Steven Spielberg

What do you get when you combine Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and the Cold War? Obviously, the answer is the new film, Bridge of Spies – but these three elements come together to be so much more than your simple, run of the mill drama. And, if you’ve had the pleasure of witnessing the cinematic brilliance of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List or Saving Private Ryan, you might have an inkling of what you’re in for… In Bridge of Spies, Tom Hanks stars as James B. Donovan, an insurance lawyer with a…

the nail right on the head with the movie leaving/adding what they did to it. Speaking of good book to movie adaptation, steven Spielberg has done an excellent job doing this in and past and is still doing it today, with films such as Ready Player One, E.T, Jurassic Park, and Schindler’s List which are all outstanding movie by the way. So it’s no surprise that Steven spielberg could make this work with Jaws even for being one of his more early book to movie films it set the tone for what he…

be successful in the sports industry, the ability to motivate and inspire others is extremely important. In this particular instance, the fact that he would own an NFL franchise, which is the most popular league in America, adds to the pressure Spielberg would be…

Jacob Detampel Mrs.Gauthier American Studies Lit/Comp 11 Date: 1-4-16 Saving Private Ryan (1998) This movie was directed by Steven Spielberg, a very famous Director of all sorts of Hollywood movies. Saving Private Ryan focuses on the final stages of World War II. This film shows the D-day invasion, combat in towns, and combat in the countryside. All with the added effect of human emotion as well as rational thought. To start, the accuracy of this movie is very high. Especially the first…

Shea 1/1/16 Media and Film Campbell Novel to Film #2 For my second novel to film assignment I read the book and watched the movie Jaws. The book was wrote by Peter Benchley in February in the year of 1974. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was released in in 1975 and it was a crazy hit in the box office. Jaws is about a woman who was killed by a ginormous shark. She was swimming in the ocean and this shark came up beneath her and killed her. They wanted to close…

After watching Amistad and reading Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought and Sean Wilentz’s the Rise of American Democracy, the terrors of slavery and the incongruities of the legal system in a divided America was made apparent. The story of the Amistad Case is heart wrenching, but clearly exemplifies the changed our country has made in the definition of human rights and foreign agreements. Amistad tells the story of captured Africans who were transported from Cuba to America. Cinque, an African…

Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the eldest of four children. Steven’s father, Arnold, was an electrical engineer who designed computers, and his mother, Leah, was an accomplished pianist. Spielberg’s father moved the family frequently as he pursued jobs around the country, but they finally settled in Phoenix, Arizona. School proved to be difficult for Spielberg. He had trouble making friends because he moved so often, and at school he was constantly…

The movie Jaws is a 1975 thriller film that was directed by the legendary Steven Spielberg, it was recognized as the blockbuster of the summer of 1975. The story is constructed about killer white shark that attacks beachgoers on summer resort place named Amity Island. The film was released in the summer of 1975 and it is based on the novel that was written by Peter Benchley. The beginning of the movie shows a girl leaving a party during the night on Amity Island and she elects to go swimming…

The Movie Jaws was first released in 1975 and soon became a very popular film. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the main actors were Roy Schneider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton. With an $8 Million budget, the revenue from the film totaled to $260 Million as it was a huge hit. The film won 3 Oscars for best sound, Best Film Editing and Best Music/ Original Dramatic Score. It also won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score- Motion Picture and 9 other awards.…

“La Amistad” I will write about the movie “Amistad”, directed by Steven Spielberg. He is a famous director, he has directed many movies, for example: Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, E.T, Tin-Tin, War Horse, Amistad, etc. The movie Amistad was released in December 10, 1997. It was based in a true history of historical events of 1839 before the United States civil war, it was aboard the slave ship “La Amistad” that was traveling from Cuba to the South of the United States with slaves…