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However, most of the people talking about and analysing Fincher and his films on the Internet are fans like myself; his cult status on the Internet is huge. So I felt that I was getting an unfair or bias impression of his films. To get a more balanced view I looked at some more critical sites such as Guardian Unlimited and the arts pages of other online newspapers. They seemed to have a more critical approach to Fincher's style, implying that his emphasis was on impressing the audience with camera work and not so much with narrative. However they did agree on Auteur similarities and post modernistic style, especially in Fight Club and speak of him as a talented camera artist.
Fincher, not actually believing himself to be an auteur, makes it hard to find out why he always includes certain idioms into his work, but I think it is clear that he likes to include these shadowy metropolitan images in his films and decaying ideas of what most call home to shock the audience and upset the comforts of life. .
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It is all too easy for critics to write David Fincher off as a youthful inexperienced "entertaining" one-dimensional director. Whilst researching the man, and his films I found that critics either love him or dismiss him as a half boiled new age MTV generation director, of whom there are so many now emerging. The reason that I chose to research the post modernistic elements of David Fincher's style of directing is for many reasons: one is that I enjoy his films, another is that he has achieved such an extensive fan base from the just few films he has made. This fan base seems to be mostly 15-30 year old males which I think is because of the postmodern themes that run through his work i.e. rejection of society, dark worlds with dark people, dark issues and dark (black) humour, that all appeal to the rebellious nature of oppressed teens. This detail, and the inclusion of such things as testicular cancer in his films with a whimsical humorous element to it would make some people hate it and others love it.
