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He laughs and cries. He jokes and rages. He begs, he cajoles, he screams, he threatens suicide. He eats so much of the background that it has to be replaced between takes, and he'll eat your face too if you try to correct him. He's also not on stage. The worst nightmare an actor, especially in the world of fiction, can face is a director of this type. He's hammier than BRIAN BLESSED and has an extremely exacting interpretation of his own artistic vision. He believes himself to be lord of the studio and no one dares to correct him, including those higher up the executive ladder (i.e. his bosses). Often times he can act better (or at least more dramatically) than all of his actors put together, and he expects each and every one of his staff to be up to his standards. He will take sole credit for the production and will shamelessly steal other people's brilliant ideas and pass them off as his own. One wonders why he hasn't been fired yet if they are so temperamental. But sometimes, it's because his methods work. He actually can make his vision real within a given deadline, with an amazing high-quality standard, setting him somewhere near the Bunny-Ears Lawyer and Insufferable Genius category. If this guy has a redeeming feature, that's it. In Real Life, there is a multitude of reasons why people may be difficult to be around, and especially when it comes to a creative endeavor some just don't play well with others. And often it may be that they have a good relationship with the producers or crew but fight with the actors, or any combination thereof. Thus explaining why they keep their job. The Prima Donna is what happens when this person is in front of the camera instead. Contrast Wag the Director. Can very easily become the film-making equivalent of the Mad Artist. He can often be found making Le Film Artistique — or, at the very least, he'll claim that he'll be trying to make this to get away with throwing petulant tantrums a six-year-old would be called out over. The Record Producer from Hell and the Acrimonious Producer are the musical equivalents. No Real Life Examples, Please! Even if it is Truth in Television (plenty of examples can be found in our Troubled Production and Hostility on the Set pages). |
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Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: Episode 4, Bu-Bum and the animals encounter a zealous director, who is traveling Italy with his crew. He drafts Boo-Boom into his movie without even bothering if the boy is interested or not, changes scenes on a whim whenever he gets a better idea, isn't above applying Enforced Method Acting (like taking away Boo-Boom's Precious Photo since he wants real tears for a scene), and even puts his actors in danger by forcing them to shoot a scene in a partly destroyed building that is about to collapse. | |
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Bojack Horseman: In season 5, Bojack and Diane have to deal with one as both are working in his show: Philbert. Flip, the creator, is a man who thinks of himself as the next great genius of television, despite having laughable writing skills, being only able to put out bizarre and inconclusive plotlines under the guise that True Art Is Incomprehensible. He accepts no suggestions from anyone and Diane actually has to push him away from the typewriter to manage to write something for the show, which he afterward takes credit for. | |
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Kimba the White Lion has a nature documentary director who puts a captive orangutan in his documentary of African wildlife and yells at his workers to use it despite their cries of Misplaced Wildlife (he defended his claim that there are orangutans in Africa on the basis that the captive one he's filming is in Africa). He goes so far as to make them start a large fire in the jungle just to film a stampede. | |
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Cheers: Naturally, when Diane is allowed to get behind a camera, she's one of these, scolding the gang for not following her pretentious and overblown direction ("You're ruining the mise-en-scene!") and eventually storming out. Many years later, Cliff is asked to direct a home movie for Woody and his girlfriend Kelly. He insists on doing dozens of takes because he doesn't think either of them are convincing enough. Eventually, Frasier finally takes over... and reduces Kelly to tears because her first take isn't satisfying to him. |
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In Are You Being Served?, Mr. Humphries became this whenever the cast puts on a show. | |
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Some Miraculous Ladybug fics depict Nino as one whenever his Acquired Situational Narcissism kicks in. Tellingly in Scarlet Lady where Marinette tells him to knock it off or she'll impale him with a clipboard. | |
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Parodied with the Whose Line Is It Anyway? game "Hollywood Director". | |
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In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Babs gradually becomes such a director in "The Show Must Hop On" when she's assigned to direct the Acme Looniversity production of Rabbit Season. Much of the cast is unhappy with the roles they've been assigned, but she doesn't want to hear their complaints, and keeps insisting Plucky say nothing and do nothing in his role as a cactus. It even gets to the point where Babs starts feuding with her own brother Buster for not letting him play Bugs, all the while claiming the cast's complaints are interfering with "her vision". It isn't until the first act of the performance goes horribly wrong that Babs realizes what she's done and refused to listen to the cast members. Once she directly talks to them about why she made those casting choices, the rest of the play goes smoothly. | |
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In the Community episode "Documentary Making: Redux", Dean Pelton is tasked with filming a thirty-second commercial advertising the school and is given $2000 to do so. It ends up costing over $17000, involves green-screen, costumes, and strategic placement of oranges, and turns the Dean into a tantrum-throwing maniac who ends up causing the nervous breakdowns of almost every single one of his students. At one point, he films Britta and Troy turning and hugging for twelve hours straight. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo turns into one of these when he is partnered with Mac to produce a film for a contest in "One False Movie". He constantly orders Mac around and spends their entire assigned budget on a megaphone. | |
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In Irreconcilable Differences, Albert Bronsky goes from being a geeky film scholar to an obnoxious, diva-ish film director who takes up with a much younger actress, who is starring in his film. He's loosely but obviously based on Peter Bogdanovich. | |
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The Transformers: The director from "Hoist Goes Hollywood." He adds the Autobots to his film on a whim, even changing the entire script to accommodate them. | |
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On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick turned into this trope when he directed a School Play of Romeo and Juliet. He got fired eventually. | |
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DuckTales (2017) stars Alistair Boorswan. Vain, overly verbose, and obsessed with making a Darker and Edgier film reboot of a family-friendly TV series (Darkwing Duck) that he knows nothing about, and distraught at having an actual child hired to edit his "psychological masterpiece". He also serves as a mash-up of Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder (and is voiced by a real-life director as well). The only person with an even bigger ego than him is Jim Starling, the original Darkwing Duck actor, and he's not even supposed to be in the reboot! | |
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Return to Cabin by the Lake: The movie-within-a-movie Cabin by the Lake's director Mike Helton is a complete tool and sleaze who sleeps with his female leads in exchange for future job offers, constantly hurls abuse at his co-workers, demands to micromanage every aspect of the production, and falsely claims to be an expert on the (not actually) deceased serial killer the film is about. After Stanley gets rid of him, no one except the two female stars really questions his disappearance. | |
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The Owl House: Adrian Graye Verneworth, head witch of the Illusion Coven, behaves like one, often berating his underlings and offering useless “notes� on their performances. | |
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Overwatch has a map set in Hollywood, where the mission is to escort an Omnic B-Movie director named HAL-Fred Glitchbot from his limo to his trailer (with the implication that the enemy team is fighting tooth and nail to stop him from returning to the studio). He has a very high opinion of himself, and depending on how the game goes, he'll often deliver condescending and bossy snark to his escorting crew. | |
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Lost Light: The director of the Void Moon movie is a prima donna who insists on having $2 million in real money to use as a prop—it's a crime drama about the theft of a Briefcase Full of Money—despite the fact that most movies don't use real cash and the full $2 million won't ever get in the shot anyway. This insistence on verisimilitude naturally facilitates an armed robbery on the movie set. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi herself, when she has the SOS Brigade make a film. She throws tantrums and even goes as far as to drug Mikuru for the purpose of filming a "love scene". | |
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The Crypt Keeper in Demon Knight takes on this role, berating John Larroquette ("Where'd they dig this guy up from?") for his performance. | |
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In Seinfeld, Jerry turns into one when he's forced to make bootleg copies of movies. | |
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Miraculous! Rewrite: Thomas Astruc is depicted as one of these in "Animaestro", dismissing legitimate critiques of his Ladybug movie by claiming that the critics in question focused too much on "trivial things" and whining about how they're ignoring his "interesting" story (which appears to be a Cliché Storm judging from the comments) in favor of that. | |
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Far Cry 5 features Guy Marvel, the director of Blood Dragon, a film based on the Far Cry game of the same name. He's temperamental, Can't Take Criticism, and is obsessed with making shallow action films filled with guns, explosions, and murder. (Character Development? What character development?) He's also perfectly happy to have the Player Character run around shooting a bunch of local cultists just because they're being noisy and he needs silence on setnote granted, those cultists did have it coming, but still.... Really, you'll be wishing you could kill him by the end of the missions. For bonus points, he looks like a fat Michael Bay. | |
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At the end of Free Enterprise, Mark becomes one of these, while filming, well, the film you're currently watching. When he yells at an assistant to go find William Shatner, who's supposed to be playing himself, his wife complains that he's a jerk. | |
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In Bride of the Rat God, Miklos Hraldy obsesses about symbolism and complains about the studio cutting his earlier six-hour epic of human drama down to a length that audiences will actually consider watching. | |
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The Dream On two-parter "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" has Sir Roland Moorecock, who would make for a great stuffy Brit if he weren't busy with his film work (he's played by David Bowie). At the end, he's chewing out the lead actors when Martin steps in to chew him out, on behalf of all those present, for his unyielding snobbishness and cruelty...whereupon Sir Roland proves himself the best actor of the lot by successfully pretending to be shamed before gleefully declaring "I DON'T CARE!" | |
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Sailor Moon had an episode where Rei becomes this when she's in charge of organizing the entertainment for her school's Fall Festival. She's shown being extremely temperamental with her classmates, often decrying "Do I have to do everything myself?!". Her friends note that her narcissism is in full bloom, and suggest that she's using the festival to promote herself, as she bills her singing act as the main attraction. This turns out to be a case of Awesome Ego, as her performance was well received by the audience. | |
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In Red vs. Blue The Shisno Paradox, Jax Jonez has become one, and a Bad Boss to boot. He's demanding, unconcerned with his crew's health and well-being, and utterly convinced that since his movie recreation of Season 15 has the most Troubled Production ever, it's guaranteed to be the best movie ever. | |
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Meet the Feebles: Sebastian, the director of the Feebles variety show. He yells at all the cast, dismisses their assorted problems (up to and including death) as mere annoyances, assigns the new kid to the knife-throwing act for questioning his choreography; and, against the producer's explicit orders, uses the last-minute cancellation of several acts as an excuse to go on stage himself and do a song-and-dance number about sodomy. | |
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Litchfield from Instant Classic is a textbook one of these, although he often straddles the line between prima donna and pure madness. Like the time he shot himself. Or the time he burned his own studio down while he was in it. In fact, since most of the main characters are filmmakers, they all slip into this trope at some point. | |
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Microsoft Sam in Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers, who insistently threatens Scotty for mishearing his orders and adding incorrect content to the shield. | |
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Stroker Ace: The man directing Stroker's radio commercial is a subdued variant. He groans about Stroker's performance despite Stroker genuinely following his directions and contemplates putting Lugs in the booth until Lugs suggests he could sing the slogan. This causes him to drop his headphones and split. | |
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The director of "Queen of the Zombies" in a Joan of Arcadia episode. Perhaps justified in that he turned out to be God. | |
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The titular Garth Marenghi from Garth Marenghis Darkplace, who is an inept, arrogant, and bigoted horror novelist trying to play at being the director of a TV show. Naturally, the resulting series is godawful and the production is a nightmare. Things are only exacerbated by Marenghi's publisher/producer Dean Learner, who is an unhinged loon with a childlike reverence for his employer that only encourages the latter's egoism and unprofessionalism. | |
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The director from Singin' in the Rain is pretty much that in most of his scenes — though to be honest, how else can you react when faced with an actual Prima Donna? | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch did an episode where a major studio had bought the rights to make The Movie version of the show, and referee Mills Lane was picked to be the director, despite having no movie experience whatsoever. The original plan was to have Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone fight to the death for the job, but they ended up accidentally killing each other, forcing Nick and Johnny to beg Mills to save the movie. However, he quickly turns into a prima donna director over the course of about 20 minutes, to the point where he starts referring to himself in the third person by the end. | |
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In Hollywood Visionary, if you hire a director, this is downplayed. The director is going to want to mess with the script a bit against your wishes, and if you don't control them, they'll cost you some money and possibly change the nature of the movie in ways you don't want. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: In "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?", Sappy Stanley was once a famous American cartoon star, but after one of his shorts nominated for a Shloskar award lost to Bugs Bunny's cartoon, Knighty Knight Bugs, Stanley scorned the American film industry, moved to Paris, and spent decades planning his revenge on Bugs. On the day following the bopping incident, Stanley goes off to film one of his shorts and acts like a donkey's butt to his entire crew, getting mad at one guy for simply sitting on a couch drinking coffee. It's implied that his attitude is coming from the stress of keeping his cover. In "Kon Ducki", Plucky is shown to be this in the "Making of" segment when he oversees production of the titular film. He verbally and physically abuses the staff, gives outlandish demands, and only starts acting nice when he realizes he’s on camera. In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Babs gradually becomes such a director in "The Show Must Hop On" when she's assigned to direct the Acme Looniversity production of Rabbit Season. Much of the cast is unhappy with the roles they've been assigned, but she doesn't want to hear their complaints, and keeps insisting Plucky say nothing and do nothing in his role as a cactus. It even gets to the point where Babs starts feuding with her own brother Buster for not letting him play Bugs, all the while claiming the cast's complaints are interfering with "her vision". It isn't until the first act of the performance goes horribly wrong that Babs realizes what she's done and refused to listen to the cast members. Once she directly talks to them about why she made those casting choices, the rest of the play goes smoothly. |
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Wormwood Institute: In "90s TV News Outtakes", the male host goes ballistic on his female co-host for messing up on her script, to the point where she is on the verge of tears by the end of the tape. He fires her shortly after this. | |
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Hitman (2016) has bonus mission target Dino Bosco, a washed-up character actor now directing and starring in a superhero action film. Bosco is a colossal Jerkass to his crew, and his rampant perfectionism - reshooting the same scene over and over for weeks on end - has put the film over budget and the producing studio in financial trouble. Ultimately, the studio figures that it's cheaper to hire an assassin to eliminate him than it would be to breach the contract and fire the man. | |
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Team Fortress 2: The unnamed Director of the "Meet the Team" series of short films is one of these, apparently laboring under the delusion that he is creating a scathing docudrama of epic proportions, rather than the series of propaganda films the Administrator has hired him for. Unbeknownst to both him and his subjects, The Administrator is actually using the Director to gather intel on the RED team to blackmail them into playing by her rules. Neither the Team nor Miss Pauling is willing to put up with him for very long... | |
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Molly Coddle adopts this attitude in the Bump in the Night Christmas Episode "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" when nobody takes her seriously as pageant director. Fortunately, she sees the error of her ways and the other characters forgive her for being bossy and rude. | |
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John Wilson in White Hunter, Black Heart a strong-willed, intelligent man who nevertheless places his own desires above his ideals, who rails at Hollywood's dishonesty and yet is not above keeping an expensive film on hold while he abandons his location to go elephant shooting. | |
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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: When recreating a crime scene for their investigation, Tama will roleplay as a hilariously overbearing director that orders Ryuki around and cusses him out like he's a third-rate actor. | |
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Marty Wolff in Big Fat Liar is a case of Prima Donna Producer. The actual director of the Movie within a Movie, Dusty Wong, is actually fairly reasonable and is one of Wolff's many chew toys. | |
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Jhin, the Virtuoso, in League of Legends is a Mad Artist who sees murder as a stage performance which he produces, directs, and choreographs (with his victims as the actors, naturally). The resulting combination of auteur, Soft-Spoken Sadist, and this trope in his voicelines is profoundly creepy, especially when he flips from one mode to another without warning. | |
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The Serge Storms novel The Big Bamboo is centered around the production of a movie being made by a third-rate studio, that hired a once-great director who had gone senile. Included in the film at the director's insistence are recreations of the parting of the Red Sea and the destruction of the Death Star, despite the fact that the movie is about an oil scam in Alabama. American viewers rightly rejected it as awful, but artsy film critics in Europe thought it was brilliant, and successfully got the director a posthumous Oscar. | |
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The director in Bolt believed that the best way to get an authentic performance out of Bolt was to make the dog believe he was a real superdog and his owner was actually in mortal danger, ruining Bolt and Penny's home life. He even dared to do a Take That! in the production immediately after a network rep complained, and in her face, no less. | |
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Alex Kralie acted like one of these when directing his student film Marble Hornets, but you'd be pretty high-strung too if you were being stalked by a - ohGodwhatisthat? | |
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In the 1970s educational series The Electric Company (1971), Rita Moreno played one of these, named Otto (a Shout-Out to Otto Preminger), complete with a riding crop, as a recurring character. The man who held cue cards for her was terrified of her. | |
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Frasier becomes one of these while directing a radio production for his station's anniversary. During the script reading alone he drives one of the cast to quit by repeatedly criticizing the voices he (a professional Broadway actor), used for the characters (such as his voice for the dwarf sounding "Too Tall"). Things do not get better on the day of the performance. | |
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Marshall Townend from Friends. Alternates between Large Ham and Deadpan Snarker. As Joey so eloquently puts it, "He's like a cartoon!". When the play finally debuts the critics tear it to pieces leaving the director looking even more ridiculous. | |
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James Finson in the Code Lyoko episode "End of Take". | |
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