Films/DVD Asylum

I think these directors...

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In Reply to: RE: You must have a long attention span or.... posted by grhughes on February 16, 2008 at 09:55:53

...grew more and more frustrated dealing with all the levels of machinery and control exerted by the studios, really the only entities that could finance the kinds of films they wanted to make, on the scale they wanted to make them.

I suspect the gap between the visions they saw in their heads, and what they were able to actually get onto the screen, just exacerbated their tendencies to perfectionism, procrastination and obsession.

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Yes, so much so that FRIENDS deserted each other... - grhughes 12:29:07 02/23/08 (0)
...John Box deserting leaving Lean in the South Pacific. Robert Bolt deserting him and having a stroke. Lean wanted to make films in areas where things cost 4 times as much and then take two years to do it. His perfectionism just got the best of him. When you get all that talent in one place and everything necessary to make a film you can't wait for the cloud formations to be "right". But that was Lean. Or so that's what his biography leads one to believe. Ray Hughes

"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey

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