We consider some of the filmmakers who have had the most versatile and strange directing careers in cinema.
They are the ones who become the author of the movie youre watching.
The more ideas or images that rhyme, the potentially more impressive theauteurs command over the medium becomes.
Here are some exactly such helmers.
One might even say that Millers still tangible fingerprints on the finished film belie flaws in auteur theory.
Miller has indeed made five (and counting?
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is most interested in capturing our nobler instincts with vivid and muscular camera compositions.
Mad Maxs father is a fuzzy humanist at heart!
Both of which are heavy influences to this day on films likePirates of the CaribbeanandStar Wars.
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The genre or tone can change, but you always knew when you were hearing a Hawks character speak.
He also madeNorthin that timeframe, but nobodys perfect.
Imagine what a sensitive and original voice to cinema we would have lost if he gave up.
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Billy Wilder
One more Hollywood stalwart wed be remiss to ignore is Billy Wilder.
He also invented the modern dramedy about sex and life in the big city viaThe Apartment(1960).
Meanwhile he had time to do cynical World War II thrillers likeStalag 17(1953).
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Serving asa semi-documentarianin the field had a profound effect on Stevens interests and styles.
They have good reason, as Sir Ridley obviously enjoys making them.
Others leave something to be desired, a laRobin Hood(2010) andNapoleon(2023).
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All are visually sumptuous.
But those are not the beginning and end of Scotts talent.
He even can channel that same talent as a force for optimism, henceThe Martian(2015).
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Steven Spielberg
I was hesitant about includingSteven Spielbergon this list.
But this is also the man who releasedJurassic ParkandSchindlers Listin the same year!
(1993, for the record).
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That alone offers a microcosm of Spielbergs versatility.
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