Auteur Directing & Non Auteur Directing

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Jeez, razerfish; way to take a personal experience and assume it's universal.

Personally, I've never found writing to be particularly difficult.
 
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rezerfish, you can write me a script for a feature film and i'll direct/edit it no problem. but the question is...who's going to watch it? (probably just a bunch of friends and perhaps some people who can relate to the film) But, if it's going to be directed by Steven Spielberg, it's totally different story. you get the point? Directors have the X-factor. You can write a speech and if you made the speech yourself in front of a thousand audience, the impact wouldn't be the same as suppose to having Martin Luther King Jr. say it.
A good director also have the ability to motivate, inspire, and encourage the whole cast. of which writers doesn't necessarily have to have in order to write.
so...it's not just simply directing why they get the "a film by" title. it's the respect they have earned over the years of proving themselves.

Picasso have painted a line drawing of a square and it was sold for $40 million dollars. if that was just anyone else...i doubt it would be sold at all.
 
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So auteur-status is achieved by box-office value...?
 
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this is why i find charlie kaufman amazing. for the first time in a long while i hear people say 'what's eternal sunshing...' 'oh it's the new film by the guy who did ' being john malchovich.' " His script are so unique that they define the film.
 
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I share razerfish's distaste for the 'film by' credit.

I always had this fanstasy of ending a film with a credit roll titled "A Film By" followed by the names of the full cast and crew, in alphabetical order.

Yeah. Like that will ever fly...

actually, Our Song did this. It made me laugh out loud. First slide of the film. REALLY good movie too.

To me, if a director says 'film by' and they did not write it...well that is a bit arrogant. It's their decision, but the writer does not get enough respect. It's been said a million times but a good director can make an average script great - but it is very tough to make a bad script good. I mean, really, written by and directed by are the perfect credits - fair and descriptive. Unless they write the film as well - then film by could be applicable i think.
 
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I don't think the director needs to write the film for it to be an 'auteur' film, I just think that the director needs to be the main creative influence in the film. Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick are all great examples of "auters," and 2001, Citizen Kane and Vertigo are all "auteur" films. Casablanca is a great example of a classic film that is not an "auteur" film, since its greatness lies in the story and the acting moreso than Curtiz's directing.
 
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So an auteur is someone whose films you can always look at, without seeing their name on it, and say, "Hey, I bet I know who directed that!"

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[quote author=Sad Max link=board=Directing;num=1106543010;start=15#26 date=02/01/05 at 12:22:25]So an auteur is someone whose films you can always look at, without seeing their name on it, and say, "Hey, I bet I know who directed that!"

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Yes.
 
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The conflict between writing and directing is a phantom one. In writing and directing one faces the question first, "What do I want to say?" Then, "How do I want to say it?" Giving out credit is important for determining who gets paid what, but that's about all.
 
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When the writer and director are two different people with entirely different ideas of what story - and what kind of story - they want to tell, the differences are a whole lot worse than "phantom..."
 
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[quote author=Woodson link=board=Directing;num=1106543010;start=15#27 date=02/01/05 at 12:33:33]


Yes. [/quote]

That works.
 
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