Auteur theory

AUTEUR THEORY
Auteur theory essentially states that a film's director can be recognised by its visual style.
 We looked at and compared three films by JJ Abrams: Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek and Super 8. Each film opens with a mystery. With Mission Impossible 3, it was the ambiguity of what was happening, the same with Star Trek, and with Super 8 it was the strange boxes that were on the floor after the train crashed. He does this in all of his films as a means to draw the audience in. The start of his films are always very fast paced and contain a lot of violence and explosions. Camera shake is also a recurring feature of his films, and it was very obvious in the three we looked at.
As well as this, all three films open with some form of loss of a family member. In Super 8, it's the boy's mother, Star Trek, the supposed loss of the baby's father and Mission Impossible 3 a woman is shot in the head and killed in the opening scene.
JJ Abrams frequently uses lens flares and camera shake in his films.

TOM SIX
 Tom Six is the creator of the infamous Human Centipede trilogy. He was relatively unknown to the masses until this particular franchise, but he had made films in the past for a Dutch audience. Whilst many people would consider him to be mentally ill, he considers himself an artist, often marketing himself as "a decadent artist decaying in style". He could be considered an auteur as his films are consistently offensive in their nature.
The first Human Centipede film was essentially a stereotypical psychological horror film. It used typical genre conventions to get the story going, such as a car breaking down and two young girls being lost in the woods. This was apparently done deliberately to make the audience think they were watching just another horror film, meaning there would be more shock value when the plot really got going. Despite audience reaction, the first film was very tame when compared to other horror films and the other two films in the series. It was shot very 'clinically' to parallel the central character, who was an insane Doctor. For example, the camera work was is smooth, and the colour pallet of the film matches that of a hospital (a lot of greens, blues and whites).
The second film was a contrast to the first. This is because Tom Six believes that normal sequels are boring. It is about a man who becomes sexually obsessed with the first film. This was supposedly done as a 'satirical response' to people who believe horror films and violent video games are the cause of violence, which is part of the reason why this film is so over the top with violence to an almost comical level. The central character is the complete opposite of the character of the first film. He is small and obese, as opposed to the tall and thin character of Part 1. As well as this, the film is shot entirely handheld and in black and white. Like with part 1, the visual style of the film is influenced by the traits of the central character. The shaky camera and black and white colouring reflect the unstable personality of the character.
Part 3 is a big departure from the other two films, as it is a straight out comedy. It could be argued that the other films were comedies as well due to their absurd nature, but this one is very explicit in being a comedy. It reuses the two actors who played the main characters in Parts 1 and 2, and the visual style is similar to that of a 1970's American film, using the 'centipede' idea as a method of prison punishment. Tom Six has said he believes this should actually be implemented in prisons as a crime deterrent. This film is more funny than offensive, but the offensive elements are mainly in the dialogue. This is a recurring theme through all of the films, and Tom Six himself has said if his films have managed to offend people, he has succeeded.