Spike Lee - Auteur
An auteur is a director who personal creative vision and style is expressed through films. The term auteur is originated in France and is French for author. There are different ways in which a director can express their vision in films and show who they are. There are many directors that are considered to be a auteur such as: Quentin Tarintino, Tim Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen. The director I have chosen as an auteur is Spike Lee.
Lee’s Life:
Spike Lee is an American film director who has directed, produced, written and acted in Spike Lee films such as Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Inside Man and Love & Basketball. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended Morehouse College and made his first student film Last Hustle in Brooklyn, he then graduated from New York University in 1982. Lee grew up in a well-off, respective African American family and by the time he was 20 he started to make amateur films. He won a student academy award for his thesis film Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Spike originally became interested in the arts because of his parents’ background but after attending college he realised he had a stronger passion for film making and decided to become a filmmaker.
Film Career:
Lee created his first feature film She’s Gotta Have It in 1986 which grossed over $7,000,000 and was one of the most profitable films made in 1986. It was a comedy Lee on set directing a film film which makes fun of the stereotyped vision on black men cheating on their partners but instead the roles were reverse and focuses on a woman having 3 different partners. The film did have some mixed views in Hollywood but it became a hit with his African American fans. After making his first feature film Lee began to create many other great films and was not only being known as a director but also a comic actor. His ultimate goal was to “make films that will capture the Black experience by any means necessary” and that is
Lee’s Life:
Spike Lee is an American film director who has directed, produced, written and acted in Spike Lee films such as Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Inside Man and Love & Basketball. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended Morehouse College and made his first student film Last Hustle in Brooklyn, he then graduated from New York University in 1982. Lee grew up in a well-off, respective African American family and by the time he was 20 he started to make amateur films. He won a student academy award for his thesis film Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Spike originally became interested in the arts because of his parents’ background but after attending college he realised he had a stronger passion for film making and decided to become a filmmaker.
Film Career:
Lee created his first feature film She’s Gotta Have It in 1986 which grossed over $7,000,000 and was one of the most profitable films made in 1986. It was a comedy Lee on set directing a film film which makes fun of the stereotyped vision on black men cheating on their partners but instead the roles were reverse and focuses on a woman having 3 different partners. The film did have some mixed views in Hollywood but it became a hit with his African American fans. After making his first feature film Lee began to create many other great films and was not only being known as a director but also a comic actor. His ultimate goal was to “make films that will capture the Black experience by any means necessary” and that is