Directors Who Forgot How to Direct List

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Originally Posted by sawdustandtinsel

Sadly I think the answer here is Jonathan Demme. When you think about it he was the canary in the coal mine for the current state of film culture/discourse. For anybody who was too young, he was accused of making a homophobic movie in The Silence of the Lambs and he spent the rest of his life and career apologizing for it. Somebody should write a book on his career as he clearly lost his edge as a director after that.

The problem with the argument placed here is the idea that he was involved in a number of pictures before that one, all of which were mediocre at best.

If he had a number of winners and then when down hill after tSotL I'd agree. But from my perspective that was his one hit wonder and therefore isn't really a contestant in the competition.

It should also be noted that a number of the interesting "directing" ideas actually came from other people (including Jody Foster). Of course we can give JD credit for not getting in the way of "better" ideas.