Essays on Steven Spielberg

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 movie directed by Steven Spielberg with a nonlinear plot that revolves around Frank Abagnale, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, forging checks and posing as various people in Europe. Abagnale is pursued by Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent until…

The director Steven Spielberg of the movie “Catch Me if You Can” is widely known for his earlier works like Jaws, Jurassic Park, Bridge of Spies, etc… Jeff Nathanson as the scriptwriter and Janusz Kaminski as the cinematographer have both expressed some of the scenes…

Before I watched the film “Catch me if you can” I looked up some information about the film. The film from 2002 is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, who also directed the classics: “E.T., BFG, Jaws, Jurassic Park” and plenty more. In this film…

Severing Traditional Gender Roles The status and portrayal of women have drastically fluctuated throughout the history of cinema. Women have experienced social repression within society, the cementation of domestication, a striking empowerment of sexual prowess and allure, and the gradual equality of gender roles portrayed…

The Effect of Music in the Movie Jaws Music has always been noted as a powerful tool when it is utilized properly. Music can change set the mood, or even change the atmosphere. This is a particularly important property when it comes to movies. Music…

Causality, Determinism, and Freedom The film Minority Report presents the idea of an America without murder, supplemented by the use of “precogs,” who are able to see into the future and predict murders before they happen. In the first act of the film, we see…

Spielberg is a director who uses his own likings and funky elements in his films. Throughout the semester we viewed plenty of Spielberg’s movies with the technological aspect, which ultimately was seen throughout the film. He liked to add the futuristic elements in his films…

It took Ernest Cline 10 years to write Ready Player One. There were times he thought he would never finish the manuscript, let alone publish it. But the novel, mostly set in a global online pleasure world called Oasis, went on to become a bestseller…