Directors - Steven Spielberg (1 Viewer)

[Holadem]

Ernest has been abducted.

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H - Oh come on, that was an obvious one, somebody had to be the brave one

 

[ZackR]

Thanks for the clarification, Crawdaddy. I read Cees's post in the CE3K thread right after I made my original post. Thanks for taking the time to clarify it.

And Brett, that is pretty interesting. Thanks for that link.

 

[Galen_V]

There's an interesting article up today on Slate by Tom Shone that talks about the relationship between Spielberg and Lucas. I'll excerpt a little bit here and leave the link on the bottom.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2120697/

 

[Evan Case]

Seems to be grasping at straws there.

The fact that he completely screws up the release date for the THX-1138 "feature" and then builds a whole segment around it doesn't bode well for the veracity of the remaining article.

Evan

 

[RobertR]

Calling it a "feature" in its 1967 form is a bit overblown, but I don't think that's anywhere near a sound basis for dismissing the entire article. I think it's an insightful read, and comes to a good conclusion.

 

[Jefferson Morris]

Adam wrote: An interesting turn of phrase, but I think it's actually Spielberg and Hitchcock who take more care not to "show the wires" – that is, they work to make the mechanics of the storytelling more or less invisible to the viewer, so one is less conscious of the fact that they are watching a film.

Particularly in his later films, Kubrick willfully foregrounded his narrative experimentation – showed the wires, so to speak - which makes many of the films appealing only to those who are willing to join him in the fun of the experiment (I usually am).

I should mention that I agree with your basic statement that their work is no less artful than Kubrick's. And I apologize if I'm interpreting your metaphor in a different way than you intended.

--Jefferson Morris