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Film Authorship In The Sixth Sense

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Film authorship refers to the directors who permeated their films with their distinctive personal vision and uniqueness through the use of film style. The value of a film is said to be determined according to what the director produce and his personal style. In film authorship, the influence of the director can be seen throughout all his work. Ideally, a person can watch a film without previously knowing its director and be able to identify the person who directed the film just by analyzing the film style. The audience are often given signs and information throughout the play of the film to know the producer of the film. The film ‘the sixth sense’ directed by M. Night Shyamalan is a psychological horror from the 1990. The characterization of the film is known to carry supernatural and paranormal aspects which has a dramatic tension that reflected on the audience. M. Night Shyamalan earned his auteur reputation for his film productions; such as “the sixth sense”, “unbreakable”, and “sign” etc. He is known for his fictional film production that carry unbelievable events and being well known in his style which focus on most of his stories on supernatural events, spirituality, …show more content…

For instance, Cole was seen collecting Christian icons in his red tent in order to use them to pray and make his condition better and stop seeing dead people that frightened him by their appearance. Cole sees the appearance of ghosts as an attack, but they only appear because of past lack of communication and understanding between the characters. For instance, Malcolm wants to convince his wife that he never neglected her because of his work, the girl that appeared in Cole’s tent was trying to save her little sister from the danger that was surrounding her, and Cole’s grandmother was trying to tell her daughter that she saw her dance. The dead do not see themselves as dead people but “they only see what they want to

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By that he meant that the success of an artistic project depends on the stylistic qualities of the author, and not on the work itself. Based on the specific argument, Truffaut stated in a provocative way that “there are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors”. Thus, Truffaut praised the remarkable visual style that is reflected in the director’s body of work (the film) through a consistency of themes. He also believed that even if a film is produced collectively, the director’s artistry outshines any further interference from the film

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Death expresses his grief along with the survivors of seeing the dead bodies. Death cannot see the survivors left to crumble after being separated from their loved ones, this both haunts and shocks

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The Sixth Sense is a film that tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled and isolated boy who has the ability to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist called Dr. Malcolm Crowe, who tries to help Cole overcome his “mental condition”. The film has a critical switch-ending scene, which turns the film upside down, making it very unique. The switch-ending scene works in the Sixth Sense to provide the missing piece of evidence that helps the audience understand the correct message which the movie attempts to communicate. The message is about perception and how the character of Malcolm and the audience is deceived by what appears to be and what is real. This is provided by reinforcing the previous foreshadow scenes seen throughout the film suggesting that Dr. Malcolm was dead

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An auteur is essentially a director who exterts the maximum amount of control over a production. Almost like a dictator, but in a good way, because without them the film would lack clear vision, stylization, and unique perspective. Francois Truffaut, an important well-respected director, was one of the first people to intoduce the theory. Because Francois Truffaut decided to drop out of school, he took it upon himself to get his own version of a film education. By watching three movies a day and reading two books a week, he was able to give himself a better understanding of cinema.

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The Auteur Theory, a theory formulated by François Truffaut states the idea that the true author of a film is the director. The Auteur Theory revolves around how the director leaves an implicit mark on the film and because of this cinematic, literary, or thematic signature or motif, they are credited as the author of the film. While there are numerous people involved in the production of a film, with some directors it is truly prominent who can be described as the author of the film such as with Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks, renown comical director and screenwriter is one instance of the undeniability of the Auteur Theory. Despite Mel Brook’s complete involvement in his films, writing, co-writing, directing, and even starring in many of his films,

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In the French New Wave Movement, Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS is a landmark and most important in the emergence of auteur filmmaking. With the help of this autobiographical concept, Truffaut has explored his own childhood that how the film director is also the film author. Among many film historians, French New Wave movement remains changing a collection of names, dates and films because of every film historian had its own definition of movement. In this aspect, many critics launched a theory called as the auteur theory which stated the notion that a director of the film is also the author of the film. In doing so, Cahiers du cinema authors realized that their own cinemas had bogged down by the ancient ways, which was not awareness to the film

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They saw the directors as the main creative force in film production, describing Hitchcock as a true auteur, the director is to portray their own style and way in which they see the world through the lens. This becomes expressed through freedom of the camera and creation of an auteur signature. Cahiers du critics achieved their goal of cinema gaining legitimacy of the traditional arts with the law of 1957 which attributed the status of ‘author’ to the filmmaker. ‘Tomorrow’s film will not be made by camera technicians but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a formidable and exalting adventure. Tomorrow’s film will resemble its author’ (Truffaut, 1957)

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This isn’t the most realistic, as there is usually more than one individual working on a film, but the director is considered to be the guiding force. An auteur is one that has a distinct style and is one that can create films that are both commercially and aesthetically pleasing. A good example of an auteur film is The Godfather. Sarris states that an auteur is one that has a that can create both commercially and aesthetically pleasing films, and Coppola transformed a story fit for a low-budget gangster film, into something far more.

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The Sixth Sense is a supernatural horror movie of 1999, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. This psychological thriller has received various 53 awards nominations and has won 32. In additional, it was nominated in six various categories in the prestigious Oscar Award. This movie grossed about $672.8 million at the box office. Including the regular nominations in the cherished Oscar award of Actor and Director, this movie is also nominated in the technical aspects like - Screenplay and Writing.

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