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** Film is a hugely collaborative medium, far more so than any (only opera comes close), so it's foolhardy to elect any one participant as the "most important factor." This is even true of the director, whom the studios often treat as a wholly substitutable functionary of the process of filmmaking. There is this need on the part of many people to exalt the director into a figure of absolute authorship, but this is based on a false analogy with literature (and even literary authors are less "authors" than people generally think, as any editor can tell you) and ignores much about how filmmaking actually works (barring, perhaps, certain traditions of amateur and avant-garde filmmaking).
** Let me suggest, too, that you are confusing "actors" and "stars." Nobody thinks actors are that important, but -- within Hollywood and other mainstream cinemas worldwide -- the star is indeed extremely important much of the time. Stars are known quantities with built-in box office appeal. For a slightly offbeat project, the presence of a star is often the only thing that will convince a studio to finance it. Attach a star and a screenplay must be tailored to his or her screen image (to a way of thinking, this fact does indeed cement the star as the single most important element of the system). Let's face it: it's the stars' world. We're merely living in it.
* Why do people feel the need to be so nasty about actors' partners? I'm an admin for an Alan Rickman fan forum, and I've actually gotten really unnerved by just how mean-spirited some of his fans are towards his girlfriend; name-calling is actually one of the [[Die for Our Ship|kinder offenses]]. In Rickman's case, it bugs me because (1) it's glaringly obvious that he loves her dearly, and (2) he and Miss Horton have been in a stable, committed relationship since 1965, well before a lot of his fans were even thought of. Although, when I found out just how long they'd been together, Snape's line about Sirius and Lupin "bickering like an old married couple" in ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' got about [[Hilarious in Hindsight|six thousand times funnier]].
** Although such vitriol against the specific actor you speak of is irrational and intolerable, MOST actors have very short-lived, shallow, or even STAGED relationships lasting three years at the most and a few months on average. Such relationships truly bother the fans of the actors involved. It's as though the true purpose of marriage--the sacred union of two people's lives--is worthless in the eyes of the actors involved. Yes, divorce happens in real life. Yes, a lot of the time it's a good idea. But if you've been married seven times in four years, half of them to the same person, then you obviously do not view marriage with the sobriety you ought to. And that PISSES PEOPLE OFF.
*** But why is it anybody's business what they do with their lives? I can understand if it was their friend talking to them, but most of these people don't even personally know these actors.
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