When watching movies, the only time I really thought about the director was when the movie was so amazing that I just had to know what brilliant mind was behind the masterpiece. Movies by Quentin Tarantino usually spark this kind of intrigue– Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds for example, are masterpieces.
However, when I though about the making of a movie, all that came to mind was the director and the cast. I thought the director did all of the work (this is known as the auteur theory) and the cast simply acted. Although the director plays an important role in film production, it takes a whole village of professionals to get the job done.
A film cannot be made without a screenwriter who writes the script, a production designer who designs the sets, the cinematographer who photographs the scenes, the sound crew, the editor– they all play important roles in making a great movie. However, a great vision and direction are needed to create the film and that is what a director is for.
Every movie boils down to a protagonist and a goal. We draw ideas from past works of art and make it into our own. The reason why many films have a similar plot but are so different from each other is because every director has a different vision of how they want their story presented.
The Hunger Games and Divergent have almost the same plot.
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