• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t care about effort, I want to know what you have to say. I want to see what you’ve learned. I want you to show me something about your life.

    Does that mean movie directors aren’t artists? Because all they do is prompt people into doing what’s in their mind until it’s either close enough or the actor does something unexpected and they keep it because it was better than their idea.

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      the actor does something unexpected and they keep it

      Credit for this would go to the actor, Morpho.

      I am intentionally leaving you room to impress me, and you are still just calling out alleged hypocrisy.

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        2 hours ago

        It should go to the actor yet often it’s the director who gets the Oscar without the actors also getting an Oscar despite improvisation on the set. Then there’s the entire crew of set design, artists, cinematographers, costuming, and who also do work based on loose prompts from the director. Sometimes they will be acknowledged along with the director but often the director gets an award without everyone else on the set also getting acknowledged.