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The one who never appears on screen yet decides exactly what you see.
means A person who manages or controls something — most famously the one who guides the making of a film, play, or production by overseeing the creative and technical work.
from From Latin 'dirigere,' to set straight or guide (di- 'apart' + regere 'to rule, keep straight'), giving us 'director' as one who directs. The same 'regere' root runs through 'regent,' 'regular,' and 'correct.' The word entered English by way of late Latin and French for one in charge; its modern theatrical and cinematic sense — the unseen hand shaping the show — is a much later specialization, arriving with the stage and then the screen.
- Final cut
- Big names earn the right to override studio edits
- Magic word
- Action and cut bracket entire imaginary worlds
- Auteur theory
- French critics declared directors the true authors of film
- Chair throne
- That folding chair became cinema's universal power symbol
- Hitchcock cameo
- He hid himself in nearly every film he made
steven spielberg — directed jaws, e.t., schindler's list, saving private ryan
stanley kubrick — directed 2001: a space odyssey, a clockwork orange, the shining
martin scorsese — directed taxi driver, raging bull, goodfellas, the irishman
christopher nolan — directed the dark knight trilogy, inception, interstellar, oppenheimer