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The artist or filmmaker that I choose to speak about is director Sofia Copolla, who is seen to me now as an auteur in her own style of filmmaking. I am a huge fan of all her movies, because of the color and artistic approach she uses in making them. Her reoccurring themes and her use of powerful and important females, in their roles, are very intertesting and exciting to me as a fan of her. The women in all of her films have great influence over the men in the films. She uses the protagonists in situations where they do not want to be or they do not know how to react or how to deal with the situations, she then brings the antagonist into the film to then place where the lost protagonist is.  She uses her own auteur and the art of montage in all her films to create a series that elute emotion, show the irony or comedy, emphasize the mood and personality of the character through music color, and in a short and exciting time span in the film. Her use of soundtrack so very inspiring because she does not use the typical score, or top 40’s music, but indie rock which adds to her person style and auteur. Her films tend to contain a “surrogate Sofia” which I noticed in watching a lot of them, which means she has an actor that is a refection of her. One of her famous works that does pass the Bechtel test is the film “The Bling Ring”. It is a huge passer of the test and is featured mostly by an all female cast. The film also proves that even as a strong passer of the Bechtel test, it can not be that feminist only because, you cannot really sympathies with the characters, because of how shallow and materialistic they are, but they do not really have conversations about men, but about their own sexuality, it is almost always just for their own self narcissistic wants and needs, and the men are just there as a mere afterthought.