Robert Altman was an American film director and screen writer known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. The three Robert Altman films I watched were the Ginger Bread Man, Cookie's Fortune and Mash. Was Altman an Auteur? If only watching these three movies of his can I find an overall voice or creative thread that carries through all three of these films? I believe so.
Robert Altman has a unique directing style that is noticeable in all three of these films. His stories although probably provided for him for these more notable films, seem to have a similar theme.
The movies seem to be very character driven rather than the plot. There is a certain intertwining web with his characters that make us forget even the name of the movie. Sometimes it is hard to put together the plot of the movie because there are so many other ways the story could go because we get so involved with intimate stories of the characters.
Things that were in common with all three movies were the focus on the cast driving the movie. As a viewer it was hard to fit these movies into a common category were you might say I've seen something like this before. Not to say that they didn't have a genre,but when the ending came you did not expect the turn out.
Mash was not the same type of movie as the others but the similarity in the overlapping of the characters were similar. they stole the plot of the movie were you didn't even need an ending to the movie because you were experiencing a moment in time with them.
I feel Robert Altman's style of directing was probably unique for it's time because it actually let the characters of the movie be so enticing that if not careful you could lose yourself in them and forget about the overall theme driving the movie.
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