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Too many people review Spielberg’s latest movie or an old classic. Some even do these retrospectives of his career. Ranging from his early short films Firelight and Amblin’ to his latest summer blockbuster. Yet what is behind all that? Who has really gone into detail into how or why he is inspired? This will be about what influenced him to make these films. His career needs a deeper look beneath all the hope and imagination behind them. The movies that shaped his style of film making and the themes he explores in each film.
It is said he watches four cinema classics each time he does a new film. They are said to be It’s A Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra. David Lean’s classic film Lawrence of Arabia. The John Ford movie The Searchers. Along with Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. This is what these series of articles intends to explore. Why Spielberg loves these films so much and why he keeps going to back to them each time. Of course, how he later incorporated elements of these films into his own also. Sure, there books about Spielberg and his films. Yet this column will strive to be something different.
These four films were important to his development as a director in some way or another. However, there should be a probe into why. Spielberg rarely ever does commentary tracks on the DVD releases of his own films. Also, there is a television special, Spielberg on Spielberg featured on Turner Classic Movies. Yet it only has Spielberg devote a few minutes to talk about each of his films. Not enough time to truly go in depth about what makes him tick as a film maker. Maybe Spielberg does not wish to go in depth about his films. That is his choice.
However, many fans do wish to know. Whether they are fans who just want to learn more about their favorite director. Or whether some young aspiring film maker wants to learn more about the craft. The decisions made by the best film maker of all time. Will be the intended focus of this Steven Spielberg column here at Examiner. His movies are the most powerful to ever grace the screen. It is time to take a look behind the curtain. To see what kind of director Spielberg is. It is the kind of peek you do not get from just observing a film.
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