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| Richard Curtis |
DEFINITION
- The director has a distinctive style (like Tarantino)
- They tackle social issues
- Assumption that the director is the creator (ignores the editor and writer etc.)
RICHARD CURTIS (A COUNTER EXAMPLE?)
Screenwriter, film director, film producer, television producer.
Known for Love Actually (2003), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and About Time (2013). Associated with a subsidiary of a big 5 conglomerate NBC-Universal. Very successful in commercial terms - his movies don't usually get critically acclaimed!
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Has a distinctive style. Typically rom-coms (hybrid) with white, middle class, southern English actors. Doesn't tackle social issues such as racism, sexism, poverty etc. but arguably disguises it therefore he is not considered an auteur.
However... he's known for working with a mainly female centred genre. Just as is the case with others such as soap operas and women's magazines, this is considered "trashy".
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SHANE MEADOWS
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| Shane Meadows |
Director, screenwriter, actor.
Known for Dead Man's Shoes (2004), This Is England (2006) and TwentyFourSeven (1997). Associated with an Indie company, Warp.
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Has a very distinctive style. Mainly social realism genre with characters with different representations - e.g. working class, northern English. Tackles racism, mental health and poverty.
- fits definition
- warp minimal box office
- win lots of awards
- flawed and complex protagonist who by the end you sympathise with
- low budget
- racism, mental health, poverty all included
- actors with different accents and races
- social realism genre
- Dead Man's Shoes - hybrid - psychological thriller and social realist
