...STEVEN SPIELBERG’S WORK Spielberg is one the most renowned and successful filmmakers of all time. Not only are his films and T.V shows commercial hits, they are also critically successful. He has always taken on unique challenges, the likes of which other film makers would run away from, as is evident from movies like Jaws, Jurassic park and Artificial Intelligence. As is also evident from Spielberg’s work are his innovation and what he has added to global cinema. The scope of his film making at times cannot be put into words. For instance he is one of the pioneers of CGI (computer generated imagery), a prime example of these are his films like ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘E.T the extraterrestrial’. He made such movies at a time, when computer generated graphics were merely a source of comic relief, and looked very fake and cheap. He actually, made incredibly good use of the, at the time limited technology available to him and made it look good, realistic and appealing on screen. Spielberg has also been a pioneer in the sense that he has always looked to make unique films, i.e. topics that haven’t been tapped before and his work does not stick to any particular genre. For example his array of work includes movies like ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘War of the Worlds’, ‘E.T’, ‘Jaws’ and ‘Tintin’. So he has been exploring through various categories like Action, Science fiction, Adventure, Drama etc. Producing some movies where it is Man vs. Beast, Man vs...
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...recognizable style, 2 repeatedly returning to the same subject mater, 3 habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, 4 employ a reoccurring visual and aesthetic style, 5 constantly work with the same actors or cinametogarphers or editors…ect , or demonstrate any combination of the above. Steven Spielberg is an auteur and today I am going to prove it. I will show you through his use of themes, subject matter, visual style, Collaborations, and Institutions. Steven Allan Spielberg was born to parents Arnold and Leahanni Spielberg. The older brother to three younger sisters, Spielberg began experimenting with film in his early teens making movies he would show at his family house. At 13, Spielberg was already showing glimpses of future greatness, even winning a prize for his 40-minute war film 'Escape to Nowhere'. The family often moved with his father's job and it was at Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona that he produced his first feature-length film, 'Firelight', a science fiction movie with a budget of $400. Foreshadowing his future success, the film turned a tidy $100 profit after it was shown at a local theatre. After his parents divorced, Spielberg moved to California with his father. He repeatedly applied to the UCLA...
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..."Spielberg" redirects here. For other uses, see Spielberg (disambiguation). Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Cannes 2013 3.jpg Spielberg at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Born Steven Allan Spielberg December 18, 1946 (age 68)[1] Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Residence Los Angeles Education Saratoga (CA) High School Alma mater California State University, Long Beach Occupation Filmmaker & Co-Founder DreamWorks Studios Years active 1963–present Net worth Increase US$3.6 billion (2015)[2] Religion Judaism Spouse(s) Amy Irving (m. 1985–89) Kate Capshaw (m. 1991)[3] Children 6 Relatives Anne Spielberg (sister) Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[4] is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is considered as one of the founding...
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...Chances are you’ve heard of Steven Spielberg, famous director of popular movies such as “E.T the Extraterrestrial” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”. Steven Spielberg is amidst the richest people in Hollywood with an annual income of around $1 million, and his net worth in 2014 was around $3 billion. In Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 18 1946, Steven Spielberg was born, the only son in a family of four. Stevens’s passion for directing and producing films started at a young age, as a kid he would make amateur films of special family events using the family camera. Steven wanted to do bigger and better things, although this got boring and he started to make fictional movies (a movie that told a story), and even took shots from different...
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...Logan Stafford Johnny Bragg Interpersonal Communication 7 October 2013 We're Going To Need a Bigger Park For this paper, I chose Steven Spielberg, and chose the movies; Jurassic Park, and Jaws. The movies are very different, but they are very similar in their own way. The beginning of both movies are actually extremely similar. In the opening of Jaws, we see nothing, but ultimately the music starts playing, and to start things off, the girl (not sure if she had a name) was killed by Jaws to open up the film. However, Jurassic Park started off with pretty much the same thing. We couldn't see the raptor that they were trying to put in the holding fence, but we did see one of the park employee's get dragged into the cage with the raptor. That is what gave me the idea to write this on similarities. Both movies result in the deaths of five people by a(n) animal(s), I found that kind of interesting. Both Jaws and Jurassic Park use the element of surprise and suspension, because you don't always see the creatures, but you know that they are there. Both movies were huge successes and the special effects were revolutionary for their times. For the characters, I'm not comparing their personalities, just the roles they played in their movie. Martin Brody, the main character in Jaws, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, from Jurassic Park, are both characters that warn what is going to happen in the film, but are ignored and eventually proven right. John Hammond, the man behind the cloning of dinosaurs...
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...Steven Spielberg Neelou Goodarzi (HCC student and MovieMaker Club member) In promoting his new spy thriller Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg participated in a conference call interview with college students from around the country. Bridge of Spies is based on the true story of insurance lawyer James Donovan, and how he negotiated a spy swap between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War. It stars Tom Hanks as Donovan, Mark Rylance as Abel and as Austin Stowall as Powers. They say a picture paints a thousand words, but this film paints a million. At times, the dialogue was sparse — almost nonexistent. Yet, everything that needed to be said, was said. Through brilliant directing and creative vision from — among others — Steven...
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...Y es, you read that right Steven Spielberg the man who won 3 Oscars, and had had major successes include Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park and saving private Ryan, was actually struggling in school. Steven Spielberg is a great example of resilience and is one of the best role models for people of all ages. Spielberg was a self-confessed geek who dreamed through most of his school years and was mostly disconnected from his classmate’s due in part to having dyslexia, his family moving three times and because Steven was one of a small amount of Jewish children at the schools he attended, he was bullied and even abused by his peers, furthermore being fascinated with films and cameras did not help him because it was such an unusual thing at his age....
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...Famous Creative Thinkers – Steven Spielberg and Pina Bausch PHL/458 August 4, 2014 Professor Leon Hallingquest Famous Creative Thinkers Famous thinkers all have things in common that help them accomplish greatness during their lives. Creative ideas are the foundation of the creative process. When creative individuals run across a problem that needs to be resolved - this is when they start coming up with their ideas. Problems can have a variety of options for resolution. This paper will cover how film mogul Steven Spielberg and dancer Pina Bausch used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Famous Creative Thinkers In this paper specific problems and ideas that these individuals sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems will be discussed. Each person’s social, personal, or political environments will be reviewed on how they contributed to their creativity. Additionally, the creative process of each person, including obstacles they faced and a comparison of their creative processes underlying each individual’s work will be reviewed. Lastly, a critique of their ideas will be reviewed answering the questions if they could have done anything differently and if their bodies of work fit into the existing framework of understanding in their respective fields and how their work advanced further understanding in their respective fields. Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg has been a pivotal force in...
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...Logan Stafford Johnny Bragg Interpersonal Communication 7 October 2013 We're Going To Need a Bigger Park For this paper, I chose Steven Spielberg, and chose the movies; Jurassic Park, and Jaws. The movies are very different, but they are very similar in their own way. Both movies result in the deaths of five people by a(n) animal(s), I found that kind of interesting. Both Jaws and Jurassic Park use the element of surprise and suspension, because you don't always see the creatures, but you know that they are there. Both movies were huge successes and the special effects were revolutionary for their times. For the characters, I'm not comparing their personalities, just the roles they played in their movie. Martin Brody, the main character in Jaws, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, from Jurassic Park, are both characters that warn what is going to happen in the film, but are ignored and eventually proven right. John Hammond, the man behind the cloning of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and Larry Vaughn, the mayor in Jaws, both represent characters that fail to listen. Dr. Alan Grant, the main paleontologist character from Jurassic Park, and Hooper, the marine biologist character in Jaws, both play characters that are experts on the animals, but only know a lot from books (or in Alan's case, fossils) and have never really gotten a chance to experience the behavior of those animals in person. Captain Quint, the shark hunter in Jaws, and Robert Muldoon, the game warden in Jurassic Park, both...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers PHL/458 Famous Creative Thinkers Steven Spielberg is one of the most influential and successful director, producer, innovator and writer of film in the 20th and, so far, the 21st centuries with countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name. His films have touched on primeval fears with the film Jaws (1975) or looked at the marvels of this world and beyond with childlike wonder in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and ET (1982). Other highlights of his career include the literary adaptations, The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987), adventure films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), featuring the adventures of his daredevil hero, Indiana Jones. He tackled fantasy in versions of Peter Pan, Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ("Biography.com", 2014). Spielberg’s Jewish upbringing and his lifelong interest in WW II has made for some impressive historical films such as the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993) about a businessman who helps save Jews from the Nazis. The highly praised film won seven Academy Awards, including Spielberg’s first win as Best Director. In 1998 his classic film of World War II as seen through the perspective of American soldiers in Europe, Saving Private Ryan (1998), earned him another Academy Award for Best Director. Other successful films, most notably Back to the Future (1985)...
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...Allan Spielberg, better known as Steven Spielberg is a famous and respected director, producer and screenwriter in Hollywood. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios. Some of his most recognizable and notable works include the following: Jaws, Raiders of The Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Lincoln. His films combined have grossed over $9 billion, thus showing the massive appreciation, respect, and love given to his films. In December 18, 1946, Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to his parents Leah Posner and Arnold Spielberg. His mother, Leah owned a restaurant and performed as a concert pianist and his father, Arnold was an electrical engineer. Mr. Spielberg’s family belonged to and worshipped the Orthodox...
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...Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1998, is renowned as the film that best captures the reality of modern day combat. It follows a squadron of soldiers led by Captain John H. Miller on a mission to during WWII rescue a private who is the last remaining sibling of four, in order to return him home to his mother and out of harm's way. The film puts the audience straight into the action right from the start; it makes them feel as if they are a part of the war. To do this, Spielberg uses film techniques that capture the environment, but don’t leave viewers feeling like they are just spectators; his close-up, right-in-the-thick-of-things style causes us to feel horror of every bullet that flies by, and every comrade that we have...
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...To: Steven Spielberg Date: February 1, 2015 RE: Best time of year to launch a movie Mr. Spielberg, I have identified some opportunities for you to produce a film and deliver it at the optimal time to maximize revenue. This data has been sourced for 15 years from 1994 to 2008. I will outline my findings in the following 10 bullet points: Embedded Excel Data File: 1. Total Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #1 (All tabs and graphs in embedded excel file) b. Total revenue has increased year over year in the period 2. Average Revenue Per Year for Each Year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #2 b. Average revenue has also increased 3. Average Revenue Per Month over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #3 b. June, July, November, and December are the months with the largest average revenue over the period. July is the month with the highest average revenue. 4. Average Revenue Per Week over the 15 Years of data a. See tab #4 b. Weeks 51 and 52 were the highest average over the 15-year period (December) c. Weeks 26 through 31 (July) were also among the higher average weeks over the 15-year period. 5. Which movies were #1 for the longest period each year: 1994-2008 a. See tab #5 b. There were several films that were #1 for the same amount of time 6. The months and the weeks for the movies that were #1: 1994-2008 a. See tab #6 b. Because of the ties that resulted in the data, in each year the chosen #1 film’s opening weekend had the highest revenue...
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...FILM CRITIQUE: THE COLOR PURPLE 1 The Color Purple Devon Murraine ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Kayla Ward October 20, 2012 [no notes on this page] -1- The Trials and Tribulations of life 4 The Color Purple “The Color Purple” is a 1985 American drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker (Walker, 1996). The film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems faced by African American women during the early 1900s; including poverty, racism, and sexism. The character Celie transform as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions. 2 1 1. “The Color Purple” (italics) [Angela Trodello (TA)] This movie has a great representation of characters where mentioning the talented Whoopi Goldberg and the famous Oprah Winfrey. These characters represent in the movie oppressed women who have surmised by their husbands and society. Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Is more of the quiet type, a woman who lives under the pressure and demands of the man but Oprah Winfrey as Sofia, is more of a strong type, she believes in equal rights with the men. 3 2. companions. The intro needs a thesis statement. Introduce the elements of film-making that you will analyze. How do they affect your critique? [Angela Trodello (TA)] 3. men. How does their acting contribute to the mise-enscene? [Angela...
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...Historical Accuracies and Inaccuracies of Saving Private Ryan By Foday Bangura World Civilization Mrs. Beavers 2 April 2015 World War II is probably considered one of the most violent and horrific wars in modern history. There have been many reenactments of this historical moment in Hollywood. One movie that portrayed events significantly during World War II is Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg. Even though Saving Private Ryan is critically acclaimed for its realistic battle scenes and won multiple academy awards for its cinematic display and accuracy of events, there are still many inaccuracies throughout the movie as well. This film can be considered one of the greatest war movies of all time, but even some of the greatest reenactments can be inaccurate at times relating to history. The movie is about a group of troops on a mission to find another soldier in the name of Ryan so they can bring him back home to his mother. The reason they had to bring him back is because he had three older brothers already in war, but unfortunately were killed during battle. This resulted in the effort to try to find Ryan to bring him back home to his mother because he was the youngest, and to avoid all brothers being killed. During this journey to retrieve Ryan many troops were killed along the way, but at the end the troops finally found Ryan and brought him back home. During the journey, the movie reenacts historical moments such D-day. For example, the beginning...
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