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Man the directors are utterly pathetic pieces of shit, you all hear them talk of literature, painting and poetry but NEVER fucking ever you will hear them mentioning photography or photographers, which is the closet art medium to film and it is at the very roots of film.
A film director is pretty much useless desu. For example in Tarkovsky’s case, his best films are adaptations of books. And he wrote scripts with other screenwriters. Then you have the actors, which do at least half of the job and are also authors in their own right (on Stalker, the acting is flawless and Kaidanovsky is able to convey such depth of emotion that he probably carried that film on his shoulders). The music, one of the most remarkable aspects of his films, is also written by someone else. There are people responsible for the cinematography, photography, sound design, edition. Fucking Tarkovsky just came up with general instructions most of which he could never execute. If he’d worked with different people the result would’ve been drastically different. A director is hardly an author yet the film is attributed to him. I’m not saying collaboration is bad but the cult of the film director seems ridiculous. Fuck these hacks.
These pathetic scum plagiarise photographers without any push back whatsoever. For example pic related is by Harry Callahan
