Michael Cimino is comparable to many modern directors in that he was handed a massive project very early in his career, which used to be very unusual but seems more common now. But do the directors on contemporary big-budget movies have very much power? I assume that they don't. They have to do alot of coverage shots so that it's harder for director to force editors to cut to the movie they were trying to shoot, and that plus huge CGI spectacle puts alot more on post-production. The people who are responsible for financial disasters are probably higher up the food chain than they used to be. Does that sound right, or am I missing something?
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