'The Hollywood machine always crushed any individuality in filmmaking'
Vertigo - first scene - Elster and Scotty talk for first time - that scene follows classic Hollywood conventions of deep focus, blocking, dialogue driven, doesn't display auteur individuality, however there is one moment of unmotivated camera movement that shows director control
Dream sequence - v. Hitchcock - breaks rules of Hollywood - discontinuity editing, all subjective, no dialogue and he started out in the silent era making tile cards, and so may prefer to show scenes without dialogue, which happens for a lot of the scene. Also narratively, in book don't know until end that Judy is involved, but Hitchcock brings it to the middle to use suspense, v. him
Scott not as strong an auteur of Hitchcock, difference in cuts and how they demonstrate decisions he makes of director, shows that that's not what he wants and hat he had to compromise. Debate with Ford about whether he's a replicant or not. Eye gouge in theatrical cut is shown, cut to owl's eyes, his trait, in the d cut
Very important - can we talk about auteurs anyway, do they exist
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