I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.
Flops lose studios insane amounts of money. Flops have irrevocably hurt the careers of filmmakers and actors, with the bewildering exception of John Travolta. (…)
A big enough bomb can have a permanent, negative impact not just on someone’s career, but on the entire film industry: Michael Cimino’s notorious 1980 flop “Heaven’s Gate” was so expensive ($44 million, a fortune at the time) and disastrous (earning almost nothing back) it essentially bankrupted United Artists. It only took one flop for Cimino, fresh from winning best picture and best director Oscars for “The Deer Hunter,” to go from the hottest filmmaker in Hollywood to persona non grata. Cimino’s career never really recovered; he hasn’t directed a film since 1996’s “The Sunchaser” and today is a veritable recluse.
So it might seem surprising, or even perverse, to suggest that there’s something redeeming about flops — even, in fact, that we need them. (…)
An era’s great flops serve countless functions in pushing the art and industry of filmmaking forward. They introduce technological innovations. They help filmmakers and actors — those that manage to work again, at least — learn how to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. And for the people involved in them, flops are something more than a wake-up call: They can even rescue a career.
