Steven Spielberg is truly the best film director of all time. The music swell, the timing is right, everything comes together, and you're teary-eyed. That's the satisfaction of the film everyone wants to watch. It's like having the first bite of the most satisfying food in the world. That's Spielberg. Everyone wants to feel righteous and Spielberg gives you the satisfaction of just that. That's the kind of story he makes for his film.
No. I couldn’t disagree more strongly. He’s always promoting obeisance, his films are unoriginal, and question : *nothing* Try some Kubrick, shop around!
@Subversively Surreal 🙄 Take your wannabe pontificating, pretentious, pomposity back to the schoolyard and go back to getting your thoughts from failed-artist critics.
I trully admire your video essays, and i think that people are forgetting that both tv and cinema are not just art and moving pictures, but means to learn about real life... This youtube channel reminds that cinema isn't just a means of entertainment but of art and knowledge Also... Could you please make an analysis on the movie Frida, i mean the one with Salma Hayek
Awww man, I always love these! I never know what director you guys will pick and when you do pick a director it's always fascinating to find out their "trademarks," as it were, great job, ScreenPrism Crew! Please do Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Guillermo Del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos!
I really love this series. Maybe you should consider a Baz Luhrmann for an episode. He hasn’t had a ton of movies, but he definitely has his own style.
I hadn't noticed how often Spielbreg uses that push in/zoom out (or vice versa) shot. Until now. Some great ideas in the comments. I'd like to see both Scorcese and Nolan "You Know It's..." videos.
Saw ET in 1982. Could never watch it again. The whole theatre was in tears. Not just sniffling, openly crying. Children were yelling out to parents to make it stop. Not just to save ET but to make the pain the film was causing them to go away. Never saw anything like that again.
I think Spielberg is a brilliant director. Instead of feeling manipulated, I feel invited to his world. While there, he presents his story and it is always worthwhile. Watching one of his movies is like eating the best chocolate chip cookie in the world. You know it is going to be the best one. It is beautiful and emotional and exactly what you what you want to get. When I think of Schindler's list, it is a movie I have only seen once and yet much of it remains with me 25 years later. The little girl in the red coat, so desperate to remain alive and trying so hard to but failing. The child who hid inside of an outhouse toilet was just as heartbreaking. He did not let us the audience off the hook Even now I could cry just remembering it. There has seldom been another director that could do this to me. Private Ryan and it's battles are the same for me. But my heart is with The Color Purple. It is at the top of my all time list. It was poetry and a gift to me which I have seen so many times, I wore out my VHS copy of it. The love and care he shot this beautiful movie with was evident in every shot. How do you know you have watched a Spielberg movie? When it lives in your heart and your soul.
I really appreciate The Take/Screen Prism. Your observations are showing me there is more to contemporary film than I had thought. Your listenable and natural style invites us in, instead of sounding complicated. I'll keep watching these videos, and learning.
"He knows exactly to make you feel how he wants you to feel" I think that sums up Spielberg perfectly. There are some films of his that I will never watch, or watch again. The emotional manipulation is bad enough, but you add the wall-to-wall music and it's just insufferable. But I must say, for all of his schlockiness, he's a brilliant director. E.T. hit me hard watching it as a kid, and Lincoln was powerful and important too. Mixed feelings about the man, for sure. Also, you didn't mention this one, but his first film was a TV movie called Duel, an existential play about a man versus a truck which is actually one of my favorites.
I love Duel. I was hoping for it to pop up in the video but it's always overlooked. I think it's the beginning of a trademark of Spielberg's of not showing too much of a possible threat - we never truly see the truck driver in Duel; we don't see much of the shark in Jaws until much later in the film; we have no idea about the appearance and true intentions of the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind; even the E.T. and the Jurassic Park dinosaurs get this treatment in the first part of the respective movies; the Lost Ark in the first Indiana Jones is also shrouded by mystery; the spirits in Poltergeist (I know it's technically not his film but he has a heavy role in it) are also barely shown until halfway through the movie; the first sequence in Saving Private Ryan is also possibly the most brutal depiction of fog of war - the uncertainty of an enemy's attacks in battle. They do mention how Spielberg portrays the unknown with light instead of darkness but the trademark itself of barely showing the unknown is even more important, I think, because it's pretty consistent in his filmography since 1971 and it influenced countless films later on, especially in the horror genre, like Alien, Halloween, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Paranormal Activity etc.
Spielberg is my childhood. As I become an adult, I feel like I've grown out of the sentimentality in Spielberg's films and lean towards more cynical styles like Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone, Coen Brothers, Martin Mcdonagh. But Spielberg will always have a special place
I'd like a breakdown of 2 of my favorite directors: Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. Lee is well-known in Western cinema: he directed Sense and Sensibility; Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon AND Life of Pi, among other things. Zhang is less known perhaps to the mainstream since he is from China but to the international film audience is known for "Red Sorghum", "Raise the Red Lantern", "The Road Home", "House of Flying Daggers", "Hero", etc. among many, many award-winning films. For me my faves are Hitchcock and Zhang. Oh and for blockbusters and innovation: James Cameron and Peter Jackson.
Thanks for Spielberg movies analysis. In my opinion if we want learn movies we must study 3 directors 1 .akira Kurosawa 2. Stanley Kubrick 3.stephen Spielberg
Kathiravan Ganesh True. Those are the directors who sits at the corners or ends of the spectrum. All other directors style can be properly represented by the mix of styles of these directors.
No wonder why I loved his films...the father less tone in many of his movies really got me and had me crying in some cases. Brilliant! I hope one day I can be as amazing him and so many other greats in storytelling within film
Awesome! Now do David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Zemekis, Spike Lee, David Cronberg, Steve McQueen, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Inarritu, Guillermo Del Toro, Terrence Malick and George Miller. Also, the veterans like Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Victor Flemming, John Huston, John Ford, Roman Polanski, Carol Reed, Sidney Lumet, Lewis Milestone, William Wyler, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, David Lean, Powell and Presburger, William Wyler, William Wellman, Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Rosen, etc.
Please please PLEASE do one on Baz Lurhman, he's my absolutely favorite director of all time! Jaw-dropping costumes, anachronistic soundtracks, grand, sweeping, tragic love stories (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby,) and probably some of the most faithful adaptations made. 🎬 ❤
My very favorite shot in "Close Encounters" is a quintessential example of "The Spielberg Face" - it's the dolly-in to the balding guy at the keyboard, and damned if you didn't wind up including it minutes later! I think that it's also that particular moment in Williams' score - the high, busy strings and flutes - that, coupled with the image and that actor's face, is what makes the moment so indelible to me. Thank you so much!
You guys make an excellent work on this video - essays. It would be amazing to see the "trademarks" of Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Werner Herzog, John Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino, and Ridley Scott. As always, keep doing your impressive work, ScreenPrism Crew!
to example: Schwarzenegger. Everytime he is a One-man-army. He is more than a normal soldier/police-man or whatever. Then he makes jokes about himself (to example: last action hero). etc. but, if you think thats not a good concept it is ok. it was just a idea from me. A storm with sharks in it, was even just a idea, and now it´s a film with 4 sequels. (Oh, and btw. sry for my english, if it´s not soo good. it´s not my mother tongue. i live in Germany)
Actors can play a type very often and some actors are drawn to scripts that may have certain things in common. I think there's possible potential in there.
I'm not going to lie... I cried. Thank you screenprism! I'm even more in love with this channel every day! I can't wait to see you getting to 1 million
It might also be interesting to see what defines the "role" some actors choose to portray throughout their career, how they construct it & polish it, who perfects it so well it doesn't get boring or repetitive from on movie to the other.
My film teacher pointed out Speilberg enjoys putting circles in his movies, and the more I watch his movies the more often I see them turn up! There's something aesthetically perplexing when there's a circle present on a rectangle frame. Just for thought!
This is my first time watching the director special. Thank you for such an amazing work. I'm looking forward to watching an episode on Luca Guadagnino. 😃
It would be interesting to see if you could apply the "you know if" to method actors like Daniel Day-Lewis for example, who by definition immerse themselves in their roles, rather than depict a certain role for most of their careers.
Please do Miguel Sapochnik his work (TV & Film) makes me feel like I'm there, like it's happening to me. And Alfonso Cuarón who makes his movies picturesque
Even in quick montages like these creators ALWAYS skip over Twilight Zone The Movie and Spielberg's two Amazing Stories shorts. The Mission is of particular interest.
For big budget, special fx blockbuster type films you definitely get your money's worth of entertainment value with Spielberg. His films are always visually breathtaking & emotionally manipulative ;)
excellent analysis and explanation...love it!!! Could you please do a video on The Turn of the Screw, the 2009 screen adaptation of Henry James' eponymous novella?? I am a big fan of your videos
It would've been a funny ending about the mirrors if they showed the one where Indy in Raiders is looking at a mirror then Karen Allen flips it smacking him on the jaw.