Auteurship

By definition the auteur theory is being able to distinguish personality of a director and an auteur is someone who has a recurrent characteristic of style that reflect their worldview. As Harrington said in class, if he played a few clips by Wes Anderson everyone would know it was Wes Anderson because he has a quirky kind of style, his own style. I would say that all of the films we watched in class fit into the auteur category. The reason I say this is because you could tell in majority of the work that whoever the creator was they had their own distinct style and that they loved creating this work for people. This is very clear in Loving Vincent and even the Documentary on Norstein. In both of these films these people put their heart and souls into their projects, even if it meant it would take awhile. I was amazed by Loving Vincent, I truly didn't realize how long of a process it took them to complete. It was interesting to see how these creators really did love Vincent van Gogh and they wanted to show the world how much of an amazing person he was, all through animation/their own style. Then, in Documentary on Norstein when the viewers were able to see the studio that this man worked in, it was clear he loved what he did and he had his own style. His wife would do all of the drawings then he would assemble all of the pieces together. This is definitely a process, but when you love something you and have a vision of what you want the end results to be, you will do what you can to make things work. Without a doubt these two films embody the auteur theory and if you look at the other films you could say this about them too.