Steven SpielbergGroup 3 The Time Machine

Andriana Laskari

Paul Lavey

Jenny Riseborough

Jo Ray

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Oxford Revision Guide.

Steven Spielberg: A biography

George Lucas Interviews. University Press of Mississipi, USA. Lucas Quote from Mathews, Jack interview with Lucas, George for Los Angeles times 1999.

Steven Spielberg. Simon and Schuster, USA.

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Peter Jackson A film makers Journey. Harper Collins Entertainment, London, England.

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Our Sources:

Arnold Spielberg: “You will have to start at the bottom of the movie business and work your way up.” Steven Spielberg: “No Dad. The first picture I do, I am going to be the director.” (Jackson.2007)

Young Spielberg (born in 1946)

FIG.1 : Steven Age 9

FIG.2: The Spielberg Family

First Commercial Success “ Firelight” in 1964

“I don’t mind looking the world in the eye, as long as there is a camera between us.” S. Spielberg (Vanderhook.2010)

FIG.3: Firelight

“A Jewish kid who felt like an alien while growing up”

“making movies as a way of finding the social acceptance he craved”

McBride 1997

FIG 4:Schindler’s List

FIG 5:Fieval, An American Tale

FIG 6: Steven Spielberg being eaten by Jaws

FIG 7: E.T. and Spielberg

FIG 8: Men In Black

Influences

Alfred Hitchcock

FIG 9

“In this respect Spielberg recalls Hitchcock, as he does also in his

insistence on the emotional rather than the intellectual power of film and the responsibility of the film

maker to fill the screen with imagery so exciting that it transports the

audience out of their normal lives”

(Sinyard. 1987: 7)

FIG 10: The Birds FIG 11: Psycho

Stanley Kubrik

FIG: 12

FIG: 13 Clockwork Orange FIG 14: The Shining

George Lucas

FIG: 15

“When he saw the short, Spielberg, “Was jealous to the very marrow of my bones. I was eighteen (actually twenty) years old and had directed fifteen short films by that time, and this little movie was better than all of my little movies combined. No longer were John Ford, Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Frederico Fellini, David Leon, Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Curtiz my role models”

(McBride. 1997)

FIG: 16 Jaws

FIG 17: E.T FIG 18: Land before Time FIG 19: Pinky and the Brain

FIG 20: Saving Private Ryan

FIG 21: The Terminal

FIG 22: Taken

Michael Bay

FIG 23

FIG 24: Armageddon FIG 25: Pearl Harbour

JJ Abrams

FIG 26

• Identifying an audience (usually males 14 – 24) whose hunger for sensation was limitless, and easily satisfied.• Appealing to a mass audience.• The concept of mass opening simultaneously across multiple Countries

“I think the effect Steven and I have had on the business is to help promote the independent art film.”“That’s the thing the New York critics don’t want to acknowledge. They think the films today are worse than they’ve ever been. Personally, I think they are better than they’ve ever been.” (Jack Matthew’s interview, George Lucas Quote. Kline. 1999: 229).

FIG 27: Spielberg and Lucas

FIG 28: Peter Jackson FIG 29: Jurassic Park

“Seeing the digital dinosaurs in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1993 made as dramatic an impression on Peter Jackson as his first encounter with the stop-motion monsters created by Willis O’Brien, sixty years earlier, for King Kong”. (Sibley, 2006:257).

FIG 30: Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen

BUT WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR SPIELBERG….?

FIG 31: Tin Tin FIG 32: Super 8

FIG 33: Transformers

TO CONCLUDE:

• He saw his passion in films as away to be socially noticed / accepted.• Redefined the summer blockbuster and established the Hollywood format• Films influenced by his own family history and visionary directors including Hitchcock, Kubrick etc...• Influenced many directors working today including Peter Jackson, JJ Abrams etc...• He has become a one man conglomerate.

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Hill, Grahame. (2001). Oxford Revision Guide, AS and A Level Psychology Oxford University Press

Jackson, Kathy(2007) Steven Spielberg: A biography. Greenwood Press:USA

Kline, Sally (1999).George Lucas Interviews. University Press of Mississipi, USA. Lucas Quote from Mathews, Jack interview with Lucas, George for Los Angeles times 1999.

McBride, Joseph. (1997) Steven Spielberg. Simon and Schuster, USA.

Mothers of Influence(2005) UK: Bordon Books

Sibley, Brian (2006). Peter Jackson A film makers Journey. Harper Collins Entertainment, London, England.

Vander Hook, Sue (2010) Steven Spielberg: Groundbraking Director.USA: ABDO Publishing Company

IllustrationsFig.1: http://steven-spielberg.gemzies.com/show/entry_10769/more_17/Young_Steven_Spielberg.html

Fig.2: http://radaris.com/p/Arnold/Spielberg/

Fig.3: http://www.all-movie-info.org/film/Firelight/0kv8sl/

Fig.4: http://jcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/ents/Churchill%20JCR%20Ents%20-%20WordPress/jcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/ents/index6146.html?paged=2

Fig.5: http://benlindbom.wordpress.com/prominent-scouts/

Fig.6: http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/An-American-Tail/Fievel-Mousekewitz/

Fig.7: http://ruleoftworeview.com/?p=518

Fig.8: http://www.bangitout.com/articles/viewarticle.php?a=2938

Fig 27. Spielberg and Lucas http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080416/spielberg-lucas-84_l.jpg Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 28.Peter Jackson http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/wallpapers/119489/peter-jackson-mobile-wallpaper.jpg Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 29. Jurassic Park http://www.everythingaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/t-rex-jurassic-park.jpg Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 30. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen. http://www.slashfilm.com/spielbergdreamworks-for-dummies/ Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 31. Tin Tin http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/files/2009/03/tintin.jpg Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 32.Super 8 http://www.onlinemovieshut.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/super-8-movie-poster.jpg Accessed 28/03/11

Fig 33. Transformers http://www.flicksandbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/transformers-dark-of-moon-logo.jpg Accessed 28/03/11