Fun fact: there’s more to story. David Lynch turned it down but Spielberg has a mutual friendship with Laura Dern. Steven asked Laura if she could convince Lynch to do it, so we have Laura Dern to thank for that fantastic performance/scene.
What I love even more about that choice, is that before becoming a director, David Lynch was a painter (and still is). And he came to the idea of making a movie by imagining one of is painting moving. So the fact that Ford asks Sammy to look at a painting is perfect.
I wish that was the whole movie, honestly. I liked the movie fine, but personally, I would've rather seen him actually learn to be a filmmaker and start his career in show business. The story he tells in another part of the interview about sneaking onto the lot and putting his name on the door of an empty office and using it to make movies for two years. That sounds like an amazing movie. The movie he made kinda came off a little bitter to me. Two hours of emotional processing of his mom's affair and his parents' divorce. Not uninteresting or anything, but not exactly the most compelling part of the story to anyone but him. But whatever. It's Spielberg. He can make whatever the hell he wants.
@@EvanFowler We already know about the Spielberg who worked in the movie industry. This movie was telling his full personal backstory for the first time in anything close to a complete form. That being said, I think they ought to do an entire dramatic movie about the making of Jaws.
lynch is a top 3 director for me but the interview would be like 10 minutes of david just saying "no i will not answer that" lmao, it would still be fun to watch tho
I wish for more Steven interviews! These interviews with Stephen is phenomenal! PLUS JOHN! Oh man having John and Steven in the room is just breath of fresh air seeing them! Also telling stories and enjoying themselbes
Because my daughter is getting to the age where she can watch the classics, we've watched a few Spielberg movies in the last year. I can easily say he followed John Ford's advice, because sometimes I catch myself looking to see where the horizon is.
I may not know much about John Ford but I have seen the famous interview he did with Peter Bogdanovich and I think Lynch did an excellent job capturing the sort of offbeat bluntness that Ford had, he also looked the part and sounded just like him, it was a little uncanny. Also, I’m not convinced that isn’t how most meetings with David Lynch go.
I’m gonna guess and say Harrison Ford was asked to play John Ford. Because I could totally see him crushing the grumpy attitude John Ford had, particularly in that last scene of Fabelmans.
Yeah, I bet you're right; it was probably Ford. Spielberg made the right choice though. Harrison Ford walking into that office at the end would have almost derailed the scene. Lynch was perfect.
There was a group of directors who all basically came up together around the same time - Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, John Milius among them - that would make for a fascinating panel if you could get them together, sit them down, and just let them talk about movies (their own and the ones they love).
you dont know that, some of these kind of people tend to constantly evolve in their art and never stop creating. ageism in the industry took away from us all the creativity and eccentricity they could still bring, now almost everything in mainstream entertaiment is boring, unoriginal, "safe" formulas for CORPORATE to maximize profits, "popcorn" and made for people with fish attention span.
@@thecat1250 When Brian Depalma was 40, people bought paper magazines for entertainment. I love Depalma. But we are different species living in different worlds. When Depalma was 20, his only chance of seeing a video in color was going to cinema, where a human person had to physically change reels of film stock. If you don't think there's a serious issue at hand there, then I don't know what to say. Ageism got nothing on _time._ I'd love to go back in time when peasant family life was a competitive option and a norm. I'd be a good French peasant. Going into self-sufficiency now, just by myself, would be madness. Similarly, a panel of 80 something movie directors won't save cinema.
I don't know why I laugh every time Steven swears. You never know how he's going to approach the word, sometimes very tactfully, and sometimes it just happens and he looks as surprised as we are. 🤜🤛
Imagine John Ford was asked today if he would have talked different to him if he would have known how famous he will become, and he answered "no, because he became famous because he followed my advice"
Honestly, I think the two minute perspective lesson in composition was basically the most useful thing he possibly could have taught him. He was a busy dude. I'm kind of surprised that it took him years to realize that he wasn't just being a dick to him.
Three pieces of advice? Didn’t Lynch do a similar thing on Louie C K, when he was auditioning to take over as host on a late night talk show? (I’m sure you’ve heard of it)
By coincidence, I watched North By Northwest the day after watching this film. And man…that cornfield sequence with this scene fresh in my mind…Check it out, film geeks!
2:07 - that reminds me of when I saw Michael J Fox at an event in 2016. I walked up to the microphone dressed as 2015 Doc Brown. “Hello,” I said to the group of Back to The Future actors, “I’m a big Back to the Future fan.” “Oh really?” Said Michael. “I couldn’t tell.” Afterwards, another fan I knew said: “you had a moment with him!” In truth, I didn’t feel the same, but then when I saw Fox’s recent documentary “Still,” and saw a bit more of him being comedic in action, I realized she was right!
@@marcus_ohreallyus Also in top 5, the girl coming onto him in her bedroom, and him telling the bully he will never make a movie about their conversation.
I know this interview series is basically a FYC campaign for Fablemans, but I dont care. Not enough people saw this film, and its one of Spielberg's very best of his career.
Nice attempt to get Steven to tell what he'd say to a young aspiring director; what a way to keep it to one's own self (blame the hour glass). Hey Steven, Kaiser Jaeger is inspired to forego cussing, because a guy that can (and still be adored), didn't; thanks for the poised presence. KJ
David Lynch was a perfect choice for John Ford, just by delivering the same reaction from Sammy to some of the audience members. I remember watching it in theatres, while Sammy was thinking "Was that fu**ing John Ford?", I was thinking "WAS THAT FU**ING DAVID LYNCH?!"
What I have learned over the years from watching everyone of these documentary series is on these film directors including the E! true Hollywood story the best advice from a film director is no advice just learn from their mistakes and you will be a better than them
So Steven Spielberg makes the movie ready player one takes most of the stuff out in regards to him but then turns around and makes a movie about him as a young filmmaker? just odd
It's weird hearing Steven Spielberg use the term bollocking - I thought that was a very British term, especally in the context of being a kid and told off by a teacher, but I guess that's me showing my extreme ignorance and it's well known all other the place, but hey - at least it's on youtube, which is such a welcoming place! Awesome interview, though.
I sincerely doubt that any aspiring director would be able to walk into Spielberg's office... or, if someone somehow made it in (I imagine there'd have to be a connection), that Spielberg would stop whatever he's doing and warmly advise this person. Could be wrong. Be nice to be wrong.
When he ran Amblin in the 1980s, he would run in and out of everybody's offices and give them advice on whatever they were working on. I heard those meetings were very brief too though, LOL. FYI, this came from an interview with the writers Brent Maddock and/or S. S. Wilson.
I would guess his first choice was Harrison Ford who is famously crusty and gruff. But Lynch, the painter turned filmmaker was an inspired perfect choice.
Our Achilles heel, interpretation. How often have we misinterpreted, misunderstood a gift for being unable, in a specific moment, see beyond our eyes pov and not beyond to an underlying, deeper lesson? Hopefully, for our sakes, less than more.
You heard it here, folks. If you're a young director who gets to talk with Spielberg. You're getting more than a two minute talk because John Ford traumatized him. Get yourself a 60 minute lunch!
Lol someone's a little antsy. You're probably not gonna like the 3 other videos I just watched of Stephen interviewing Mr Spielberg. They're close to 10 minutes long each.
