Altman

Encouraged to bring reality into his movies, Altman is a director of an naturalistic sort. By organizing crossed conversations and steady but consistent movement he brings the audience into a situation that is almost believable. Altman was concerned more about character motivation and development than most others; he constantly demands attention from the audience which gives the audience a jerk to pay close attention.

I learned after watching his film The Long Good Bye his creative cross conversation style and realistic happenings in his films. He keeps in the back of his mind the realistic attitude that "time waits for no man" and really puts effort into linking together piece to piece of each character to one another in a realistic environment. Speaking of random piecings together brings me to my next point about another of his films, Nashville.

There is much debate over this film since it is so spontaneous and has little no what would seem no plot development. However I can see the creative and unique technique that makes his directing style so genuine. Although Nashville has many linked relationships from one character to the next I don't feel at all that Altman was pulling a plot out of thin air. There is what appears to be a main plot idea and he simply uses that as a guide throughout his films, adding more important details for his character's development. He uses plot as a guideline for his films, not bound by a certain ending or restricted by certain idea points.

After doing a little research I found a couple bios (and yes I admit I did a bit of wikipedia) and had discovered that Altman was going through a bit of a funk period before Mash which gave him a bad look on Hollywood. My point leading to is that it's possible the film The Player was based off of his not so friendly attitude toward Hollywood. The film itself is about a Hollywood production company and it's flaws, a man Griffin Mill is desperately fighting for his job from another employee whom seems to be out doing him. The main idea is that Hollywood is full of crooks and crazy men biting at each other's heels to get some recognition.