"Auteur" He Said

Cut the "Auteur" crap.   For crying out loud, give me a friggin' break.  "Auteur theory,"  based in what for French film critics apparently was the huge discovery that movies have directors, what led the movie critic turned director,  New Wave meathead Jean Luc Godard to declare Jerry Lewis a genius because, due to pure business expediency, he directed himself in The Bellboy, something that the whoredom of the French worship of fashion has propagated itself for more than half a century.  He actually said, "Jerry Lewis is the only American director who makes progressive films. He is superior to Chaplin and Keaton."   I mean, have you seen that piece of shit?  

There actually are French intellectuals, there are actually French artists who produce art, especially among composers.  There are even some good French movies,  not many, the percentage of movies that are made that aren't crap is mighty small.  Quality in art is inversely proportional to the amount of money it costs or makes and the number of people involved in its production, its likelihood to be intellectually substantial, even more steeply, so.   France is a lot like America in that.  But you aren't going to find them among the ones who get written up or covered in the pop media, where the vedettes and intellectual frauds get publicity.  I think anyone who uses the word "auteur" in that way is signing that they're an idiot.