Steven Spielberg

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the producers of the well-known Comedy Central show "South Park", which first aired in 1997 and is the most popular show on Comedy Central ever since. The show is quite successful, given that it is one of the highest rated shows on Comedy Central for 18 seasons and will continue to air until at least 2016. One of the main characters, Kyle, is inspired by the co-creator Matt Stone. Kyle has an auburn Jewfro resembling Stone’s, which Kyle prefers to hide. Stone…

Fate: Sealed yet Alterable It is human nature to crave knowledge. People cannot help it, and oftentimes it is a favorable quality. Awareness should be desirable, right? Sometimes. But when dealing with fate, awareness can only hurt individuals, as shown in both Oedipus Rex and Minority Report. Both movie and play clearly illustrate that when a person tries to change their own destiny, they only end up bringing themselves closer to it. They also show how attempting to alter another’s destiny…

In saving Private Ryan created by Ryan Rodat, directed by Steven Steinberg was produced in 1998. In the movie Saving Private Ryan, the story wraps around a young man named James Ryan who is one of the many soldiers who participated in D-day during World War Two. Ryan is the youngest of four brother however, his three older brothers have died in the war so, one day in the mailing office, a woman takes notice when she starts writing the 4th notification letter about the disappearance of James Ryan…

dinosaurs started to reproduce and make more of their kind. Muldoon, a hunter, tries to hunt the Raptors for Dr. Settler to turn the electricity back on: “We can make a run for it,” said Dr. Settler to Muldoon. “No we can’t…we are being hunted” (Spielberg). They realize that the dinosaurs are hunting them instead of the people hunting the dinosaurs. This is very similar to humans trying to predict weather. The weather prediction isn’t always accurate; neither is trying to avoid tropical storms.…

Back in 1974 Tobe Hooper brought us a tale of pure terror, unlike alot of horror films I've seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most horrific movies to this day and this is why. The murder scenes given in this film were brillant, brutal torture sequences that involved cutting up living people. Plus Marilyn Burns giving a terrific performance, making me feel sick to my stomach, with the fear of her character. This movie has some of the best chasing sequences from any horror movie. Our…

Report” ,by Stephen Spielberg, takes a classic short story also called “Minority Report”, by Philip K. Dick, and adds a more Hollywood modern twist to it. Similar to the short story, the movie takes the viewer on a journey filled with enough mystery and suspense to incite an internal war of right and wrong, but the movie separates itself in that it is made with a business aspect in mind. Therefore, Spielberg makes certain characters much more relatable. More specifically, Spielberg takes the…

The intolerable amount of deaths displayed in the film was only one of many strategies which Spielberg utilized in the movie to increase its authenticities. The fact that Saving Private Ryan accurately imitated the European Theatre of the War on the TV screen made it an excellent representation of United States’s contribution to the war efforts in the Second World War. The script writer Robert Rodat, wrote the plot based on a true story of Sergeant Frederick Niland. Like Private Ryan, the army…

James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

The novel “Jaws” by Peter Benchley presents Amity Island, New York as a nice and sunny vacation town. The citizens are good people who are making an honest living, in which most of the income comes in during the summer. When a shark attacks and kills a young woman who is vacationing in Amity, the true nature of this town starts to show. The main character in the middle of the conflict is Chief Martin Brody. Amity relies on him to rid the town of the shark to help it survive. In the book and…

Since the release of “Lincoln” in 2012, Steven Spielberg has been under heavy fire regarding the discrepancies in his film. Kate Masur, a professor of history at Northwestern, argues that his film is,“Inaccurate, damaging, and difficult to dislodge”, because it, “underemphasized the role of African Americans” in the abolishment of slavery. Through the viewpoint of Masur, she believes that Spielberg inaccurately interpreted that only, “White men alone were the authors of abolition.” Although he…