Why all the "directors vision" junk?

[Spiderbri]

Ok, over the last few years I've been getting more and more annoyed with all the talk about "the directors vision" or "how the director intended"

Why? How about the dang writers vision? they are the one that, you know, came up with the whole MOVIE!

ok, ok. Admitedly I have aspirations of being a writer so there is no doubt bias. however if I ever got good and gained some influence I'd like to direct as well. (both pipe dreams that will never happen)

But seriously, I just don't get it. When I make a story I see in my head exactly how it should be. Tha camera angels, the facial expressions, the timing, everything. But writers get no love. Everyone knows actors, and at least half of the directors get a certain level of fame.

But how many normal people know who WROTE the Matrix, or Spider-man or Transformers. They know who directed them, and who stared.

It just seems like BS. It should be the writers vision what they wanted to portray not the director. If nothing else it should be a colaboration, but most scripts get rewritten half the time.

Granted I'm not in hollywood so I don't KNOW anything, maybe the writers are always on set helping the director. But from what I've heard and seen in behind the scenes stuff they aren't.

Who cares if the director wanted grain, maybe the writer didn't. Who cares if the director wanted to make it darker and more edge, maybe the writer wanted it to be lighter with more of a comedic edge.

And we can't say the director is always right because if the writers vision isn't done we don't know how it would have done financially.

*sigh* I don't know. It just has really started to bug me, and I know it will never change. But I wanted to see what you guys thought.

Thanks for listening.