"Jaws", "Third Kind of Contact", "ET", "Indiana Jones", "Jurassic Park", and "Schindler's List"... These commercial movies with different styles seem to be parallel to "individuals" and "authors". There is no connection. However, the HBO documentary "Spielberg", which was launched simultaneously in the United States and China this month, found Spielberg who hid himself in the commercial movie.
This great dream maker has tirelessly created many magical dreams for us for more than 50 years. Today, we finally got into the dream of the dream maker.
Similarly, by the way of the camera.
Spielberg never thought that one day he would become the protagonist of another filmmaker until he met Susan Lacy.
Susanna Lacey, one of the main creators of "Masters of America" and who has won 13 Emmy trophies, is the director and producer of the documentary "Spielberg". She kept making documentary suggestions to Spielberg, and finally got consent. Perhaps it was because Spielberg was 70 years old that year. He jokingly said, "It is easier to make a documentary than to sit down and write an autobiography."
Although it was approved for shooting, it was still not easy to complete the film. Because Spielberg is too busy, in more than a year, he has run all over the world, and Susanna Lacey can only chase all over the world. Almost 30 hours of exclusive interviews were completed in various places.
However, it is said that they talked for two hours for the first time and have not yet come out of Spielberg's childhood.
After all, childhood is too important for masters or ordinary people. In particular, the perspective of children plays such an important role in Spielberg's films.
Spielberg considers himself a Bohemian who grew up in the suburbs. Because there is a mother like Peter Pan, so my childhood is full of fantasy. However, in the process of growing up, he felt that he was a lonely child early. At that time, there was a tree outside the bedroom window, and the shadow of the tree in the dark night became the demon in Little Spielberg's heart. He has too many fantasies and fears that need to be released. When he discovered that through movies, he could scare everyone, his three sisters finally got relief. The great white shark in 1975 became a nightmare for many people.
The youngest director to sign a contract in history was rejected when he applied for the film academy. So he sneaked into the studio, and the "Hands of the New Generation of Hollywood" wandered around in Universal Studios while teaching himself.
It was the golden age of Hollywood, and the door suddenly opened. In addition to Spielberg, there were Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas. The enthusiasm for movies brought everyone together. . This kind of fanaticism and genius came out in large numbers, just like Paris in the 1920s.
This group of young people who were crazy about movies succeeded in the end. They ruled Hollywood movies since then and wrote their own legends in light and shadow.
Movies are produced one by one, and the personal life tribulations, perceptions of identity and changes in the times outside of the film are also broken up and put into their own works.
More than forty years later, it was through this film that Susanna Lacey discovered that this great director who was considered too successful in business because he did not bring his own unique soul into the film is a great director. The real movie author.
She saw Spielberg's shadow and his own story in every Spielberg film.
And this, maybe even Spielberg didn't realize it himself. It wasn't until Susanna Lacey penetrated these tentative questions into his heart that he suddenly understood, "I thought that was the way I thought 30 years ago."
For Spielberg, a 30-hour interview, It's like a "Gestalt therapy" (Gestalt therapy). He said that this documentary helped him connect many things together and filled many gaps in his life.
Susanna Lacey juxtaposes Spielberg’s creative trajectory and his life journey, and in mutual reflection, tells us the source of many themes and scenes in Spielberg’s movies, and also presents Spielberg. Own life story.
The amazing thing is that, just like his movies, his life is also full of the themes of fantasy, sadness, loss and salvation, but whether it is his personal dreams or his family, everything returns to a happy ending in the end. It's like the moving Hollywood story he is best at.
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