A Study Of Denis Villeneuve’s Films From The Perspective Of Auteur Theory

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve is one of the most high-profile directors of the Mesozoic era in the world film industry and one of the most successful foreign directors in the Hollywood system.Throughout Villeneuve’s film creation career,in spite of he experienced the transformation from the context of independent film creation in Canada to the context of film creation in Hollywood system,his film sequence generally presented distinct personal style and coherent theme expression,with a strong temperament of "author film".In his suspenseful and mysterious story,Villeneuve creates an atmosphere of tension with an objective and alienated attitude,by using a personal style of aesthetics to lead the audience to experience the protagonist’s process of exploring the truth in the mystery.To make the audience emotionally resonate,triggering reflection on human nature and reshaping morality."Auteur Theory " is a very important theoretical concept in the history of the development of film art.Auteur Theory has become the criterion for the film creators to judge the artistic value of the film and the spiritual guide for the film artistic creation since the 1960 s.However,the Auteur Theory has been proposed from the very beginning with innate limitations and inherent contradictions.With the continuous development and evolution of the film art in the changing times,Auteur Theory has always been unable to maintain a reasonable sense of propriety in the dynamic context,thus gradually stepping into the marginalization.However,for those directors who embody distinctive and unique stylized artistic expression in excellent film creation,Auteur Theory is still the most effective theoretical path to analyze their artistic creation,and the study of the author is still the fastest entrance to get in their film world.Villeneuve is such a good film creator,even if it does not fully correspond to the original criteria of Auteur Theory,but still should be called "author" title.In the context of the development of film art in today’s era,the commerciality and artistry of film,as well as the independence and system of film creation,are increasingly closely integrated.Auteur Theory should not be confined to the old norms,but should keep pace with The Times,relax the evaluation standards for film creators,especially those within the system,and regain the spirit of the theory of film authors,so as to encourage and guide film creators to adhere to the artistic pursuit and personal expression.This paper first reviews the development of Auteur Theory,and reunderstands the historical nature of the theory from the perspective of "Cinephilia".Then,according to Auteur Theory as the methodological theoretical framework of film criticism,the author studies Villeneuve’s film creation,summarizes and summarizes Villeneuve’s creative characteristics in theme expression and aesthetic style.Finally,taking Villeneuve and the characteristics of Hollywood "system author" in film creation as an example,this paper attempts to discuss the proper meaning of Auteur Theory in the context of the development of film art in the current era.