Auteur or Schemateur: Tan Sri Jins Shamsudin
Tan Sri Jins Shamsudin I grew up watching the late P Ramlee’s movies. Tan Sri Jins Shamsudin had first caught my eyes through his acting as the antagonist in Sergeant Hassan together with P Ramlee. So, I’ve watched several films directed by him and I have tried to break down several elements from the Auteur Theory. In most of his films, I noticed that he always had the same theme such as family bond, love, and sacrifices. For example, in his early creations like his first “newborn”— Bukan Salah Ibu Mengandong (1969). He also always instilled a character with disability such as a character with blindness, broken-legged, cancer patient, emotional-pain, and few more. Although those characters have disabilities, I think he successfully made a big impact out of all those characters. Talking about mise-en-scene in his works, it probably seems more noticeable in his films after the year 1970s because they were in colors. Every scene was memorable. He knows how to ...