The auteur basically means that the director has absolute control over everything. The lighting, the story, the clothes, every aspect of the film. They strive to create something absolutely original, they often start the conventions of genre, but do not follow them. For this first film theory lecture we looked at Alfred Hitchcock, he's probably the best example of an auteur, a genius in film making. Everything he does is just brilliant, he was born to do this.
He had a great style did Hitchcock, dark and twisted, he liked to put absolute fear into every person who watched his film (even little children cause he was scared of them)
He had sort of a signature in his films where he would always have the victim as a blonde woman, even if the woman started off with brown or black hair and transformed into a woman with blonde hair, the way he did it was just amazing. I recommend watching Vertigo the special effects used in it for the time (dolly zoom, subjective camera shots etc...)
He also used Voyeurism which is using colour to express something in the film, like in vertigo he uses the colour green to show the link between madeline and Judy. Everything the auteur does is for a reason.
Here's a video we were shown in the lecture it just shows how involved and creative the auteur is, personally i think Hitchcock knew what he was on about and created some monumental films that will never be forgotton. Film's today are just made to make money most directors just want a hit and pay day, there's not a lot of directors that care about the film over the money.
Bring back the auteur!
Here's my notes from the lecture-
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