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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9519744" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>Good thought. If we're actually looking to assign blame, I think the pertinent bits would be:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Director seems to be the role with overall responsibility over a movie. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If a scene was bad and should have had a second take or re-shoot, the cinematographer or director-on-set would be the one supposed to realize this and make the call. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Producer's role is to get everything done. If a movie was rushed or if there wasn't enough lighting or there was one makeup person for ten different characters all on screen at once or the actor who loses five pounds as the day goes on doesn't have two versions of their outfit or whatever, the responsibility chain stops with them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The individual departments or posts (such as cinematographer, lighting director, stunt coordinator, etc.) are responsible for those specific aspects of the film.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ultimately, everyone who invested in and greenlit the project ought to have been making sure they had competent people at every step of the way. This leads into the weird way movies are financed (/used as losses to offset gains for tax purposes) and how too many people in the process are fine with the overall product not making money. </li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>