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Because directors have a union...ok actually a guild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of
by brudgers 4y ago
Because directors have a union...ok actually a guild.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America
Movie credits for normal Hollywood productions are all contractually specified in terms of listing order, inclusion, and technical aspects.
Non-Hollywood type productions can tend to follow the norm simply because it is the norm and probably because it is sort of what audiences expect and because the collaborative nature of movies means that bucking the system is likely to make people not want to work with/for you...who wants to argue with someone over whether to include the key-grip or if the screen writer should come before or after the supporting actors?
- aasasd 4y agoEh, note how the public don't really know directors on producer-led films where the director is a hired hand, if they don't have a name already. Same on TV, where directors easily circulate each episode, and even famous ones disappear into the overall production. The credits don't do much in these cases. E.g. I know who Alfonso Cuarón is, but thankfully forgot who's the director on the extreme bore-fest of the first two Potter films and the other guy on the featureless last half-dozen films.
- Bayart 4y agoThe entire studio culture that rationalized cinema as a production line for entertainment comes from Hollywood. "Authorism" has more to do with European cinema.
- dwd 4y agoGeorge Lucas was embroiled in a legal battle with and quit the guild when they objected to Irvin Kershner not getting the director's credit for Empire Strikes Back in the opening sequence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back#Credits_and_title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back#Credit...