david fincher auteur

Films chosen to examine: Seven (1995)

1. Fight Club DVD, using all special features including set documentaries and commentaries by Stars and Director. (Bought)

2. Se7en DVD, using all special features including set documentaries and commentaries by Stars and Director. (Bought)

5. www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=286727

6. www.davidfincher.net (a fan site)

10. Sight and sound magazine- Article on the making of Panic Room

11. www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/postmodernism

12. www.geocities.com/postmoderismincinema

14. BFI Modern classics – Seven (Richard Dyer)

15. BBC Radio 4 Interview on Front Row

Because of my own interest in Fincher. It was hard to separate the facts from opinion. I believe that I did so, and only included things from either the Fincher himself or from people who have bigger insight into the film world.

Fincher, not actually believing himself to be an auteur, makes it hard to find out why he always includes certain idioms into his work, but I think it is clear that he likes to include these shadowy metropolitan images in his films and decaying ideas of what most call home to shock the audience and upset the comforts of life.

Christian Metz, one of the writers for the website in item 12, indicates in his essay the characteristics of postmodernist cinema, and lists ‘the importance of the director as being an auteur.’ He also lists ‘the importance of it being anti-theatrical.’ I think he means by this that the film should stay away from the conventional big Hollywood show dynamic. He also said that ‘the film should be thought provoking.’ And lastly he says that ‘there usually is an emphasis on the structure of individual shots.’ I think that these three films all contain those characteristics. The fourth point in particular, as the amount of detail that I have seen Fincher go into in particular shots is astonishing.

I think the DVD commentaries have been the most help in fully understanding David Fincher as a director, in them he tells you exactly why he wanted to do every camera shot and movement in the film, and why there seems to be a pattern in his films.

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