Q: "Gee, Denis, why is it again you don't really want to work in film?"
A: "I'm not really interested in wading into a 50 year old argument."
BTW, I would have to say that The Departed was really the first film I've seen in I can't remember how long that was worth 14 bucks. (Price of a movie ticket in T.O. now)
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'Departed' did rock, yes.
But $14.00...whew.
I rather enjoyed "Prestige' also, though not as much as 'Departed', but I am still in $9.00 a movie land, so considered it worth it.
Ratner seems like quite the auteur, at least that's what he tells everyone...so it must be true.
Don't grumble. Based on the current exchange rates, to watch a movie in London's "glittering" West End (with a decent screen and sound) can cost just over $25 Canadian.
I've always thought that the real rival for the director to the auteur title is the producer. The screenwriter of a movie is somewhat akin to the person who writes a script for a TV show but doesn't run the show: he's doing a very important creative job, but he's writing to someone else's specifications, and the final vision isn't really his (except in very rare cases like Paddy Chayefsky or Jacques Prevert, guys who really did get to tell the directors how to film their scripts). In TV the auteur is usually the showrunner; in movies it's whoever has the most creative control over the project -- but that can just as easily be the producer as the director, especially in Old Hollywood where producers often originated projects, supervised the scriptwriters and more or less told the directors how to do their jobs.
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