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In Reply to: RE: I'm a big fan and I was quite disappointed posted by halfnote on November 28, 2007 at 22:01:05
I wasn't talking about Tarantino, but the postmodern film theory of "auteurism." It is an apologetic "theory." It wasn't a theory based on merit, but an attempt by some French fanboys with a fascination for everything American to justify their fascination. "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail," Mark Twain wrote. And once the French fanboys started to look for authorial marks, they found them everywhere.
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Haven't heard of 'em.
Now, the "auteur" theory of film making, that film making reaches its artistic zenith in when it is under the control of a single artistic presence, is something I am familiar with.
And I am not surprised that some people would regard Tarantino as a film "auteur," that is, and individual who imposes a unique artistic vision on a film, as, say, the Coens, or Fellini, or Bergman, or Welles, etc.
Truffaut and the other French critics-cum-directors never called it or considered it a theory. They only had a more general idea of authorship. Andrew Sarris formulated The Theory. So the "Auteur Theory" is an American theory.
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