Yes, this is exactly the point I was making. Some of his films, particularly the ones that were being discussed, have gorgeous visual components. Doesn’t the lack of visual consistency suggest more collaboration as well?

Sure, film is a very collaborative process and director’s and producer’s probably get too much of the credit sometimes. The production designers and cinematographers, etc. are just as important to the final product as Wilder’s direction which is why the themes of his films as well as his wit and use of satire to reveal brutal truths and his infatuation with an exaggerated American lifestyle is the most solid evidence of his auteurism because he has the most control over that aspect.

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