Why Do All Steven Spielberg Movies Feel The Same?
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2023
- Steven Spielberg is widely considered one of the greatest film directors of all time. With a filmography containing countless classics like Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Indian Jones, and countless others. Steven Spielberg has done one thing better than any other director. His sense of wonder and imagination brings films to life in a way no one else can replicate. Steven Spielberg not only invented the modern blockbuster, but has continued to elevate his craft almost 40 years after his initial debut.
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He actually did some of the best, most fun and rewatchable movies of all time. Family movies, thriller action movies, war movies, sci fi, he did everything
It's like Spielberg has been a child his entire career as a filmmaker, never losing that inner kid and sense of curiosity about the world. That's why his films feel immensely nostalgic.
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Depends on the project. Schindler's List, Amistad, & Saving Private Ryan feature a different kind of Spielberg.
@@astroboirapI don't know if you noticed, but people are talking about his career, not his personal life.
@@astroboirapwtf?
@@astroboirapi mean don't label every entertainer ever as a pedophile if you haven't even talked to that person irl.
I love how Spielberg shot "ET" from a kids' perspective, with low angled shots and not showing many of the adults' faces, to show alienation.
Dee Wallace is the only adult face we see prior to the reveal of Peter Coyote.
He also put E.T in the movie, to show an alien.
It's incredible how Spielberg was able to adapt to modern technology while remaining old-school
@@astroboirapThe hell? I've never seen anyone say that. Are you saying this because he's Jewish?
@@andrebrynkus2055 Hollywood has stopped pandering to straight white men, which greatly upsets him. Therefore, Hollywood bad, and since pedophillia is the most evil thing he can think of, he accuses Hollywood of being full of peadophiles.
YES!!!!!! That's it, exactly! Excellently stated, Zombie!
That dolly zoom on Chief Brody in Jaws is one of my favorite movie moments ever. Absolutely iconic.
The greatest moment in his filmography is the moment Dr. Ellie turns Alan Grant head toward the source of the noise. Not the moment immediately after, when the source is reveled to be a living brachiosaurus, but that one moment he sees it. That one moment immediately before seeing the impossible is literally whatever anyone looks for when entering a movie theater. That one moment is the whole thing, what the entire art and industry are worth existing for. When you are on the verge on wonder, and then you see the wonder. That is one of the 10 greatest things ever filmed by the entire humankind. It shaped my childhood, and in some form my entire generation.
She’s an ugly horse face bitch the acting sucks but then again nobody went to see Jurassic crap for the acting commie Jew made it just prove he could still box office he makes juvenile shit like ready player one at his age again that he can still do box office hits plus the dummy went to Cuba visited Castro and said it was a great day dumb commie kike
He hasn't changed his old school method and feel to this day. The hazey look, the oners, the usage of wide shot, the scenes when the characters are in awe are all in his recent films. The Fabelmans is the the best example.
At best those are superficial similarities, "motifs" like the "Kubrick stare" Kubrick used repeatedly throughout his career, the overall "bigger picture" eg. message, genre, tone etc, have all changed drastically.
Strange, I was just thinking about this a few days ago. Some of the best movies exude this sense of wonder and heart. They’re the ones that stick with you your entire life and Steven nailed this constantly.
Jurassic Park is, hands down, my favourite movie of all time. And to me, that fact earns Steven a LOT of goodwill 😊
This is what makes him such a great pair with John Williams. Spielberg can film wonder, John Williams knows what it sounds like.
Steven Spielberg is THE most taken for granted filmmaker in the history of Hollywood. He has been consistently been putting out quality films to the public for nearly half a century. His cinematic crime is that his is unpretentious and not an in-your-face personality. He's not considered a religious icon like George Lucas nor a "rock star" like Quentin Tarantino. If you want to throw stones at filmmakers whose movies feel alike: Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson are much more deserving targets. They almost never veer out of their comfort zones or REALLY take risks or shake things up. Steven is Steven: unpretentious and making enjoyable and/or meaningful films. Cinema as it has been for the last half century would not exist as it is without him.
He is the most taken for granted filmmaker but at the same time the most popular and celebrated. You take a random person on the street who even lacks interests in films, to name a director. Steven Spielberg is the first name that will pop up.
Spielberg and other such visionary film directors have been my inspiration to get into the film industry in any field but because I have learning disabilities with a low I.Q., Slight Asperger's, OCD and high anxiety for all my life these dreams of mine never came true and it's a dream since I had since I was a teenager, I'm 41, almost 42 I know my dreams will never come true but I love filmmaking as an art and everything that goes into them behind the scenes.
Filmmakers like Spielberg are in a very short supply nowadays
Hollywood needs the old-school titans more than ever now
He is one the GOATs, no doubt. I think he hit his peak in 90s, but I think despite his last two movies, he's got at least one more great movie in him.
He shows a level of craft that most modern film-makers simply don't have.
The reveal of the Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park ❤
I always thought John Williams should've won the Oscar for best original music for JP. When I finally found out the truth, it really was the only excuse I could've accepted.
That was a crazy good year for Spielberg (and Williams for that matter). There have been a few directors who released multiple classics in the same year (Coppola, Mel Brooks, Steven Soderbergh), but Spielberg’s were so wildly different from each other.
Yeah, it’s tough to feel too bad considering Williams lost to himself lol. Williams and Spielberg were just on a totally different level compared to everyone else that year
I was the perfect age when the original JP released. Seeing that T-Rex for the first time is by far my favorite scene.
Steven Spielberg is a legend, the cinema would not be the same without him.
Fun Fact: In Close Encounters, during the dinner scene, just before Roy piles on the mashed potatoes, the little girl Silvia says: "There's a dead fly in my potatoes." This was unscripted and almost caused the rest of the cast to laugh.
I was so surprised to see Speilburg directed one of the first Columbo stories. I had started watching it early this year and thought his episode was really good but didn't understand why until I saw his name in the credits.
There is a documentary showing Hayao Miyazaki's process on Ponyo and he shares a similar wonder in his films. There is a moment where he discovers the perfect hero image for the film and then expands it from there. I feel like Spielberg takes a similar approach.
Beautiful video, thank you for making it
Love this channel’s unique perspective on film and tv. We need a secret invasion breakdown next
Please, more directors inside. This is really good.
Dude, no mention of having *John Williams* doing the score for his movies??
Also, most wondrous moment he's ever created on film: every second from the moment Alan Grant takes off his hat till John Hammond says "I'll show you." And Williams brings in half the heat!
Indian Jones is my favorite movie series of all time. Right behind Staph Wars.
Was that about a plague? 😁
So true... and when did we last see a major film with the same level of wonderment and pure entertainment?
Some of the first films I ever watched were Indiana Jones, E.T., and Jurassic Park and I would watch them over and over again as a kid. By middle school, I was reading every book on Spielberg and his films that I could find and he's now my filmmaking idol and the main influence for me wanting to become a filmmaker myself. I hope I get to work with him some day or at the very least, meet him.
If there was ever anything good that came out of Hollywood it's the way Mr Spielberg took on Drew Barrymore and gave her a dad figure...Mr Spielberg I salute you for that righteousness that doesn't get displayed enough...
Old-school filmmaking at its finest
Duel is one of my favorites of his. It makes a great Double Feature with Jaws.
2 moments that make Jaws: the reveal as it passes by the ship with that Arabic hook in the main theme. Then the "He's come back for his noon feeding" sequence as the shark passes forward and Quint racing to get off his harpoon shot from the bow. Those moments capture the wonder.
I'll vote for the moment Indiana Jones lights up the model in the map room and light beams on the floor. That with John Williams score is a wonderful shot and still gives me goosebumps
I STILL watch Jaws to this day.
I have the DVD and will throw it on from time to time.
I was 8 when JP came out. I remember the theater in my neighborhood would come to my school all the time to give out free tickets or discounts and I can't even count how many times I went to see it. I went with my mom, I went with my sister, I went with friends, I went alone. It was just an intoxicating experience. God bless Steven Spielberg! Nothing can't take away what he has achieved.
Just going to say. I love almost all of Speilbergs movies starting with DUEL. Some of his more recent movies are not ones I go back to but still, they were ok. The guy is a master and I have probably combined watched his movies over 200 times in my life (no life, clearly).
Spielberg lost his mojo in the past two decades. I can't think of a memorable movie from him during those times. The last great movie of his was Munich which was in 2005 and since then his film making quality declined until recently The Fabelmans. It could be age getting to him but I still like him.
Nice video bruh ❤
I immediately hit the "Subscribe" button the moment when the video included "Poltergeist" among the best examples of Spielberg's sense of wonder as a director. Because it's obvious he directed it.
Good Explination
It's been a long time since I got excited about a Spielberg movie. I think the last time was Jurassic Park, and that was in 1993.
I think Schnedliers List was his first movie that took a slightly different approach to the directing he had been doing before. It was more more mature with themes never attempted and was less about wonder than exploring the human conscious.
Spielberg is a titan and has been responsible for so many of my memorable cinema moments (I always say that "E.T" was the first movie I saw in theatres, when it was actually "The Care Bears Movie" one week before! BTW my father fell asleep in that movie and his sleep apnea caused some disturbance!) Still, he doesn't always hit, but then who does? Still one of the major reasons I love movies.
I gotta admit... His work is really amazing.
Spielberg knew how to maximize the moment of wonder by letting the actors natural reaction be a part of the film. This happens in the “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” scene from Jaws and when the Goonies see the pirate ship for the first time. All first take reactions. I’m sure there’s many more I don’t know of as well.
Wonder my favorite film from Spielberg ❤
Sugarland didn't "get him the chance to do jaws", that was due to fact that the director they originally wanted was fired because he kept calling the shark a whale 💀
Never change a winning strategy.
Spielberg knew how to brand. You can include many other films he produced but didn't direct in this video, as well: GREMLINS, CASPER, TWISTER, TRANSFORMERS, all about normal people getting thrust into fantastical scenarios where the entities aren't altogether threatening.
Absolutely correct 👌
Weird that saving private Ryan and Schindler's list isn't mentioned in this
I believe Spielberg is best at keeping the audience engaged with suspense by never relieving the monster/thing in question too soon, or ever at all. By relieving a monster or fictional character that poses a hence of danger or curiosity too early on we lose that sense of wonder and imagination he captures so well. In Jaw we don’t actually see the shark until more than half way through the film and wonder how big and scary this creature really is. In Close Encounters we don’t fully see the aliens, and in Jurassic Park, at the very beginning we don’t see or even know that it’s a velociraptor, just something extreme vicious and lethal.
Along with Kubrick, my two childhood filmmaking heroes that remained unsurpassed IMHO in their element to this day.
The day Steven leaves us will be an unbearable day for movie making. Don’t even want to think about it. :(
They don’t feel the same, he’s tackled so many different genre of films & they all feel unique.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way - the point of this video is that Spielberg has a certain touch and style as a director that comes through, no matter how varied his filmography is content and genre-wise. That particular Spielberg feel is nothing but a positive thing!
They feel the same. All his movies suffer from the same pacing problem: rushed finale. For example War of The Worlds, Minority Report and Jurassic Park all have the same pacing. They start so strong. Especially War of the Worlds. But then they lose their tension and scary atmosphere. The finale then lasts only a couple minutes and then the movie ends. I say Zack Snyder and Guy Ritchie are versatile directors who can direct movies with different feel. Different colour grading and pacing, etc.
@@noobbotgaming2173 completely disagree, I’ve never found pacing problems with his films, especially not in Jurassic park
You could say this about any director. All of his movies are very different. He just has a unique filmmaking style just like other directors.
I love Spielberg, among the greatest directors ever certainly! His most magical moment hmmm...hundreds, maybe an entire movie ''Hook'' (one his most underrated) ; please, could somebody answer me what in the world happened to the lightning in his movies since Saving Private Ryan?! Is the problem with Kaminski, his cinematographer or with Spielberg? Why all his movies from that point on have lights as if reflected from a battery light pointed at something inside a toilet? That too bright, blinding, je ne sais quoi poor, artificial lightning? Many great scenes but simply devoid of life and believability because of that awkward lightning? What happened? Many people have problems with that and they separate Spielberg before 2000 and after 2000? If anybody has some sort of an explanation, please? Lovely video by Nerdstalgic btw!
I think the most GENIUS thing Spielberg ever did occurred while he was making JAWS! 🦈 When that mechanical shark (“Bruce”) notoriously kept breaking down during filming, he figured out a clever, alternate way to still feature the film’s antagonist on screen … but _without_ even using the actual prop itself … by shooting the underwater scenes from different angles, making them appear as if they were being seen from the shark’s POV, while simultaneously using John Williams’ iconic 2-tone motif theme to maintain a high level of suspense! (the opening scene with poor Chrissy being claimed as it’s first victim is the prime example here…) 🤩 Absolutely BRILLIANT! 👌👏🎬
You forgot to mention that his masterpiece, "Schindler's List", is a notable exception to that wondrous feeling
Spielberg is why we go to the movies.
He has a signature style technique
Motherfucker I been sayin that Steven Spielbergs movies have such a specific wonderous feeling to them and I appreciate seeing this
Minority Report still being slept on till this day
Good points, but show me "wonder" in Munich. This has always felt like his "zombie movie" to me as it doesnt have the same heartnsoul as his others. I think what you say is on point in all of his films, except for that one.
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The War of the Worlds must have been an easy one for Spielberg because it H.G. Wells already instilled the fear/wonder element into it.
Love it
Shindliers list and Jurassic park don’t feel the same, they were filmed at roughly the same time.
Nazis are kind of like dinosaurs I guess....
Put Stephen and Wonder together, you get “Stevie Wonder”.
Tintin is in my opinion still the best animated movie of the 2010s, maybe second behind Spiderverse.
His movies have a sense of awe and wonder that most of today’s movies don’t have anymore.
Indiana jones, ordinary?
The Fabelmans should've won Best Picture at Oscars.
I love ur vids
I wanna know if Catch me if you can was as same as Minority report?
"Sold." It's actually "How Steven Spielberg SOLD "Wonder""
Past tense.
Not necessarily. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are both easily his best works imo and they feel very different from each other as well
So, his movies are a therapeutic representation of his pain or catharsis?
His latest works like Ready Set Player didn't meet expectations even though it used the same elements. It felt more like him kowtowing to modern audiences and cheapening out the quality.
He didn't direct "Poltergiest", but the whole movie is full of that level of 'Wonder' because the supernatural threat is both benign and demonic.
Unlike in most Horror flicks (Supernatural) where it's always malevolent. This almost makes it a "family movie", bizarrely. Same with E.T.
The threat is the gov't...
Nerdstalgic: THEY DON"T!
Love me some Indian Jones, my favourite Spielberg Bollywood movie xD
I've not seen many of his movies. The first two being Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. This title is confusing. I guess it's just an exaggeration, and I haven't watched enough of his movies. Also, "Indian Jones" in the description 🤣.
you should watch ET
I wish my parents would've waited till I was 19 to divorce and not 9. Fekin baby Steven.
He's the only one who can make a better Star Wars movie!
GOAT 80s and 90s, not a fan of his post 2000s work.
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The most wondrous moment in a Steven Spielberg movie is when ET makes the bikes fly
Spielberg at his weakest is still stronger than most filmmakers at their best.
1941 is a better film than any of the MCU movies.
If Spielberg is fear and wonder,what is James Cameron,🧐
Steven Spielberg can do no wrong.
his imagination is Universe
They're fairy stories, journeys into the Perilous Realm, as Tolkien describes it, filled with horror and romance, fear and wonder
*Focus* 🤨 could you say that again?
The question is, Who Doesn't Like Steven Spielberg Movies?!!!
From what I've seen of his films, I agree and he's one of my favorite directors. However, Spielberg follows Hollywood's desire for happy endings so much that filmmaker Alex Cox described him as a confectioner.
Because… it’s the same director? Just like every Nolan film or M Night film or Apatow film. It’s the exact same thing with video game developers and book authors.
Creators have a very predictable and consistent style.
Imagine an alternate universe in which Spielberg directed Harry Potter...
He should've took over after Columbus. Would've done a way better job than David Yates
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I totally get that. All of the films are flawed, but I have the most issues with how the later ones were adapted. That being said, they also happen to be some of my favorites. I do really like how he shifted the tone much darker after Voldemort's return. I think a lot of that was done really well, I just very much wish it were better.
@elijahe7612 I don't know if it was the writing or directing but the later films were so awkward and slow paced with the dialogue and how it was delivered to the point where the acting as a whole almost took a step back too. The first two films under Columbus were dark but it was still magical and more mysterious. The later films became more "Mugglefied" imo
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I find it difficult to blame the writing, since they were all written by the same guy except for the fifth one. I think above all else, it comes down to how difficult it is to adapt a book properly, especially with so much material to work with and such high expectations from a built-in fan base. They very much could be better, but I can't help but feel astonished that they're as good as they are, with how much needs to be cut down just to fit the runtime of a film, which even that ends up being above average length. There were a million things working against them for every single film, which just makes me appreciate more that they were able to accomplish anything even coherent. Everyone that worked on them genuinely cared about the films and the material so much, and it really comes through to the final product that they really gave their all, however flawed it may be. The whole film series is definitely fallible, and I often think about what they could've or should've done better, but I always go back to the appreciation for what we got.
What do I think? I think that Spielberg is a self-obsessed old man who's completely lost his edge.
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All Spielberg films feel the same? Wut