Post by dazz on Jun 25, 2019 17:07:42 GMT
Hee hee hee...
My take on all of this is live and let die. Seriously, if you want to believe this movie is more than the heaping pile of trash that it is, you can churn out "think pieces" on it until your hands fall off for all I care.
Fox purposefully hired an inexperienced director because they knew they could bully him into making whatever movie they wanted. They let him thinks he was making a quiet, psychologically complex, character study when in reality they wanted a four-quadrant blockbuster. That is why the budget was set at $170 M and not something like $70 M.
It sounds like West was utterly spineless in the process, complaining intermittently when the studio decided to go against his vision but, quickly agreeing to extensive reshoots and story modifications. He either had no vision for this film or was too gutless to fight for its proper execution.