Essays on Steven Spielberg

Analyse of the film ‘saving private Ryan’ concerning the use of sound and how the sound has helped to portray the war. As a case study, we will look at two movies from a different era the 1962 film ‘The Longest Day’ and 1998 ‘Saving…

Adam Goldberg is everyone’s favorite ‘weird guy next door’ actor and he has starred in an incredible array of movies and TV shows over the course of his career. His portfolio is teeming with dozens of credits across different genres from comedy to drama, horror,…

The movie Schindler’s List was directed by Steven Spielberg, and was published on December 25, 1993. In 1993, Steven Spielberg brought a story that had gone untold since the tragic events of the Holocaust to the screens. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi party member, and,…

The distinguishable types of camera shots are dealt with efficiently throughout both films to interpret the theme of man vs nature and the tension that is built around it. In the film Jaws, the beach scene begins with a long shot of the boy, Alex,…

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…

This movie was going to be originally directed by Steven Spielberg but was later on passed to Clint Eastwood. It was the comeback of Clint to the Hollywood after his last movie ‘Trouble with the Curve’ in 2012. It is based on the autobiography of…

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…

Main Characters and Descriptions Alan Grant- Alan Grant is a “barrel-chested, bearded man of forty”, he is a college professor in Denver. He sees himself as an outdoorsman and knows all the important work in paleontology. Grant is patient with academics and doesn’t believe in…

Cloning Dinosaurs Appeared a smart thought. Until the point when the principal guests arrived, the Dinosaurs got away, and the activity starts. Jurassic Stop Steven Spielberg’s Science fiction experience featuring Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum was 1993’s best film industry worker. This film was one…

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…