Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park Or Jaws

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Steven Spielberg
Have you ever seen ET, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park or Jaws? If so you’ve watched a Steven Spielberg film. Spielberg has become a household name because of these movies and many more. Steven would is also known for shaping how a lot of directors now film and even think about how they produce movies. (Ebert)
Steven Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Spielberg's directing career started with him being a TV show director; later he became a movie director. His first movie to gain over $100 million dollars was Jaws (Ebert), a horror film about a man eating shark. This concept was very new to a lot of movie goers and even scared people out of the movie theaters. Spielberg's Hollywood fame can be initially credited

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