An article in the NY Times
(If the link doesn't work, just type the director's and screenwriter's names on yahoo and search, it's the first result)
Basically, director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel) have a fall out because they have a disagreement on who gets the "credit" for their films. Inarritu thinks he's an auteur but Arriaga thinks it is a collaborative effort, and that his scripts are "more than 90% responsible for the structure of the films". Because of that, the director banned the screenwriter from attending the Cannes Festival in May.
What do you think?
Not to discredit the director, but I think Arriaga is probably very influential in the films because "The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada",written by him and directed by Tommy Lee Jones, has very similar narrative structure (and the film is great). It is egotistical for a director to claim sole credit.
Maybe Inarritu will show people how much an auteur he is after this fallout.
Sometimes we really give the directors too much credit.
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yeah, i definitely think the screenwriters and editors should be given far more credit than they are... especially in films like Inarritu's in which the narrative structure plays such a big part... aesthetically, Inarritu surely has a vision and is an 'auteur' in his own right, but to say his films are the creation of his vision alone is ridiculous
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