I think this is true of pretty much all creatives. Just a little bit of fencing forces the creativity to take shape with measured purpose, such that it creates something rather than flailing uncontrolledly.
Snyder and Gunn are both examples. Apparently the Gunn verse test screenings are doing horribly. He did great under Disney who gave him parameters but a sandbox to play with in those parameters. And Snyder visually makes great shit. But he's also like a kid with a million ideas who uses every toy in his toy box. What if we had zombies and a bank heist and zombie babies and a zombie tiger AND a nuclear bomb.
Lucas was always trying to use the whills as the people writing this down, iirc with 3po and r2d2 being the ones telling it to them.
He was best when he was reigned in some.
I think this is true of pretty much all creatives. Just a little bit of fencing forces the creativity to take shape with measured purpose, such that it creates something rather than flailing uncontrolledly.
Creatives need at least one massive asshole pragmatic to rein them in. Otherwise you get modern Hollywood.
Snyder and Gunn are both examples. Apparently the Gunn verse test screenings are doing horribly. He did great under Disney who gave him parameters but a sandbox to play with in those parameters. And Snyder visually makes great shit. But he's also like a kid with a million ideas who uses every toy in his toy box. What if we had zombies and a bank heist and zombie babies and a zombie tiger AND a nuclear bomb.