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Originally Posted by ferretchucker
...films tend to include significant aspects of other genres in them now etc.
...Tarantino. So he's made gangster films, a western, a war film etc. But more than anything, telling someone that something is a "Tarantino Film" is the most useful way to sell a film to someone.
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Indeed, a large portion of films are very postmodern these days - mixing genres, referencing other films, talking to the camera, even self referential. I love the creativity, and new understandings, that occur with new perspectives... but in film, when there's too much of this hodge podge of subjects, genres, quick change of mood and subject, it compounds the innate gravitation of commercial film producers to fund and copy prior films; so that all films seem the same all the more.
The genre of Directors does seem to be more descriptive of a film than the genre. Do we have any Meryl-Streep-of-directors these days -- a famous director whose films are all 'directorially' very different from eachother?