Steven Spielberg

demonstrate bravery and wisdom, be employed into noble and fantastic actions, become involved in supernatural occurrences, and do all of this on a grand and vast setting and in elevated ‘epic-like’ style. Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg, introduces a very noble hero. The hero in this epic is Dr. Indiana Jones. There is no doubt one could compare him to the likes of the Greek warrior Achilles, Gilgamesh, who is the creator of Uruk, and the almighty King Beowulf, all being…

films vividly illustrate modern social issues and current attitudes toward the future. Based on the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long,” “Artificial Intelligence” takes place in the end of the 21st century at the United States of America. Spielberg 's film raises many questions: foremost among them, what does it mean to be a person? Degree of personhood is the status of how much a thing is a person depending on certain qualities. This theory concerns with matters such as citizenship,…

illusion. “ Technology can be our best friend and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy on our cell phones.” (Steven Spielberg). People in Montag’s Society are so dipped into technology that it completely cuts off the real world from them. This is slowly happening to our society, we must change before it's too late. Technology holds people down and that's a…

Since the first dinosaur bone was unearthed and mounted in a museum for the world to view, people have been fascinated by the gigantic ancient beasts that once ruled the world. Soon movies brought the dry dinosaur bones to life, featuring dinosaurs as the biggest villains of the film industry. America’s love affair with lost worlds, super-sized villains, and industry leading special effects, helped to make dinosaurs on the big screens biggest stars. Dinosaur movies have captivated our…

Karisa Watson 4/21/16 Dram2366 Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants. Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle, Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of…

In the movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, by Steven Spielberg, there are two dominant groups of beings: flesh-and-blood humans, and nuts-and-bolts humans (also known as mechas, or mechanical people). In this dystopian future-world, humans produce and destroy mechas as they like because to some, a mecha is only a machine and cannot feel emotions or pain, even if they can show outward manifestations of emotions and pain. David is a mechanical child that is programmed to not have this…

Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park was written by Michael Crichton in november of 1990. The book become a huge success, somewhat rapidly, raking in a sisable profit. Because of this success and the people 's desire for more, only a mere three years later Steven Spielberg had created Jurassic Park: the movie. The film, quite like the book, was…

In the movie E.T., directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison, there are many examples of developmental theories of psychology. Throughout the entire movie, all of the children exhibited examples of varying developmental theories. Elliot went through cognitive childhood development; Michael went through the nurture side of nature vs. nurture and intellectual development; Gertie fit into Piaget 's theory of concrete operational; and lastly all the children came together with…

Minority Report tells the story of the year 2054 in Washington D.C., where police utilize a psychic technology to convict murderers before their crime has been completed. The film Minority Report is categorized as a dramatic mystery and directed by Steven Spielberg in the year 2002. Tom Cruise, who plays the leader of Precrime, is convicted of murdering a man that he has never met. At the beginning of the movie, Tom’s character is convinced that a character named Danny Witwer, played by Colin…

screenwriting, and social nuance. 1967 was the year that also saw Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Kramer, 1967), In The Heat of The Night (Jewison, 1967), and Hurry Sundown (Preminger, 1967) cement the careers of Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll. Poitier and Carroll were among a handful of actors to appear in major Hollywood productions that addressed themselves to the blackness of the actors, while suggesting accommodation of their civil rights environs. With the contemplation of mixed…