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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn is a 1998 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller (in his final theatrical film), written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Eric Idle. It is a satire of the filmmaking business.A director (Idle) has been allowed to direct Trio, a big-budget action film starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg and Jackie Chan (all three of them played by themselves). The studio recuts the film, and when the director sees the results, he wants to disown the film. Problem is, he can't use the Alan Smithee pseudonym used in Hollywood when someone does not want to have their name attached to a bad film, because his name is Alan Smithee, so he steals the film negative and goes on the run, threatening to destroy it.The film is best known for how its plot eventually, and ironically, described the film's own production: director Hiller requested that his name be removed from its credits after witnessing the final cut completed by the studio. The film's creation set off a chain of events which would lead the Directors Guild of America to officially discontinue the Alan Smithee credit.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Artistic License – Film Production: Even back during the days when films were shot and edited on celluloid film, Smithee's destroying the master print of Trio would at best have been a minor inconvenience. Back in those days, the development labs would strike multiple physical film reels from each negative, meaning that all that the producers would have to do would be call up the lab, get them to ship over some spare reels, then use them to re-assemble the film — a process that would take maybe a couple of days at the absolute most. The plot would maybe have worked had it been focusing around the production of a low-budget, independent film, which often were directly edited from the camera negative back in those days, but a major studio would never have done anything so risky. If anything, the real problem that the studio would have faced would have been the bad publicity generated by Smithee's actions. | |
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Alan Smithee: Invoked. The plot of the film is about how a director wants his name out of the Film Within a Film, but can't, because he really is named Alan Smithee in-universe. However, as noted in more detail in the Trivia page, this pseudonym ended up also being applied to this film in real life. | |
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