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** It lasted well into their popularity and the new millennium, still at local Brooklyn number (718)-387-6962 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (718)-387-6962      end_of_the_skype_highlighting. "Always busy, always broken" and "Free when you call from work" were its slogans.

*** Well, besides [[CanonDiscontinuity those ones by a different dev-]] [[KilledMidSen ACK]]

** It lasted well into their popularity and the new millennium, still at local Brooklyn number (718)-387-6962. "Always busy, always broken" and "Free when you call from work" were its slogans.

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** Although it's clearly...referencing Fischli&Weiss' much older 'The Way Things Go'. There even was a lawsuit...

Contrast with TheyJustDidntCare and MoneyDearBoy. The same motive appears in a far less benign (and more explosive) form in ForSCIENCE.

-->''"We didn't make them for kids. We made them for ourselves."''\\
--'''Chuck Jones''' on the movie theater release (30s to 40s) ''LooneyTunes'' shorts.

-->''"'''MONEY?''' [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules Who cares about money]]?! This is '''art''', you blockhead!!"''\\
--'''Schroeder''', ''{{Peanuts}}''

This is a SubjectiveTrope in spades - and one of the few we have that's generally positive in nature (a reverse of SturgeonsLaw, where the bad examples are rare). '''So try not to muck it up'''.

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* Surprisingly, the SoBadItsHorrible film {{North}}, [[TropesAreNotGood uses this trope.]] Apparently, director Rob Reiner wanted to make a touching fable that would be his very own [[TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]]. What he failed to realize is that he made [[ThePrincessBride his own touching fable]] seven years before.

* It might be hard to believe today, but James Cameron's ''{{Titanic}}'' was a film of epic proportions which frankly had most of Cameron's producers worried. This thing cost 200 million to produce. Good luck finding many [[OscarBait Oscar-chasing films]] today with even a tenth of that budget.

*** Cameron is like that with ALL his movies. When making ''The'' ''{{Terminator}}'', he actually called weapons manufacturers to ask about how to make a 100-terawatt pulse rifle. Understandably, they were confused.

* ''LordOfTheRings'', the movie version. For those of you who don't already know about the insane efforts went to to make this adaptation, just remember this- part of the budget was dedicated to a couple of guys making chain mail. That's right. A couple. By themselves. By hand. They actually rubbed off their fingerprints in the process because normal costumes just weren't going to cut it. Of course, as you can see below, they were taking the motto of Tolkien straight to heart.

*** And don't forget the various [[http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_news.htm inscriptions and other writings]] seen in the movies. (The inscriptions on swords and other weapons are authentic Elvish; longer texts, such as books, are just English transcribed into an appropriate alphabet, but still a lot of work.)

** Mark Hamill has commented before on the fact that GeorgeLucas seemed down in all of the interviews that he gave around the time that the original trilogy was made on account of the fact that he wasn't able to do things the way that he'd envisioned. As unfaithful as people feel the rereleases may be, they're closer to Lucas' original vision than what was initially shown in cinemas.

** That's just the kind of guy Kubrick was. The interior of the airplane in DrStrangelove was so realistic that the military launched a brief inquiry into how the movie makers had gotten the inside information.
** Clarke published a few lines from his diary from pre-production in the introduction of a re-issue of the novel. They include "rang Isaac Asimov to ask him about the biochemistry of turning herbivores into carnivores." And they never even [[ShownTheirWork did anything]] with that...

* [[DyeingForYourArt Actors gaining or losing weight for film roles]] certainly qualifies (when prosthetics could just as easily be used, especially nowadays), with Robert [=DeNiro=]'s work on ''{{Raging Bull}}'' the most famous example...but PeterSellers arguably went the extra mile by gaining weight for ''BeingThere'' because he felt it looked right for the character - despite ''chronic and worsening heart problems'' and a subsequent hatred of how he looked on screen. It's hard not to think that his admitted difficult time losing the weight as fast as he could afterwards may have hastened his death. (See also CueIrony.)
** ChristianBale deserves mentioning. He had lost weight for his part in TheMachinist (imdb says 120 pounds on his 6 foot+ frame). Then ChristopherNolan told him he'd have to become bigger to be Batman. Bale did so and went up to about 220 pounds.
* The [=CGI=] for ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' (and yes, we ''entirely'' recognize the irony of listing a MerchandiseDriven film here) was some of the most intricate ever done. MichaelBay actually worked with the [=ILM=] crew to make sure all the light reflected properly off each part of the robots. He also filmed the action practically (with live action footage) and had the [=CGI=] made for the shots, instead doing everything CG wholesale. More expensive and harder to do, but the results speak for themselves.

* Meryl Streep learned German and Polish for her role in SophiesChoice. Maybe not completely fluently, but certainly to an astonishingly adept level. And she literally begged the director for the role on her hands and knees.
* Christopher Nolan wrote the script for ''{{Inception}}'' immediately after his success with ''{{Memento}}''. He then spent the next ''ten years'' revising the extremely complex story until he was satisfied that everything made sense and was the best he could make it.

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* ''LordOfTheRings'' and all related books written by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's [[strike:no exaggeration]] speaking God's own to say that the saga represents his total life's work. It's just that detailed.

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* Patrick McGoohan was, at one point, the highest paid star on tv. That he turned down both {{The Saint}} and {{James Bond}} and the millions he might have earned for another series of {{Danger Man}} in order to make {{The Prisoner}} speaks volumes. He also made sure that he supervised every element of the show, often rewriting and reshooting segments (when he wasn't the credited writer or director that is), all in order to make a highly personal statement about the nature of freedom.

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* At least two examples of this appear in the whimsical world of CirqueDuSoleil shows:
** The costume shop in Montreal, where costumes for all of the 20+ shows are made (to exact performer measurements, but that's as much for safety as for art), dyes all its own fabric so that a given costume's look need never be at the whims of a manufacturer.
** Brian Dewhurst, who plays the clown Brian Le Petit in ''{{Mystere}}'', has admitted in interviews that part of the reason he returned to the stage after several years on the production side of Cirque was because he simply missed the pleasure of performing. What truly elevates this to trope status is the fact that he was [[Main/CoolOldGuy born in 1932, joined the show in 2000, and is still with it in 2010...]]

** The costume shop in Montreal, where costumes for all of the 20+ shows are made, dyes all its own fabric so that a given costume's coloration need never be at the whims of a manufacturer. All costumes and headpieces are made to the ''exact'' measurements of the performer who will wear them. Bear in mind, many costume pieces (especially shoes) wear out quickly and must always have replacements at the ready...and a given show can require well over a hundred costumes...

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* The Metroid series in general goes to great lengths to make things atmospheric when they could have just given you a map and said "shoot this".

* The case of this is a bit sad for NaokoTakeuchi. She started out making the ''CodenameSailorV'' manga for her own AuthorAppeal and RuleOfFun personified project. The anime company picked up on the story and decided to ask her for ''SailorMoon''. It took her six years to make the manga, which was her own personal fantasy. She never expected the explosive worldwide popularity of the anime adaptation, and was at first excited, but saw the company turn it into a huge franchise. Her next manga got overshadowed. She got [[CreatorDisillusionment so tired of all of that]] that she's stopped SailorMoon marketing altogether, making it very hard to get official releases.

***You mean a "Phased Plasma Rifle, in a 40 watt range"

*Arguably, ''TheLegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess''. From my understanding, Nintendo delayed the game's release for six months to polish the graphics, when it knew full well that the game was likely to sell well as it was (assuming the graphics were all that was unfinished). In addition, there are ''tons'' of areas that the average player is never likely to go near; the "world map" is much, much bigger than they needed to make it.

*MarkWeid's ''KingdomCome'' is oozing with DC comic book lore, symbolism and biblical references among other things.

*''TheDarkKnight'' has the famous scene were a truck is turned upside-down by wires, finally crashing on the ground with a loud noise. Do you think they used CG to do that scene? Noooo, of course not! It was a ''real'' truck who was ''really'' thrown in the air, shot in a ''real'' street. They could do that stun only once, ignoring if the final shot would be cool or not. And it was '''awesome'''.

*[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rY3exryGq8 This]] video demonstrates the amount of detail the animators of ''{{Durarara}}!!'' went through in order to ensure that every detail of their fictional Ikebukuro would mimic almost every aspect of its real life counterpart.

*The manga version of ''{{Genshiken}}'' features very intricate and detailed backgrounds such as [[http://www.onemanga.com/Genshiken/2/11/ this page]], and references to real media to go with the otaku theme of the series. Example: "The Champ of Fighters" = ''TheKingOfFighters''

** The Xbox360 version of ''[[DonPachi DoDonPachi: DaiOuJou BLACK Label]]'' ended up being a PortingDisaster. Why? After an investigation at Arika and [=CAVE's=] request, the source code was being held by a management company and 5pb., the company in charge of the 360 port, stole the source code from the [=PS2=] version. Normally, a company would sue 5pb. into next week. What did Arika do instead? After an apology from 5pb.'s [=CEO=], Arika's [=CEO=], Ryo Mizutani, forgave them and Arika Vice President Ichiro Mihara is now ''helping 5pb. make a better port of [=DDP: DOJ=].''