• almar_quigley@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That describes almost every director we view as great. Kubrick, Hitchcock being the worst, I’m sure I could come up with more.

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      3 months ago

      While it’s true that many great directors have/had questionable methods on set, there are also plenty that don’t/didn’t. Off the top of my head, I can’t recall bad stories about Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese or Ridley Scott.

    • Steve@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, true in many cases. The post was about Cameron so that’s the only director I’m addressing at the moment but the industry is definitely filled with people using their “art” to excuse their bad and often abusive behavior like you said. There’s a lot of very concentrated power to abuse.