Alonso Diez
Mrs. Miller
English 12
March 24, 2016
Steven Spielberg and his influence in the film industry
According to statistics, the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws was one of the most watched movies in the 1970’s with a little production budget of $12 million and an incredible worldwide box office of almost $500 million. This, however, is not the only blockbuster movie from this American director and producer. In 1993, Universal published Schindler’s List based on a novel from the author Thomas Keneally called Schindler’s Ark. This movie based on real life events, tells the story of a manager of a German military company during World War II, and how he makes a list out of all his Jewish workers to save from the hands of the Nazis. Magazines …show more content…
In the middle of the 1950’s, the TV shows started to gain popularity and “By the mid-1960's there were simply no longer any strong studios, with the possible exception of Universal--which had a lingering reputation as a schlock house” (Silver). Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati in 1946, but because of his father’s engineering career while the computer era, they had to move from state to state. As an amateur photographer, his father started to teach him all the photography techniques as he saw the interest of Steven Spielberg in moviemaking. Although he directed and produced some little films as a teenager, his grades wouldn’t allow him to go to any of the prestigious film schools like …show more content…
At first, the war movies mainly goal was to show, as an objective way, how hard being in battle was. By the 50’s and 60’s, when WWII finished and the Cold War was getting started, the purpose of the war movies totally changed in the way as a kind of “Hurra! Let’s go!” philosophy instead of dangerous and brutal. When the group finds private Ryan and tell him he must go home, he keeps asking: “Did I earn it?”, “Does the fact that my brothers died give me the privilege of going back to America even though my partners fought as hard as me?”. These kind of questions represent a new more realistic philosophy in the war
Mrs. Miller
English 12
March 24, 2016
Steven Spielberg and his influence in the film industry
According to statistics, the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws was one of the most watched movies in the 1970’s with a little production budget of $12 million and an incredible worldwide box office of almost $500 million. This, however, is not the only blockbuster movie from this American director and producer. In 1993, Universal published Schindler’s List based on a novel from the author Thomas Keneally called Schindler’s Ark. This movie based on real life events, tells the story of a manager of a German military company during World War II, and how he makes a list out of all his Jewish workers to save from the hands of the Nazis. Magazines …show more content…
In the middle of the 1950’s, the TV shows started to gain popularity and “By the mid-1960's there were simply no longer any strong studios, with the possible exception of Universal--which had a lingering reputation as a schlock house” (Silver). Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati in 1946, but because of his father’s engineering career while the computer era, they had to move from state to state. As an amateur photographer, his father started to teach him all the photography techniques as he saw the interest of Steven Spielberg in moviemaking. Although he directed and produced some little films as a teenager, his grades wouldn’t allow him to go to any of the prestigious film schools like …show more content…
At first, the war movies mainly goal was to show, as an objective way, how hard being in battle was. By the 50’s and 60’s, when WWII finished and the Cold War was getting started, the purpose of the war movies totally changed in the way as a kind of “Hurra! Let’s go!” philosophy instead of dangerous and brutal. When the group finds private Ryan and tell him he must go home, he keeps asking: “Did I earn it?”, “Does the fact that my brothers died give me the privilege of going back to America even though my partners fought as hard as me?”. These kind of questions represent a new more realistic philosophy in the war