'The Director is Always The Most Important Influence on a Film.' Compare how far your two chosen films support the statement.
'The Director is Always The Most Important Influence on a Film.' Compare how far your two chosen films support the statement. A director tends to be the most important role working on a film, as they are the ones who control actors/actresses, the sound technicians, cinematographers etc. And so they are the obvious choice on who has "made" the film in terms of creative control and endeavour, so we can call said director an Auteur. Auteur derives from the French word "author" and was coined by Andrew Sarris in 1962, but had been discussed decades before with the French magazine "Cahiers Du Cinema" by Andre Bazin and Francois Truffaut, who were directors of the French New Wave. The theory states that the director is the "author" of the film as they are the ones who have the most control, much like an author who is in control of the pen, this concept of the "camera-stylo" was introduced by Alexandre Astruc in 1948. Returning to
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