udience feels to the characters within a film while watching it greatly contributes to the feeling that we have about what the director is trying to say to us. While an audience is unable to be sure what a director is thinking, reading interviews and watching a number of films by the same author lends insight into what they may be thinking regarding their films. Often when broached regarding the ideas of what they were thinking while making a film, filmmakers become philosophical, offering insight rather than answers. Many auteurs make films without the knowledge that there will be parts analyzed in a certain way. This can be said for Kurosawa who explains his view of his films and an overanalyzation of such, in a candid interview near the time of his death.“Critics take my work and say things about it, such as: This scene in the film means such and such. It’s not true! I am not thinking of that at all! Really, the films are just created totally naturally, I just film it as I go along. It may turn out affecting people in a certain way, but I don’t create films by rationalizing my thoughts. It’s something I was born with that comes naturally, so it must be full of my ‘style.’ On the other hand, its not something I am overly aware of while I do it, I don’t force it to be a Kurosawa film. I tell the actors just to be honest to themselves and to their feelings, not to think about unnecessary things and to let it flow naturally. This is my philosophy in life and something I hold close to my heart.” Our first insight into a director’s attitude is how he creates his film; much of this is the level of control that a director exercises upon his body of work.Throughout Kurosawa's career, he worked hard to repeatedly present the themes, which were important to him. This is not always the case in Zemeckis' films, as we do not see Zemeckis using the same themes consistently throughout...
