In Switzerland, too, many producers indirectly hide behind Field and Co. and allocate money - or rather, when they don't. One of the standard statements of the people who approve scripts is that every film needs a sympathetic character with whom the audience can identify. Those who work according to such "rules" may canada rcs data produce a (commercial) hit now and then, but mostly a flood of interchangeable mass-produced goods. A small film market like Switzerland in particular has to stand out with something special. Scandinavian countries, as well as Great Britain and Ireland, keep creating such gems, and none of them adhere to traditional producer rules. But they are remembered.
Young Swiss authors who grow up with such films are prepared to take risks and make films that stand out. But that is of little use if this courage is not shared by those who could finance the film. And the longer the situation continues, the more the authors' courage dwindles. That is why streaming TV customers around the world like to watch productions from Norway or Denmark - but probably not from Switzerland in the long term.
By the way: Syd Field himself has not written any screenplays, apart from a few episodes of a TV show in the 1960s. Although he would have known the surefire way to a box office hit.