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From "biting his nails and fiddling with the camera at age 4" to "one of Hollywood's greatest directors" , Steven Spielberg 's life began on December 18, 1946, in a Jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father He was one of the first computer engineers in the world, and his mother was a pianist.
Spielberg's dual pursuit of technology and art in his later film career also came from his father's teaching on technology and his mother's immersion in aesthetics.
Today is his 75th birthday, happy birthday, Lao Si.
Spielberg's dual pursuit of technology and art in his later film career also came from his father's teaching on technology and his mother's immersion in aesthetics.
Due to his father's position, Steven Spielberg needs to keep moving and changing schools (from New Jersey to Phoenix). His special Jewish identity and he is not a popular sports boy in the school makes him Pierberg's childhood was spent in a high degree of disorder.
Childhood When Laosi was five years old, his father took him to see the first movie "The King of Dramas" in his life. This musical film, which won the 52nd Academy Award for Best Picture, brought a great shock to Spielberg Jr., so that he has been committed to making the audio-visual effects of his films similar to the original "The King of Drama" since he directed it. It gave him an unforgettable impression.
Perhaps it was at the cinema that day that the father saw the light in his son's eyes. On his 12th birthday, his father gave him an 8mm pocket camera. With the first camera of his own in his life, Spielberg shot a 9-minute 8-millisecond short film "The Last Shootout". It is not difficult to see the boy's talent and talent from the reactions of his relatives and friends.
At the age of 16, Spielberg, who was in middle school, was able to write and direct a 140-minute film "Firelight" on his own. After the film was made, his father specially rented a theater for him to show it. The next day, he even earned $500.
Spielberg, who has further developed his film talents, should be admitted to a film school for further studies, but after tasting the sweetness, he became more and more addicted to filming. After all, human energy is limited, and his grades began to decline all the way, and he was eventually accepted by California. Universities are shut out.
His application to university was rejected and his parents divorced. In the following years, the goddess of fate seemed to have never favored him, but there was no way out. By chance, a rich man was willing to pay for this gifted "movie boy". In 1968, Spielberg used the money to shoot the short film "Amblin", which won the Atlanta Film Festival Award. At that time, the CEO of Universal happened to see the film and signed with him, which started Spielberg's long and brilliant film life.
personal style
When he grew up, Spielberg transformed his childhood sensitivity to the world around him into his sensitivity in artistic creation. When filmmakers of the same generation were imitating Coppola's "The Godfather", he commanded a huge team of artists. A team of filmmakers and a wayward robotic shark filmed his Jaws.
In those days when CG was unknown, "Jaws" stunned the film industry with a box office record of $410 million. As for the secret of its success, the film does not focus on the robot shark, but allows the audience to feel more fear and threat from underwater.
To this day, the shooting technique of intensifying the tension of the dramatic atmosphere and thus blurring the weak plot is still used by the majority of commercial film directors.
Then, Spielberg continued to let his fantasies capture the audience's psychology, starting in 1977, and directed the "Third Contact", "ET Alien", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" trilogy. These films have given the audience an unprecedented bizarre feeling with a story full of whimsy, and have achieved extremely high box office.
Childhood loneliness may have been the source of Spielberg's boundless imagination, as he discovered that daydreaming was the best way to deal with loneliness. "ET Alien" in 1982, as a story about people on earth coming into contact with creatures from outer space, gave American audiences a huge fantasy space and psychological stimulation at the time, and also turned this shy boy into a shy boy. America's most famous director.
Spielberg, who entered the 1990s, was even more non-stop, and his actions were amazing. In 1993, 18 years after the filming of "Jaws", Spielberg did not hesitate to use a huge cost of $6.3 million to create an even more jaw-dropping "monster" - "Jurassic Park".
Spielberg brings long-extinct dinosaurs back to life in this unprecedented film. Among them, the thrilling plot design and realistic digital special effects made the film set off a dinosaur fever and spread to Europe, Japan and even Hong Kong. The global box office harvest exceeded 900 million, once again breaking the highest box office record set by his "ET Alien".
From the menacing shark in Jaws to the alien creatures in ET Alien, from Raiders of the Lost Ark to the visual spectacle of 700 years in a flash to Jurassic Park Lifelike dinosaurs. Spielberg's ability to keep a close eye on the progress of the times, to be daring and good at seizing the opportunity to properly apply new technologies to films, has become one of his very important personal styles.
Since then, Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg have jointly established the "DreamWorks", which ranks among the eight major Hollywood film companies. Over the next few years, making movies became more of a lifestyle for Spielberg, who had entered a mature career. "Cat and Mouse," "Minority Report," "The Adventures of Tintin," "Washington Post" "Newspaper"... He lets his mind wander in various genres, and what is even more rare is that his films have basically achieved an organic combination of business and art, and they are really popular and popular.
As of May 2018, after "Ready Player One" achieved a global box office of $475 million, Spielberg was promoted to the first and only "ten billion directors" in the history of world cinema. Behind him are Peter Jackson (6.52 billion) and Michael Bay (6.414 billion).
seriousness after business
Despite his huge commercial success, Spielberg wanted to show that he was more than just a director of blockbuster entertainment.
In order to broaden his directing path, he directed the serious film "Purple" for the first time in 1985.
In this film, Spielberg abandoned those lighthearted stories and extracted the essence of the original novel, which truly reflected the tragic and stubborn life of a black woman. However, due to various reasons, the film, which was nominated for eleven items, failed to win at the Oscars that year. Of course, this would not discourage Spielberg. Two years later, he went to Shanghai to shoot "Empire of the Sun". , but bad luck, the work that was nominated for best picture by the American Film Critics Board once again missed the Oscars that year.
Spielberg, who has suffered repeated setbacks, did not take this for granted. In late 1993, when people flocked to the cinema with the impression of commercial blockbusters such as "Jaws", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park", they did not. Discovered another world of Spielberg, a world full of harsh realities, a world called Schindler's List.
Spielberg, who has Jewish blood flowing, has finally turned his camera on the concentration camp where 6 million Jews were murdered during World War II after ten years of preparation.
Knowing that this kind of cold and heavy subject was not favored by the box office, Spielberg still resolutely abandoned the best thing he used to do—movie stunts, and used black and white negatives and portable cameras.
Through the expression technique of color montage, on the one hand, the black and white images show the authenticity and cruelty of the tragic experience of the Jewish people; especially the little girl in red in the film has been raised to a new height. It is no longer a deliberate incitement to the audience's emotions, because history itself is already heavy enough.
Schindler's List was released in the United States in the first week of December 1993. The film is 197 minutes long. It's not the viewing time Americans are accustomed to, but this time most people treated the film with sanctity and courtesy. Many movie theaters have issued a "Code of Conduct" advising not to pick up popcorn buckets while watching a movie.
Critics who have long criticized Spielberg's films for their lack of depth have to admit that Schindler's List is the best and most complete drama of the Holocaust ever made.
On March 2, 1994, at the 66th Academy Awards Gala, the films "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List" included a total of nine statuettes. When Spielberg, the co-director of these two masterpieces, stepped onto the final podium, the audience stood up and applauded. On this night, he was always calm and reserved, and he couldn't help crying. The movie wizard finally got his wish and entered. The palace of film art.
In 1998, Spielberg settled down again and directed another film about World War II - "Saving Private Ryan".
The film has been regarded by many as "the best World War II movie". The half-hour-long landing battle in Normandy at the beginning of the film is dominated by highly realistic follow-up shots, focusing on shaping the realism of the war. The film was basically shot according to the real memories of military advisers. The whole war scene was real, tragic and magnificent. It was a milestone in modern war films, and it also brought him the second Oscar for Best Director in his life.
Spielberg once said: "I never deliberately label or define films. If I want to make a serious film, the subject matter is the decisive factor, such as "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan" ”, “Broken Lock and Rage”, etc., I would call them films; if I wanted to make a more entertaining subject, I would not call them entertainment films, I would call them movies.”
Therefore, he is not destined to become a director with strong authorship such as Kubrick and Leone, and it can even be said that most of his works have perfect correctness. But throughout his 50 years of directing career, there are not only "Jaws", "ET Alien", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" such as deafening commercial masterpieces, but also "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Rui" Well, "Munich", which exudes a strong humanistic flavor, as well as "Jurassic Park", "The Adventures of Tintin", and "Ready Player One", which are pioneering works that play with high technology. Looking at history, how many people are there?
Spielberg, who is 75 years old, still wears his signature smile when he appears in public. Some people say that he looks like a child when he smiles, some innocent, some sly, and seems to always have a sense of the world around him. With inexhaustible fantasy and enthusiasm.
Of course, nothing is inexhaustible, and everyone's interest and love will have a shelf life, but for Spielberg, his shelf life for movies, I think it will be 10,000 years.
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