The development of the author's films

A creative idea in the western film industry after World War II. Claude Edmund Magny, a French female critic, believes that movies are getting closer and closer to the era of "belonging to an author as clearly and unreservedly as novels". The author hopes to make the film into a work that can accurately express his intention. At the same time, Fa Ping (144) published A. Astruc's article "The Birth of the New Avant-garde: Camera-fountain pen", arguing that "film creators should write with their own cameras just like writers write with their own pens". 1954 65438+ 10, the Paris Film Handbook published F. Truffaut's paper "A Tendency of French Film". Put forward the concept of "author film" that "directors should and want to be responsible for their own scripts and dialogues". He believes that the real author of a film should be the director; The film should clearly reflect the director's personality; A director should, like a writer, express his views on life through all his works; The value of the director's works is determined by his consistent ideological and artistic quality. A. Bazin, a famous French critic, thinks in the article On the Author (1957) that "the so-called author theory is nothing more than applying a widely recognized theory in other arts to movies". The viewpoint of "the author's theory" has had a great influence on French "new wave" films and modern films in various countries.