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30 Beloved Stories and Characters That Are Loathed by the Folks Who Brought Them to Life

March 07, 2024

You might love James Bond. That doesn’t mean Sean Connery has to.

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Emily Dickinson wanted her poetry to disappear with her. To hat Orch ro a n Dickinson left strict instructions to her sister Lavinia to burn every last poem she wrote after her death. But Lavinia couldn't do it. Which was especially lucky because the vast majority of those poems were unpublished at the time, so they'd have been gone forever. CRACKED.COM — Source

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А.А. Milne complained that Winnie the Pooh ruined his legacy. Milne, who wrote 25 plays, seven novels, and a few nonfiction works, aspired to be known as a serious writer. But he became famous for brilliant stories for children. Не grew to hate Pooh so much that he tried to kill him off in the second (and last) Pooh book. CRACKED.COM — Source

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To Kill A Mockingbird made Harper Lee so sick that she tossed the manuscript. To KillA Pockinghico PRIZE the Winner of PULITZER HARPER LEE To Kill a Mockingbird went through a torturous, three-year editing process. Near the end, Lee couldn't stand her book anymore, so she threw it out the window, where it fell on a snow bank. She called her editor, who told her to go out and pick up her manuscript, which she did. CRACKED.COM — Source

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To Joe Barbera (one half of Hanna-Barbera), Scooby-Doo was dumb and repetitive. It was just a bunch of teenagers hanging out with a big dumb dog, and all the episodes were rehashes of the same plot, he said. But the networks kept ordering more Scooby-Doo (he couldn't understand why), so his studio churned it out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant hates the obsession with Stairway to Heaven. Sampler-PR-175 STE SRPM NOTFORSALE om Allentic LP SD 7200 ED ZEPPEL STAIRWAY HEAVEN (Jimmy Page-Robert Plant) 17 50 HSCAP very - - Cre Plant thinks the song isn't so great compared to their other songs, and by the late '70s, he got completely fed up with singing it. His deep loathing was a roadblock to a Led Zeppelin reunion for decades, because he just didn't want to sing that song every night. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Arthur Conan Doyle felt writing Sherlock Holmes was dull hack work. Не saw historical fiction as his real work, and Sherlock Holmes as stuff that paid the bills. Doyle tried to kill off Holmes once, but bowed to fan pressure to bring him back. Not long after, he got so sick of him that he finally quit writing Holmes stories for good. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Clockwork Orange

CRACKED.COM Stanley Kubrick had A Clockwork Orange pulled from the British market. STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLOCKWORK RANGE When the movie was released, the UK was dealing with a wave of crime, and some lawyers said their clients were only emulating the movie. Kubrick's family even got death threats. So the movie was banned in the UK from a year after its release until 1999, when Kubrick died. — Source

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Virgil hated the epic poem he spent 11 years writing. THE AENEID PENGUIN COMPRICE EDITION TRANGLATED BY Virgil's Aeneid is an ode to the majesty of Rome, and it's considered one of humanity's greatest written works. But on his deathbed, he asked for the nearly finished poem to be burned. But Emperor Augustus ordered it to be finished. It implied his ancestor was Aeneas, founder of Rome, and Augustus liked that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first on-screen Superman called the role beneath his dignity and Supes' tights and cape a monkey suit. S George Reeves hated playing Superman in '50s movies and TV shows, partly because he couldn't stand the required diet and because he was only paid $200 (around $3,000 in 2019) per episode. Не played Supes so much, he ended up being typecast, to his great frustration. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Edgar Rice Burroughs viewed his stories the way McDonalds views Big Macs. Не read pulp fiction and figured he could churn out something just as bad, so that's what he started doing. Tarzan was one of the results. His stories recycled the same plots over and over. For Burroughs, plot was just a clothes-horse that you hung the action on. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Manhattan is probably Woody Allen's masterpiece. WOODY ALLEN DIANE KEATON MICHAEL MURPHY MARIEL HEMINGWAY MERYL STREEP ANNE BYRNE MANHATTAN. 4 MANHATTAN GEORGS GERSH-MAN It's generally considered one of the top 100 OCCO movies ever, has a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, and got two Oscar nominations. But he hates it. After its first screening, he thought it was so bad, he offered to direct another movie for free if the studio never released Manhattan. They refused. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Connery despised playing James Bond. de His exact words were, I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him. Не was so fed up that he gave his salary from the last Bond to charity. But they tempted him into another one with more money, then another after that. By that point, he thought Bond was becoming a joke of a character, and he quit for good. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sir Alec Guinness thought playing Obi-Wan Kenobi was a career low. A serious British actor, Guinness called Star Wars banal and full of mumbo-jumbo. Any Star Wars fan mail for him would be thrown out, unopened. When a boy told him he'd seen the movie 100 times, Guinness said he'd give him an autograph if he never saw it again (which made the boy cry). — Source

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CRACKED.COM Marlon Brando's most famous role embodied everything he was against. Marlon Brando loathed his character in A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski. Не had the kind of brutal aggressiveness that I hate, said Brando. Brando called himself sensitive by nature, and Kowalski being a sex symbol drove him crazy. — Source

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Robert Pattinson detests Twilight, and his character, as much as anyone. The more he read the script, the more he hated Edward Cullen, so he just decided to play him as a gigantic self-loathing mess. And he thought there's definitely something wrong with Bella for being in love with someone who had Edward's creepy serial-killer vibe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vladimir Nabokov thought Lolita should be burned. R NABOK Nabokov spent five years writing Lolita, and when it was nearly done, he put it in a box and set it on fire in his backyard. Luckily, his wife Vera saw the fire in time and managed to get most of the manuscript out. Even more luckily, she got him to finish the damn thing. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Porky Pig's directors thought he was awful. N Freleng Tashlin The first director of Porky Pig cartoons, legendary animator Friz Freleng, said Porky was a square with no depth of character. Не didn't enjoy working on Porky at all. Frank Tashlin, who directed Porky films in the '30s and '40s, said he was a terrible character whom he hated. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx wishes she never wrote it. Proulx's problem is, specifically, the reams of fanfiction she's receiving all the time. She just wants to stop getting sequels and fixed endings - so much so that she wishes she never wrote the story that keeps spawning them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King hates The Tommyknockers almost as much as he hated being addicted to cocaine. # I BESTSELLER STEPHEN KING THE TOMMYKNOCKERS VS King finds his own book awful, and blames its awfulness on the cocaine he was addicted to at the time. On the bright side, he does think the book has potential to be good... once you cut out about 350 pages from it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tony Kaye wishes he could curb-stomp American History Х. AMERICAN HISTORY X VS The studio wanted to change a lot of Kaye's cut of the film after screening it. Не re-edited the film for a year, and the final cut ended up being 40 minutes longer. Kaye felt like the movie wasn't his vision anymore, so he tried to get his name changed to Humpty Dumpty in the credits. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Creep was Radiohead's first big hit, but its members aren't huge fans. radiohead creep VS Singer Thom Yorke claims the song is crap, but guitarist Johnny Greenwood takes first place in the who hates their own song the most contest. Не disliked the song so much that he attempted to sabotage it during recording by purposely playing his guitar badly. Radiohead even refused to play Creep during any of their live performances for the longest time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The making of Alien 3 was a bitch for David Fincher. SIGOURNEY WEAVER by 1978 came from within In 1906 - was gone forever IN 1992 our worst Hears have come true. back VS ALIEN 3 I JUN 20 UP DRINK THE COUN الالك JUNER THRE IS - - - by IX NEW THE - - - - The horror movie became an actual nightmare for the then-young director. I had to work on it for two years, got fired off it three times and I had to fight for every single thing. No one hated it more than me; — Source

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Oasis member Liam Gallagher hates Wonderwall. wonderwal OOSIS VS Wonderwall is Oasis' most iconic song, but Liam Gallagher isn't a fan. In an interview, Liam shared his feelings about the song. I can't f*cking stand that f*cking song! Every time I have to sing it I want to gag. Не also says he wouldn't mind punching the fans that come up and ask him, Are you Mr. Wonderwall? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kafka wanted all his writing burned. Kafka The Metamorphosis VS Franz Kafka is regarded by many as one of the best 20th-century writers. But Kafka was not one of those many. Не burned around 90 percent of his writings, and in his will, he said that the rest was to be burned unread. The only reason we have any of it is that his friend ignored this. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Joel wasn't impressed by We Didn't Start The Fire. THE BILLY JOEL WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE B loel- (4:29) VS 73021 - Joel and - . Hero Richard del in too Terror A inc light a Nown BAX Again Moon the Woodbleck Watergate Punk SALE Rock Begin Reagan. Palestine On The Autine in ko - Alghmaistan Wheel of Fortune Salts Ride Henry Meral. Sancide Forcign Debex Monden Ven Air Crack Bernie Goets m the - . - - We Didn't Start the Fire is one of Billy Joel's biggest hits. But Billy himself didn't think the song sounded very — Source

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Claude Monet destroyed over a dozen of his iconic paintings. VS Monet's water landscape paintings were instrumental for 20th-century art, but the painter had a kind of love/hate relationship with them. In 1908, just before they were meant to be exhibited in the Durand-Ruel gallery, he destroyed at least 15 of his major works. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Harrison Ford is not fond of his cult classic Blade Runner. ON FORD BLADE RUNNER THE FINAL CUT and VS the I was very, very unhappy with their choices and with the quality of the material, recalled Ford, saying of the Director's Cut, I didn't like the movie one way or the other... I played a detective who did not have any detecting to do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warrant frontman Jani Lane really resented his biggest hit, Cherry Pie. WARRANT CHERRY PIE VS us a TRACKS The . I Saw Faith Gore Blind F Tipper & Stereo Ode in DE Love . Train Me & Train FL Idement Only Red Good Hell - Feels Bed Power OF S Sure Roses Your Rainmaker The 12 Game Mama Mr. 14 HD Ever Raised 30N OF demoi War (previously un-released The late singer said he wrote the song in one night, after the record company said they wanted a single like Aerosmith's Love In An Elevator. My legacy is 'Cherry Pie,' I'm — Source

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Joel Schumacher hates Batman and Robin just as much as anyone else. SCHWARZENEGGER CHRIS SEONGE O'DONNELL CLOONEY VS BATMAN ROBIN - THURMAN SILVERSTONE I - - - - - - - DESI JAPAN - - I JUNE GO In a 2017 Vice interview, the director took the blame for the big-budget toy commercial masquerading as a film. Не said: I want to apologize to every fan that was disappointed, because I think I owe them that. I take full responsibility. CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Blunt wants you to know that You're Beautiful isn't romantic, and you're f*cked up for liking it. VS james blunt You're Beautiful According to Blunt, the song is about a guy who's high as a f*cking kite on drugs in the subway stalking someone else's girlfriend when that guy is there in front of him, and he should be locked up or put in prison for being some kind of perv. CRACKED.COM — Source

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