I sometimes wonder about the role of the film director

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N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
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Star Wars is a perfect example of what a director can do, or rather shouldn't do. Natalie Portman is usually a very good actor. Not great, but capable. She and every other actor in the Star Wars movies managed to produce the most consistent pile of crap they were capable of. They were the most 2-D performances possible.

Without the director, there would have been no story.
Or consistency.
And that's the key. An actor can keep track of what they're doing, but there needs to be someone else who's keeping track of everyone and the story. That way the actors can focus on acting, knowing that someone else is making sure what they're doing fits.

A director is a like a build site forman. A carpenter can show up and build most anything, but a forman can give him direction as far as where, how big...