Left to his own devices
Lee Daniels makes films that are eccentric and sometimes just way the hell out there. (
The Paperboy) But he has called his newest film,
The Butler, "a big compromise" and
explained that the film might be "the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire." Does that mean that, on the relative scale of whackadoo films,
The Butler will be far closer to "normal" than anything else ...