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 More options Jun 11 2004, 1:31 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films
From: dober...@DROPsocal.rr.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:31:01 GMT
Local: Fri, Jun 11 2004 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: how come we still talk primarily about directors?

symphonic...@hotmail.com (choral reef) wrote:
>some people are more partial to 'auteur theory' than others.  some
>reject it passionately.
>yet, all of us still talk of the director as being the primary
>artistic force behind movies.

>for instance, like LOR or not, we generally discuss it as the
>visionary creation of peter jackson.  few, if any, have mentioned the
>writers, editor, cameraman, CGI geeks, etc by name.

Most of us probably just refer to the director as a metonymic (or
synecdochic) shortcut; it's for the sake of convenience.

>but shouldn't anti-auteurists call this figure a
>prodiractortographeditorgaffer?

Well, now. . . in a long career of unusual suggestions, you've really
outdone yourself there!

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