Me: La politique des auteurs, the auteur theory, states that a director can ascend from the status of a mere technician to one of an artist, called an auteur, if they show a consistency in style & theme. An auteur is somebody with the power to create a good film out of a mediocre or even a bad script, whereas a director who simply exists as a cog in the machine of production, a metteur-en-scene, can only ever create a mediocre or bad film from a mediocre or bad script.
I believe David Cronenberg fits the profile of 'auteur'.
Projector: Photos of David Cronenberg looking unassuming & Canadian.
Me: David Cronenberg, at first meeting, is an unassuming, polite & quietly intelligent Canadian film director with a sparkling wit & piercing eyes, yet esteemed fellow director Martin Scorsese was initially terrified to meet the mild-mannered 'king of venereal horror'. Why is this? What could possibly fill the creator of Taxi Driver with fear?
Projector: show clips from various scary bits from his films.
Me:The answer clearly lies within the flesh of his films. People confuse you with your work, & Cronenberg has certainly been a victim of this, but for good reason. His films are consistently graphic & disturbing, probing into areas often unexplored by other high-quality directors & leaving audiences & censors confused & outraged.
Projector: notes from item 7
Me: These are some of the opinions expressed by unwitting members of the public after they were shown Cronenberg's 1983 body horror masterpiece 'Videodrome'
I believe David Cronenberg fits the profile of 'auteur'.
Projector: Photos of David Cronenberg looking unassuming & Canadian.
Me: David Cronenberg, at first meeting, is an unassuming, polite & quietly intelligent Canadian film director with a sparkling wit & piercing eyes, yet esteemed fellow director Martin Scorsese was initially terrified to meet the mild-mannered 'king of venereal horror'. Why is this? What could possibly fill the creator of Taxi Driver with fear?
Projector: show clips from various scary bits from his films.
Me:The answer clearly lies within the flesh of his films. People confuse you with your work, & Cronenberg has certainly been a victim of this, but for good reason. His films are consistently graphic & disturbing, probing into areas often unexplored by other high-quality directors & leaving audiences & censors confused & outraged.
Projector: notes from item 7
Me: These are some of the opinions expressed by unwitting members of the public after they were shown Cronenberg's 1983 body horror masterpiece 'Videodrome'
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