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A director in many ways is just a curator - assembling the right artists who they feel will be capable of recognising and contributing to a stated sensibility.
by l33tbro 6y ago
A director in many ways is just a curator - assembling the right artists who they feel will be capable of recognising and contributing to a stated sensibility. Establishing and empowering those artists, while, simultaneously, ensuring the thematic and aesthetic coherency of the finished work is the craft.
Fincher's technical acumen and understanding of screen performance is exceptional. While his work can be hit or miss (just my opinion), he is almost inarguably one of the finest directors to practice in this medium of all time.
- pas 6y agoSo ... how do producers factor into this? Isn't the production team that brings in the artists? Or they try to bring in the artists that the director wishes? Or the director has a soft veto during casting?
- megameter 6y agoProducers are the more influential overall, in terms of the business metrics(budget, schedule, box office). They get to make a lot of key decisions, if only through vetos. What a director does is more akin to structuring the day-to-day focus. A director who has taken to relaxing intent on some broad aspects of the production is going to have a smoother production, be more agreeable, be easy to hire again. But a director who is more stringent may deliver a product that coheres better. It's a kind of balancing act on the part of the producer to not end up with a staff full of prima donnas fighting for control and wasting money through indecision and résumé-driven development.