1) In Sternberg, the subject of auteurism, which talks about how a film is most likely to be valuable when it is essentially the product of its director (example: A Spike Lee Joint). Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Why?
2) Out of the "three grand categories" mentioned in McKee ( Idealist, Pessimist, Ironist), which of these do you think The Apartment falls under?
-Juan Sanchez
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I think that The Apartment follows the Ironist category. Buddy Boy has to make the choice of either his woman or his job. McKee says that the compulsive pursuit of contemporary values(sex, fortune,success,power) will destroy you, but if you see this truth in time and throw away your obsession, you can redeem yourself. Which is what the story is based around.
1. I agree with auteurism. There are a number of directors who gain enough control of the product to become auteurs (Kubrick, Hitchcock, Lynch, Godard). Those artists who gain this amount of control on their product makes each film an important part of their film canon. Each film reflects the director more clearly then a film with multiple contributors.
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