This is my first blog on here. I have written blogs on myspace and notes on Facebook, but I wasn't really quite feeling it. I am only going to used this to talk about what I love talking which is films. It will consist of just talking maybe film history or just about films in general.This is my first one and will be about the term: Auteurs. It is something that some of us film nerds talk about. If you don't know about the term read on. It will be a little lesson on film. Have a good read.
The term auteurs is used to describe film directors who has a distinct style. They normally return to the same subject matter, or moral theme. The film director would have a recurring visuals and aesthetic style. You can normally recognize a film director style regardless of genres they choose. The film directors who from this point on will just says auteurs is the author of their work. No matter what studio interference their visual style still shows. The autuers puts their stamps on the film. It is familar to the average filmgoers. Some filmgoers goes to the movies just the see that auteurs work, no matter what the film is about. It is the visual style of that autuers that the viewer loves. Most directors are autuers even to the crappy filmmakers like Michael Bay to the best filmmakers like Martin Scorsese. I can really goes on with the list of crappy and good filmmakers, but that is for another day. In theory or at least in law, the autuer is the creater of a film as a work of art is the copyright holder to it, but since studios pretty much rape the directors it is not that way anymore.
The auteurs theory was mostly used by the directors of the New wave in French cinema in the 60's to describe their intensely personal and what some people would call weird films. Around the same time that francos Truffaut was writing the essay, " A certain tendency in French Cinema", the Hollywood studio systems was falling apart. It is was around the same time more of the sort of films that Truffaut admired started to get made. the actual term the auteur theory came from an essay by Andrew Sarris. According to Sarris to be considered as an auteur you must show the technical competence in their technique, personal style in terms on how the film feels, looks, and the interior meaning. Sarris had later in the decade published "The Americam Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 which in so many words became the bible of auteurism.
There was some critcism of the auteur theory from screenwriters to critcs. They didn't believe that the film directors have more authorial than screenwriters. People would say that it is a group effort to make films which it is. I believe that the film director do get the people to help realize his or her c=vison to the screen, but isn't it the directors who sometimes get blame if the movie fails at the box office. They don't blame the D.P or camera operator. They blame the director. When the film have a vision of how the film should be made, isn't they are the ones who are responsible for the look and feel of the film. What if the director is the screenwriter? the director in him is probably going to change what on the page from the screen. The director works with the director of photography to make sure he get the look of the film right on how the director evisioned the film. The screenplay is always worked on to fix the director sensibilities. Imagine if Quentin Tarantino directed "Transformers", it probably would have been ten times better. it would have been more character driven and story. i think as an film director who the auteur have to make the film his no matter if it isn't the project he started from the beginning of the scriptwirting stage. there is still a lot film directors who truly are auteurs to the accurate sense of the word. The list goes as follows: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, David Gordan Green, Terrance Malik, Steven Soderbergh, Tim Burton and etc. You will recognize their work when you sees their films.
I just wanted to write about something I love talking about which is films. Filmmaking is something that I am wanting to do as a career. I hope I can reach my goal one day. Until then, watch some good movies. I know I am going to watch the Seventh Seal after I am off of here. Take care and thank you for reading.
