Steven Spielberg may be a master auteur, but even he is not immune to movie flops.
Blowing up the bridge in "Indiana Jones" For Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, the master auteur, had something of a crash course in the interdependent working relationship between a director and the studio quite early in his career. Despite his natural expertise and ingrained talent for producing cinematic masterpieces, Spielberg is not entirely immune to box office failures.
The director of the aquatic thriller Jaws and the sci-fi alien film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, had been riding the wave of success and fame far too long to realize that without studio involvement, a project can sometimes also go downhill. And Spielberg was quick to know that on the night of the 1941 premiere.
No studio production goes into the final theatrical production without the absolute involvement of the senior executives. Today's Hollywood is completely governed by the principle of equal collaboration between the costumes and the creatives. However, this was not the case during Steven Spielberg's New Hollywood era of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
