Filmmaking, as we, the outsiders, know it, is all luster and shine — the Oscars, the red carpet, fawning fans. But once we infiltrate that shining shell, it is mostly endless rewrites, droning shoots, constant anxiety, panic, creative battles, and second decisions. It’s a long series of instincts, compromises, and deadlines.Oh yes—regrets. It’s hard not to have any when the process is so tedious and grand and involves so many decisions that depend on pure instincts. This is especially true with the directors, even the ones who have famously mastered their craft. These regrets can be about hastily written scripts, studio meddling, tonal choices, or cultural contexts that shift over the years in the direction the filmmakers hoped they wouldn’t.Believe it or not, the classics and the big blockbusters are also not exempt from regrets. While the audience adores, worships, and studies them, their makers can’t help but remember only those things they could have done differently or hadn’t done at all.This list has no intention of claiming the movies were, in any way, undeserving of their acclaim. Creative regrets are normal and, more importantly, subjective. If anything, they humanize these filmmakers.11 Times Great Filmmakers Regretted Making Their Movies1. Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator, 1940)Regretted the film’s tone after historical events Today, 80 years later, we know the full scale of everything that Adolf Hitler did. When The Great Dictator was in the making, however, the scope of his evil deeds was not fully known. Chaplin wrote the story throughout...
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