Auteur Criticism

Mamat Khalid

In auteur criticism, I’ll choose Mohamad bin Mohamad Khalid or known as Mamat Khalid as example of film’s director that can be consider as an auteur. I’ll choose three movies to identify his style which is Rock (2005), Man Laksa (2006), Zombie Kampung Pisang (2007) and Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah (2010) and Rombongan Cik Kiah ke Kelana Jaya.

            Mamat’s films is easy to recognize as his movies was in the same style. He usually does comedy genre and will combine it with other genre like horror and musical to be a hybrid genre movie. He has a lot of regulator collaborator as most of his movies using the same actor. His common collaborator that we can see in most of his movie is Sofie Jikan, Awie Wings, Allahyarham Zami Ismail, Delimawati and many more. We can see how hard he promotes Perak in his movies. He likes to use village in Perak as his mise-en-scene in most of his films. By using the dialect of Perak, it is easy for the audience to recognize his films. This will help people to know more about the beauty and uniqueness of Perak dialect.

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