Task 5 Auteur Theory

The auteur theory first began in France and this theory was made a French man called Francois Truffaut in 1954. What is the auteur theory? The auteur theory is a type of trademark to certain directors but not every director would be considered an auteur.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time who is also an auteur would be Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg would be considered an auteur to most people because of the deep meaning and symbolism he has in his movies he also uses some of the same visual scenes and same actors in his movies. Movies like from Steven Spielberg like E.T, Indiana jones, war horse and so many other movies use the same exact techniques in his movie which is why it makes him such a great auteur.

In some of Steven Spielberg’s movies you often hear an anonymous sound like aliens which are mostly in his science fiction movies. The anonymous sound used in the Steven Spielberg movies can appeal to the audience as they have some mysteries them making the audience wonder what is going on making interested and image in the movie.

He also uses the darkest shadow to represent the brightest and purest of character with the background to represent an amazing and shocking moment in his movies. Steven Spielberg also uses the same camera style when his recoding his movies. 

So when an intense and dangerous moment is happen in movies he always zoom the camera in to have an extreme close of the character’s face to see their reaction and a lot of director seem to use this after to the movie Jaws that Steven Spielberg has made what Steven Spielberg seem to do most often is make a young boy the main character and it is known that when he does this it’s often secretly directed at him and his childhood as the boys in his movies are to a show a boy coming of age. 

You may not always see young kid in his move but when you see a parent and a child in his movie it’s often about his childhood.The constant themes Steven Spielberg uses in his movies are danger, family, tragedy and love which appeal to the majority of the audience as most of the audience likes these of types of theme when comes a movie. Because of that most of Steven Spielberg’s are often watched by a lot of people are prized to be some of best movies they have every seen.