Question

Which of the following is a problem with auteur theory?

It does not take films’ budgets into account.
It discounts or even ignores the contributions of everyone else involved in the creation of a film.
It discounts or even ignores a film’s purpose.
It does not consider the target audience of a film.

Answer 1

The correct answer is that it discounts or ignores the contributions of everyone else involved in the creation. It lays the emphasis on the director as the (almost exclusive, or at least the only one who matters) author of a film, which nearly excludes anybody else, especially the screen writers, who even protested and went on strike because of the neglect they experienced.