When Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America came out, I felt like it was a cultural explosion. It was all everyone was talking about in my school, and the lasting impact of the movie is pretty large. It's even a topic that came up on the Reel Blend Podcast, when Quentin Tarantino was visiting, over twenty years after the movie came out. Tarantino has nothing to do with the movie, except that in the big hype scene for the team, they play the music from Kill Bill, which Tarantino called "a compliment." He said that the movie "skewered everybody" in the entertainment industry, so he felt safe after it. So, why am I citing it as the moment Tarantino became an auteur filmmaker? Let's dive in. - YouTube www.youtube.com Can Someone Else's Movie Make You an Auteur? Filmmakers become auteurs by making a lot of original movies and putting their voice into them. They add so much of themselves into the movie that you can identify who directed the work by watching just a few scenes. Then, some day during their cultural rise, scholars get together and announce this person is an auteur, and suddenly we respect and care about them. But what if a scholar didn't announce someone was an auteur? What if a comedy movie made by someone else did? In the case study above, I would say that Team America anointed Tarantino an auteur. Looking back, it was obvious he was one, but it sort of...
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