> "All them eager actors / gladly taking credit / For the lines created / by the people tucked away from sight"
These days, in the sway of the auteur theory, it's more the director taking credit for the whole show, at least in the minds of critics.
Apparently, movies need authors, and the director was chosen as being authorial. Movies with one author (The Room) are seen as being better than movies which were collaborations (Citizen Kane) as the former are more tractable to the modern critical theories.
These days, in the sway of the auteur theory, it's more the director taking credit for the whole show, at least in the minds of critics.
Apparently, movies need authors, and the director was chosen as being authorial. Movies with one author (The Room) are seen as being better than movies which were collaborations (Citizen Kane) as the former are more tractable to the modern critical theories.