Normally I side with directors, but....

I love reading about movies and watching documentaries about the making of movies and so on. And u hear the same story over and over again. Producers screwing up the directors vision because of concerns over censorship and budget and what not. Look at what happened with Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time In America. Or Sam Peckinph's The Wild Bunch. Kubricks Lolita, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Orson Well's....pretty much everything he did after Citizen Kane. All screwed up by producer interference. And if directors cuts have taught us anything, it's that producers should let the directors make the movies the way they want. But to be fair tgat doesn't always work. Michael Cimmino was giving Carte Blanche on Heavens Gate and he made a movie that was unwatchable and just about bankrupted its studio. The point is when I hear about problems arising in movies between producers and directors I try to be openminded and fair to both sides. And while I still usually side with directors I got to say in this instance I think the producers were right. It seemed like Stanly was cracking up. I mean did I hear about the sex scene he planned with the cat woman with six breasts. Yeah.... I don't think his vision would have connected with an audience