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(Rescued from deletion on meta.) 00:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
How to write about film:
(I quite agree. An article in (I think) w:Sight and Sound pointed out that if you take this "auteur" theory too far we'll end up describing Police Academy: Mission To Moscow as "an Alan Metter film". – w:user:Mswake)
A reader may ask then "what does a director do?" The answer is "it varies." It is safe, however, to assume that a director does the following three things: a director says "action" (indicating that filming of a take will now start); a director says "cut" (indicating that filming of a take will now stop); a director says "print" (indicating that there is something about the take that they wish to keep, for instance to compare against another take, to use in the film, or to put on the blooper reel). (When the director gets to full of their-own-self, fire them and do it yourself.)