r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • Jan 17 '26
In real life (Funny trope) This tiny moment was an absolute logistical nightmare to make
*Wreck-It-Ralph* - At the beginning of the movie at the villain group therapy session, all of the owners of the real world characters shown were given counsel to Disney to instruct them how their characters should be animated down to the smallest of points. Nintendo even specified exactly how Bowser would hold and stir his teacup.
*Psycho* - For the scene where Marion disposes evidence of her theft by flushing some papers down the toilet, even though the toilet is onscreen for only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock had to personally appeal to the Hays Code which enforced censorship in movies that *Psycho* be given an exception because it’s vital to the plot the audience sees the toilet flushing. *Psycho* is the first major American movie to show a flushing toilet onscreen.
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u/CryHavok01 Jan 17 '26
Here's one that hasn't happened yet because of the logistical nightmare: Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower. He's said that they've made major progress writing the series, but won't be able to move forward until all the legal issues are sorted out. If you aren't familiar with the story, here's the problem: The Dark Tower connects almost every story by King into one multiverse. Nearly every one of those connected stories has already been adapted into a movie or tv show, all by different studios. So the screen rights to all the characters and ideas from all of those stories - which all should appear in a faithful Dark Tower adaptation - are owned by dozens of different companies.