by Zack Beauchamp
Auteur theory claims "that a director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision." Tim Cavanaugh thinks no one person can claim credit for creating on-screen fictional worlds:
What we really need is a death-of-the-auteur theory. Making a movie is such a crap shoot, involving so many parties with conflicting motives, that we should consider it a fluke when something gets made that holds together as well as My Cousin Vinny. An actual masterpiece (whatever your choice of masterpiece may be) has to be considered a heroically improbable event, and one that depends on both the movie itself and the audience’s response to it.
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