If you look at a painting you're looking at the work of one man, the talent of one man, the ideas of one man, the thousand judgements and choices one man made during its creation, one man's perspective, one man's beliefs, etc. When you look at a movie you're looking at a conglomeration of talent, ideas, choices, judgements, perspectives, blah, blah, blah. Every movie is the result of a different conglomerate, and even if you could get exactly the same group working together from start to finish, you couldn't get the kind of consistant recognizability that you're thinking of, because of differences in how the various levels of power in a project shift and remold themselves, and also at the varying rates that each individual and group withing the project matures and learns as opposed to the steady improvement and growth of an individual.

Posted by: Alley Writer on August 16, 2002 11:14 PM