When filming Young Frankenstein in the 70’s, Mel Brooks tracked down the original designer for the 1931 Frankenstein (Kenneth Strickfaden) with the intention of politely asking the old man to do a quick consultation on the lab equipment to try to reasonably replicate it...

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Strickfaden replied that he had all the equipment in his garage and would loan it to them for $1,000. Brooks paid him $2,500 and also made sure that Strickfaden's name, which was not in the credits for 1931 Frankenstein, was included in the credits for Young Frankenstein.

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For me it's "in the final battle most of the Rohan warriors are women with fake beards, because that's who you get when you ask people to show up with their own horses"

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This one

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a huge complicating factor is that it's difficult to talk about these things when it comes to highly composite art forms like video games or cinema one person might see a subcategory of a craft as a means to an end, while to someone else it is the craft that gives them a lot of meaning and purpose

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