Choosing one director you are familiar with , explain why you do or do not consider them to be an auteur.
Danny Boyle, director of well known films such as 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Trainspotting' and '28 Days Later' can be regarded as an auteur, as his films include integrity, contain challenging ideologies and actually communicates with his audience through an artistic exploration, as seen in Oscar award winning 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
Boyle's films include issues which are often serious and engaging to a Western audience, as 'Slumdog Millionaire' explores the slums of Mumbai and through the eyes of a slumdog explores how it feels to live in poverty. The film offers audience a chance to realise how fortunate they are, as poverty is constructed as being worse for slumdogs who are blinded and forced to make money through evil and immoral ways, as signified with Latika who is made to become a dancer but is ogled by men. Through much of his films, Boyle takes ordinary subjects that have been portrayed realistically, in a politically correct way, whether it's junkies in 'Trainspotting' or slum orphans in 'Slumdog Millionaire' and he has managed to make it realistic but also incredibly uplifting and joyful for different audiences.
As well as this, Boyle's films would make him an auteur, as he raises questions over poverty and raises awareness over issues such as heroin addiction or the apocalypse, yet makes films which are insightful and do communicate to audiences.
Through the use of shots he uses and the way the stars are involved in his films make him an auteur, as his vision is illustrated in his films, as he tries to make the events seem real as possible, as signified with Slumdog Millionaire, which was shot in a real slum and includes child actors and actresses that are slum children. In this way, audiences can identify with these characters and realise what they are going through, as they see the slum children from childhood to adulthood.
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