Essays on Auteur

The cinematic medium of aesthetic expression has come to gain the strongest footing in the hierarchy of artistic works across the entire world in the present times. Stalwart filmmakers and their quintessential works have come to gain the accolades of the world’s audience as well as the scholarly film critics. Lars von Trier is surely one of the most acclaimed directors in the history of cinema. The filmmaker has left a mark on the realm of cinema with his unique style and portrayal. It is truly intriguing to note how Lars von Trier uses the cinematic techniques and ...

Introduction

The world of art has always been driven by an immortal tradition where the sole artist worked as the creative force and his relationship with the art was way more influential than the traditional author-art relation. In the case of films, the concept of the ‘Auteur’ explains one of the most significant styles of cinematic direction in which the director becomes too dominant over the entire film that he is being ranked as the author for the film. Some directors in the world cinema are reckoned to have such a strong authorial presence in their films that is very ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese

Introduction

A film is a story or an event that is a set of moving images or motion pictures and is shown in theater or on television. Films always portray different messages in them depending on the subject topic. The message they portray or carry mainly depend on the plot, setting of the movie and the role the different characters take up in the film or movie. The intent of the film is always in the main theme and this is always the beneficial part of the film to the viewers or the consumers (Merritt ...

The cinematography is one of the greatest arts. It combines the elements of literature, theater, music, painting, architecture, ballet, etc. As a result of the synthesis of the traditional arts appears a new type of the art - film. Despite the fact that the cinematography is a relatively young kind of the art, it has already become extremely valuable for us. Moreover, it is simply impossible to imagine our lives without movies! After all, we are accompanied by them from the early childhood. Of course, cinematic preferences of a person may change, but it is also worth noting that ...

Shot in 1997 by Takeshi Kitano, Hana-bi is a Japanese motion picture whose success reached the international level. Translated as “Fireworks” for the US release, the film brought fame to Takeshi Kitano and made him a recognizable director outside of Japan. Though the film’s storyline can hardly be called innovative, the Asian approach and view of life found the international critical acclaim and brought the director numerous prestigious nominations and awards. Hana-bi’s artistic and intertextual codes are still admired by the contemporary audience in spite of the fact that the film was released almost twenty years ago. ...

The role of the auteur is that of a filmmaker whose unique artistic vision pervades all aspects of the project. The film effectively becomes their baby, and the work as a whole is indicative of their stamp. While film is a collaborative effort, the auteur crafts the work towards his vision, which in turn guides the production toward its artistic goals. In the case of the 2003 film Adaptation, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is the auteur, as the entire project is geared toward his unique artistic vision. Adaptation is a very loose adaptation of Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief, an autobiographical novel about ...