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Alright, now this might sound silly at first, but it really made me think for some time.
Say there was a young man (ahem... or a young lady), however young you want him/her to be. And this person was pretty much a creative genious when it comes to filmmaking.
Let me explain. This person can just put it all together in his mind. He sees every shot and every perfect note of the score. Say this person never made movies before.
I'm not saying it would be easy for him to become a director, it'd be just as hard for him as anyone. But my question is this:
Can a director get so much freedom in makin and producing his film that he acctually gets to write, direct, edit, make the trailer, do almost everything on a movie? Pretty much, anything you see and hear on the screen, is because the director said it'd be that way.
Are there not people like that?
PS. Please do not mock me.
-Ivan
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I'm not really sure what you're getting at, but when it comes to film production, I find myself and the wheel for everything. I do the directing, the DOPing, the editing, the music, the script writing, the stunts etc... my friends just act and lend some ideas.
Mods
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How about Vincent Gallo.
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For big epic movies I suppose it doesn't exist. For little private projects I suppose the more you can do, the less you have to fork out of your own pocket to pay others. But I suppose there are the inbetween Directors who like to get invovled with everything which you would think he would anyway.
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Yes what you are describing are certain, in fact many independent filmmakers.
It one of the joys of being independent. The downside is finding the funding to make the film everything you want it to be and then finding a way to sell the film.
On a side note. Most filmmakers are creative genius'. Or so they think. The difficult part is getting what's in your head onto the screen. It's not as easy as many may think. For me personally it's very difficult. In fact 99 percent of the time it never happens the way I see it in my head. But still the film can turn out good either way.
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Ahhh, but NO! I did indeed mean a director who is working with high budgets. He gets his films released in theatres. MAybe not in a lot but he's still famous.
Could thisman seriously make films the way he wants to without someone hacking it to pieces?
-Ivan
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how can he be a creative genious film maker if hes never made a film / /
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For somebody to give him a large budget the film would have to be commercially viable (with all the negatives which that entails). It's called business sense.
[This message has been edited by twister! (edited January 02, 2002).]
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I hate bein disappointed by posts like these.... only because I thought the subject was DEEP THROAT
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ROFL Itch.
Gallo is a great example. He wrote, produced, directed, composed the score for, and starred in Buffalo 66. (66 of 67? I forget now.) That movie was great.
Rodriguez doesn't use a second crew, he shoots almost all of it himself, writes and directs it, yadda yadda.
That can work, but that can also screw a film. But then you take Michael Mann, and he wrote, directed, and paid for Heat, and there was no one to tell him it sucked. He's writing and paying for it, he doesn't have to listen to anybody. And if his vision is crappy crap, that can be a bad thing.
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