How does having different directors change a film, considering they would be following the same script?
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Imagine you ask 10 different people to draw a picture of a dog. You would get dogs of 10 different colors, sizes, breeds, genders etc.
Now if you asked them to draw something more specific like a brown hound, you would still have 10 different variations in size, or style. One might be a realistic portrait, a cute cartoon, an abstract dog, a humanoid version, or a vicious scary Cujo killer.
If you asked them to be more specific and asked for a realistic brown hound, you might get a digital drawing, a pencil drawing, a watercolor, or an oil painting. You might get a thumbnail or a giant wall mural. You might have it on wood, canvas, paper or other surface.
Even if you specified ALL those details, you might still have an old brown hound, a puppy, a runt, one howling, one barking, one hunting, one wagging excitedly….
You see films are like that. The script may call for a brown hound. It may even call for a realistic 2 foot tall oil painting of a brown hound. But a script doesn’t go into enough detail to guarantee all 10 people would draw a dog that looks even similar, let alone the same.
Scripts have a lot of details left up to the director and designers. The look and feel of a film could be very different with different directors. Lighting and camera angles, choice of underscoring, the way one shot edits to another, the way the actors are positioned – so much variation.
Look at TV shows that have guest directors. You can tell that different episodes just feel different. That is why. Even with the same cast and crew and set.
Now look at films that have been remade. Look how different that can be!
A director changes so much.
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