Cinema. Style or Mistake?

“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.”
Fred Astaire

How much of the history of film is the driven by individual style?  How much by mistake?  Or would we call it creativity, problem solving, necessity, invention, innovation, play…  

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Comments

[Gunnar Refardt]

There’s a nice interview with Holger Czuckay of kraut rockers Can, where he points out, that nearly all mistakes he made during recordings, when things didn’t turn out as expected or intended, in retrospect turned out as the really great parts in those recordings.
Never underestimate the power of mistakes…