Mario,
Re your comment below:
> Gore Vidal thinks the auteur theory is a joke.
He
> says
> that, if an "author" is to be found in a film,
it's
> the
> screenwriter. Of course, he wrote
scripts...
Cop-novelist Gerald Petievich agrees with Vidal. He talks
about how little directors actually do in an interview he
reproduces on his website.
My own take is that the auteur theory overstates it. Film is
a collaborative medium. The director can't do anything
without a script. The script doesn't mean anything if there
aren't actors giving life to it. And none of them can do
anything without a whole army of cinematographers, editors,
technicians, etc. each contributing their own little creative
bit.
However, to the degree that the director, like the captain of
a ship, or the conductor of a symphony, puts it all together
according to his own vision, he is the main creative force
behind the film. I wouldn't go any farther than that,
though.
JIM DOHERTY
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