Role Allocation

I am working as a individual so i will be an auteur.

An auteur theory was made in the 1950s and it reflects the directors personal creation vision. A famous auteur is the director James Whale from the early horror movies from the 1930s. He was famous for films such as Frankenstein, the old dark house and the invisible man. He was born in Dudley in 1889. He realized he had a passion for drama when he became a British officer in the army and was a prisoner of war. In the film Frankenstein he was very ahead of his times and it was one controversial scene in which the monster throws a young girl into the water and she drowns. This is bad now a days and to an audience in 1930 this was an outrage but this is what he wanted and he got his own way. He was brought back to do the bride of Frankenstein and wanted full control and a hidden gay background is evident in the film. He killed himself in 1957 by drowning himself.

The word auteur came about when a bunch of movie critics said that it is important for a film to reflect the directors vision. This was a reflection on film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Howard hawks.