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3. Akira Kurosawa Demanded Thousands Of Cups Of Tea - Red Beard

The Shining
Toho Studios

Even more committed to the cause than Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa is the master of authenticity and is the sort of guy that absolutely lives for those ridiculous hipster cafes that serve your coffee deconstructed into three different parts and charges 18 times more for it. Yeah, I see you Kurosawa, and I raise you one watery ASDA cafe cup right back at you. Who's winning now!? Probably Kurosawa still.

His film Red Beard, in particular, takes the whole-grain, organic raisin-stuffed biscuit in this case, with whole rooms of his sets flush with expensive props sourced from the correct 19th century time period. If he couldn't find it, then wood from the time was found instead and it would be built, or aged appropriately to reflect its wear through the ages.

Teacups weren't suitable for filming until hundreds of litres of hot drinks had been passed through them, cupboards were filled with items never seen or mentioned on set, and no matter how many lines an actor had - there was a complete dossier on their backstory that had to be memorised.

There's dedicated, then there's just being plain difficult.

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