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* During the "[[New Hollywood]]" of 1970s cinema, the star power of directors like [[Francis Ford Coppola]] (who became a star with ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''), Michael Cimino (''[[The Deer Hunter]]''), [[Martin Scorsese]] (''Mean Streets'', ''[[Taxi Driver]]''), and [[Dennis Hopper]] (''[[Easy Rider]]'') all saw them [[Follow Up Failure|follow up with flops]], most being of the mega variety, due to studio execs leaving them alone in their creations -- Coppola tanked with lavish romance-musical ''One From The Heart'', Cimino with the disastrous [[The Western|Western]] epic ''[[Heavens Gate|Heaven's Gate]]'', Scorsese with the dark musical ''New York, New York'', and Dennis Hopper with the widely-derided ''The Last Movie''. Some of these films were such grand disasters that they almost [[Creator Killer|destroyed the careers of their creators]] (and, in the case of ''Heaven's Gate'', bankrupted entire film studios), and led to a backlash that saw the executives [[Blockbuster Age of Hollywood|firmly back in control]] by [[The Eighties]].