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This 6 page paper discusses the theory of auteur and examines two filmmakers: Kurosawa and Von Triers in their movies: Seven Samurai and The Idiots. Bibilography lists 4 sources.
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is it the product of the directors creativity? One must make note of the fact that in nearly every movie ever made, the movie is attributed to the director, not
the screenwriter, nor the producer. Therefore, even where art cinema is concerned, the concept of the auteur is alive and well. Fran?ois Truffaut expressed in his 1954 essay Une certaine
tendance du cin?ma fran?ais, that film, ideally, is a medium of personal expression for the director, whom, for that reason, was to be regarded as an auteur, or author. Given
this, then, one may be able to gain additional insight into the films construction by understanding the vision and personality of the director. Thematically, viewing a film through the criteria
of the auteur may be the more succinct way of interpreting the films true meaning and vision. This analysis would also lend to a less complicated understanding of a directors
use of various techniques and stylistic choices. A good example would be the films of Akira Kurosawa. His Seven Samurai movie was not only successful in Japan, its native
country, but was one of the most seen international films. Kurosawa could have fallen into so many traps with this film, stylistically and thematically. Because this story revolves around Samurai
it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterization could be sacrificed. One of the things
that Kurosawa seems to have done to circumnavigate this potential problem was to increase the movies length. The action becomes secondary to the deeply moving human interest storyline. This film
tells the tale of seven unemployed samurai who are hired by a small village to protect them from marauding bandits. His works are classically humanist stories set in stark surroundings.
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