So in light of the furor over comments made by Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card's comments on homosexuality, I pose a question to you all. If you could separate one piece of work from it's creator what would it be?
Plus it'd be nice if you could give a reason. Off the top of my head, reasons you might want to do this include:
The creator's personal views taint the work (See above).
A piece the creator produced you feel is a misstep and you want to give them a mulligan.
An otherwise mediocre creator has one exceptional piece you'd like to imagine was the sole work of another artist (what we'll call the M. Night Shyamalan Effect).
Or whatever reasons you can think off, just argue your case.
A couple of quick rules:
The piece of work stays the same, it just has a different creator, so just because you don't like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, doesn't mean that in this scenario, taking away Lucas or Spielberg will result in a new film, it just means they're no longer responsible.
Has to be one individual piece of work, so you can't get rid of all three Star Wars Prequels, unless you want to get rid of Star Wars entirely from George Lucas's Resumé. So even if you make it so Lucas didn't make Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, he'd still have made the other two.
And any side benefits that might have resulted from an individual work stick with them. So if George Lucas never makes Star Wars (man is he coming out of this poorly) he still founds Lucasfilms and Industrial Light and Magic, so you don't get to take those away from him.
Plus it'd be nice if you could give a reason. Off the top of my head, reasons you might want to do this include:
The creator's personal views taint the work (See above).
A piece the creator produced you feel is a misstep and you want to give them a mulligan.
An otherwise mediocre creator has one exceptional piece you'd like to imagine was the sole work of another artist (what we'll call the M. Night Shyamalan Effect).
Or whatever reasons you can think off, just argue your case.
A couple of quick rules:
The piece of work stays the same, it just has a different creator, so just because you don't like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, doesn't mean that in this scenario, taking away Lucas or Spielberg will result in a new film, it just means they're no longer responsible.
Has to be one individual piece of work, so you can't get rid of all three Star Wars Prequels, unless you want to get rid of Star Wars entirely from George Lucas's Resumé. So even if you make it so Lucas didn't make Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, he'd still have made the other two.
And any side benefits that might have resulted from an individual work stick with them. So if George Lucas never makes Star Wars (man is he coming out of this poorly) he still founds Lucasfilms and Industrial Light and Magic, so you don't get to take those away from him.