Post by Salzmank on Sept 13, 2017 18:28:27 GMT
It has always been my main problem with a writer-centered view of film; scripts tend to be radically different from each other, both in story and quality, and it's difficult to find any kind of consistent ethos in many screenwriters' work.
With directors, who in many cases work around the script, there are remarkable qualities which come to the forefront exactly because they didn't write the script. Intentional artistry--as much as I detest that second word!--that develops from that ever-mysterious quality, mise-en-scène: the combination of story and meaning in the director. (Heck, now I'm mystagogizing--if that's a word.)
In other words, the script is the battle-plan, the director the general who executes it.