once principal photography has been completed, some changes are more "normal" and expected than others.
Reshooting scenes to fix tonal issues, glaring mistakes, or clarify narrative beats are all as ordinary as filmmaking gets, but these 10 movies all carried out some truly head-scratching tweaks few would've ever anticipated.
They range from bizarre "experimentation" with the film's colour palette to tossing out laboured-over practical effects, painstakingly changing a character's name, and even making an actor look less hot.
Though most of these behind-the-scenes changes are seamless enough that general audiences will never notice, the fact that they were made at all is still deeply strange, and a testament to just how much movies can be obsessively fussed-over by those working on them...
10. Changing The Colour Of Elliot Page's Hoodie - Hard Candy
Psychological thriller Hard Candy is memorable for many reasons, most of all the film's persistent invocation of Little Red Riding Hood-esque imagery, by way of protagonist Hayley Stark's (Elliot Page) red clothing.
The bright red hoodie she wears was featured extensively in the movie's marketing campaign, enough to suggest that it was entirely intentional to play-up that aesthetic aspect of the story.
And yet, as Page himself revealed later, this wasn't at all the case.
As it turned out, the hoodie wasn't even red during shooting - it was orange, but once the filmmakers realised the Little Red Riding Hood connection during post-production, they had it digitally colour-corrected to red.
This is, at least, a relatively simple edit for the standards of this list - changing a colour space from orange to red can be done on any half-decent home computer - but all the same, it's something you'd never have ever expected after watching the movie.