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| | Classic Films: The Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | No doubt the auteur critics exaggerated the primacy of the director, particularly in America, where many film directors were at the mercy of the studio system, which tended to emphasize group work rather than individual expression, stars rather than directors, and box-office success before artistic distinction. |
 | | True, the stage director creates certain patterns of movement, appropriate gestures for his actors, and spatial relationships, but all of these visual elements take second place to the language of the script, which is created by the playwright. |
 | | That is, the director is responsible for the general interpretation of the script, and usually defines the limits for the other interpretive artists: actors, designers, technicians. |
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