
521. Directorpiece Theatre: How Rob Reiner Constructs Romantic Comedies
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The Quality of a Comedy Director
Reiner has to be equally skilled with camera but much more transparent as a filmmaker than say a horror director or a thriller's director. Most comedy directors particularly rom-com directors have to sort of operate mostly invisibly from a camera slash style perspective some directors like Woody Allen basically only shoot conventional coverage. Quentin Tarantino makes comedies and not always but and he controls every frame so you know and also of course Edgar WrightEdgar Wright has like relentless control or even Wes AndersonYou know there's definitely like exceptions to that but none of those people really work in the rom-com genre.
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