re: TLJ may have been close to 3.5 hours long originally

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What a wasteful way to make a movie.

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That's usually how most do it.

Eastwood is probably the only director who is like okay, one take...storyboard, lets go. Actor: Sorry, I didn't feel right about my scene there. Eastwood: Who cares, it's in the can we're moving on.

Cimino and Coppalla apparently shot ungodly amount of film for Deer Hunter and Apocolypse Now.

This is back when Directors had unfettered freedom and wasted a lot of money being auteurs.

You can't go over budget by 100% these days like Ciminio did in Heaven's Gate without repurcussions.

But Directors still need to shoot a more film than bare bones, you never know what's going to work.