Star Wars

[Smitty-48]

In 1977, corporations were willing to let a guy make a film that was different, and not what was standard. That won't happen today.

they weren't actually willing to make it, Lucas pitched it to the studios, and they all turned him down except 20th Century Fox

most studios saw it as some sort of Flash Gordon reboot, so they thought it was a losing bet

it was just one guy, Alan Ladd, who was a fan of American Graffiti, he gave the green light

True on the specifics. To develop my point finer though. There are a lot of films made in the 70s that would never get made today like Blazing Saddles.

whatever, but the corporations were not different in the 1970's, that's a false narrative of the 1970's

you are invoking a nostalgia for an America that never was /shrugs