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Sometimes information about a real-life event that ties into a medium is revealed that undermines one's appreciation for said medium. Other times, that same info can make you enjoy the medium even more. Then there's Cue Irony, real-life facts and/or events about a show that make you really appreciate what those involved went through to make the medium. Named such because, more often than not, said event or fact will lead contradictory to what the show is all about (read, Irony), it's usually a testament to the dedication and love an actor, cast member, or other production member has for their livelihood, with the idea that knowing how much they suffered to bring you their masterpieces makes one understand and empathize with them, and allows one to better appreciate and enjoy the medium; after all, it would be unbecoming of a fan to take the creators' sacrifice in vain. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Usually involves Dyeing for Your Art and Enforced Method Acting. Extreme cases border Fatal Method Acting. Examples: |
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Tic-Tac-Dough creator Howard Felscher was exiled from TV because of his role in the Quiz Show Scandals along with his bosses Jack Barry and Dan Enright. In 1973, Felscher would land a job at Goodson-Todman where he would helm the revival of Concentration which was originally a Barry-Enright production. | |
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Although Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 got mediocre reviews with critics, there were quite a few people who did enjoy the game, elevating it to Cult Classic status. For these people, the news of the game's Troubled Production did invoke this trope. | |
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Beethoven's later works can be considered Cue Irony when one keeps in mind he was going deaf when he composed them in the early 1800s. To quote Terry Pratchett, "Deafness doesn't prevent composers from hearing the music. It prevents them from hearing the distractions." | |
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This gives a greater appreciation for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (a film that brought Hayao out of retirement) when you realize it is meant as one long apology to his son, the father personally defying Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You. | |
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In the early Godzilla movies, the monster suit weighed hundreds of pounds and was intensely hot, especially under studio lights. Stuntman/actor Haruo Nakajima lost tens of pounds in sweat, and would routinely faint. It could have killed a lesser man. Later suits were lighter, but increased pyrotechnics brought other risks, such as in Terror of Mechagodzilla, where a nearby explosion set the suit's back-spikes on fire. The shot is in the movie, and even through the suit the stuntman is visibly panicking. | |
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Remember that scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn kicks an orc helmet and screams in frustration because he thinks the hobbits are lost? He just broke his toe. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Sontaran Experiment", Tom Baker broke his collarbone badly while undergoing a stunt (possibly one calling for him to fall down a ravine). Subsequent shots in the episode using him show his scarf laying oddly — it's covering up the neckbrace and cast. Earlier on, in "Terror of the Autons", a stuntman playing an Auton was supposed to be rammed by a car while on the edge of a quarry with him landing on the hood of the car. The car hit him just a bit too hard, sending him flying down the quarry's slope. The director left the camera running, getting the ultimately injury-free incident on film and decided to use it rather than the shot as planned. The final scene of "Castrovalva" (where Tegan and the Doctor discuss Tegan's landing of the TARDIS) does not include Adric, as Matthew Waterhouse had had a bit too much Campari while partying the night before and was hung over and nauseous. He's said that is the reason that he looks pale in the sequences shot that day (which works out well, as the script calls for him to be wan and haggard after the ordeal the Master subjected him to). The dashing upper lip scar that first appears on the Fourth Doctor's mouth during "The Pirate Planet" and hangs around forever after is a real scar obtained in an accident involving a Doctor Who director's dog. The Fourth Doctor is noticeably pale, thin and bony in his first season as a result of his actor having been, at the time of his casting, homeless and living entirely on whatever scraps of food were given to him by clients - mostly bread pudding and booze. It works well as it exaggerates his alien appearance - for instance, the eerie photograph of him used in the opening titles is lit and shot to exaggerate his cheek and chin bones in a way that would have been impossible when he's at a healthier weight later on. At the other end of his tenure, he begins looking noticeably unhealthy in his very last stories (from "State of Decay" onwards) due to being in ill health - again, this works, as it highlights his upcoming regeneration and new, moodier personality. One of the actors playing the ant-monsters the Zarbi in "The Web Planet" broke his back thanks to the uncomfortable costumes, and many more of them ended up with permanent back problems as a result. Despite playing literally the same person, Jon Pertwee and his successor Tom Baker absolutely could not stand each other in real life. Jon Pertwee point-blankly refused to be in the same room as Tom Baker while filming the regeneration scene, and apparently spent most of "The Five Doctors" making catty comments about him until Elisabeth Sladen told him to knock it off. Tom Baker noted in his autobiography that Jon "was very nice and didn't wish me luck or anything like that", complained about Pertwee's lack of interest in buying drinks, and once crossed the line by recounting a time he deliberately antagonised the other actor just before the heart attack which killed him, joking that he hoped he was responsible for his death. |
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In The Lord of the Rings movies, several actors really suffered for their art. Remember that scene in The Two Towers where Aragorn kicks an orc helmet and screams in frustration because he thinks the hobbits are lost? He just broke his toe. Poor John Rhys-Davies was playing Gimli and was allergic to his latex mask. In the section when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are running across the countryside after the orcs, Viggo Mortensen had a broken toe, Brett Beattie (John Rhys Davis' stunt double) had a knee injury, and Orlando Bloom had broken ribs sustained from falling off a horse. Then there's Sean Bean, who hated helicopters. So, rather than ride the helicopter to the top of the mountain where the shoot was taking place, he climbed the mountain in his full Boromir costume, did the shoot, and then climbed back down again. The climb took him two hours each way. That's dedication. When Sam runs into the lake to follow Frodo, what you don't hear is that the actor stepped on a piece of glass in the lake and opened up his foot doing it. |
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Two characters on Babylon 5 end up with broken bones in fight scenes. One of them, Claudia Christian, had already had a broken foot (slipping on an icy step) and had the injury aggravated in the scene that (ironically enough) justified the actress walking with a cane and a limp. The other one, Jerry Doyle, actually broke his arm while filming a fight scene (where, ironically, he was supposed to have injured his leg, causing a minor continuity issue). | |
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