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I don’t really agree with that. Good stories are full of visuals and audio. The only difference is a good storyteller plants those things directly into your brain without the filter created by a director. With nothing but a pure story, how cinematic it is or isn’t is completely up to the person digesting it. If you read a book and don’t see or hear things in your head that’s kinda sad.
Most directors take those brilliant stories and attempt to get you to interpret the story the way they do. Just look at books dedicated to teaching the business of film making. They’re basically teaching you how to brainwash the audience into seeing things the way you want them to.
Most directors don’t tell a story, they simply present their interpretation of it. Which is a pretty shitty way to run things when the director didn’t write the story. This is part of why I’ve reverted to television. In TV the guy who came up with the concept runs shit. He directs the directors. In movies the guy who created the story is usually considered less important than the boom mic operator once filming begins.
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The writer does his job. The director interprets it. Not for you or anybody else, but as they see it. If they didn’t then anybody could do it and no one would know the difference and that ain’t cinema. At least not what it’s supposed to be.