indiana jones
STEVEN SPIELBERG’s Earliest Films are better than yours.
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946)[1] film director and producer. Two time Oscar winner (and victim of the Oscar Snub) and one of the most influential filmmakers in history.
I’ve been a fan of Steven Spielberg since I was about 5 years old, when I first saw the films JAWS. But I’ve never have seen his earliest works, until I looked up and realized You Tube had them. What don’t they have that isn’t MGM related material anyways ?
I have ran across a few people from time to time that decry the man and say it’s all BS and yes, it’s usually from the Art House Crowd wannabe who can’t see past the rose colored brain disorder they seem to have. If it ain’t Tarkovsky or Wenders, it’s crap ! Don’t get me wrong, I love those guys but if one cannot look at Schindler’s List and just not accept the genius, then you must be an idiot.
Speaking of Ray Carney, anti film fan with the thickest pair of rose colored goggles you’ll ever find and who has said that “Spielberg’s films lack depth and do not take risks”. Schindler’s didn’t take a risk ? The Color Purple didn’t take a risk ? Oh yes Ray, those films are sure blockbusters. Ray! You’re missing the point badly. It’s okay to like more than one type of cinema style or genre.
Before we get to the films …
My favorite(s)
Jaws (My GOAT)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Top 30 Ever)
1941 (Yes, absurd, but a timeless film from my childhood.)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Top 20 Ever)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Poltergeist (Phantom Director)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jurassic Park (The T-REX scene alone seals the deal)
Schindler’s List (2nd Best Film Ever for me)
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan (Top 20 Ever)
Minority Report
Munich (Top 30 Ever)
War of the Worlds
Not Favorites, but worth the time
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
Always
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Catch Me if You Can
The Terminal
Bad
Hook
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Sorry Steven. George’s involvement with Indiana Jones has screwed up the entire thing.)
Amblin
Amblin’ is a short film released in 1968. It is the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short story set during late ’60s about a young couple who meet up in the desert, become friends, then lovers and make their way to a paradisiacal beach.
A young guy, carrying a closely guarded guitar case, hooks up with a free spirited girl when hitchhiking across the desert in southern California en route to the Pacific coast. Along the way, the man engaged the girl in an olive spitting contest and the girl initiates the guy into the joys of cannabis smoking and sex in a sleeping bag. As the pair reach the beach, the guy frolics in the surf and the girl checks out the contents of his guitar case: a suit and tie, toothpaste, mouthwash, a roll of toilet paper and a copy of Arthur Clarke’s The City and the Stars. The girl smiles in bemusement, perhaps sensing all along that her companion was a geek. She then proceeds to stand up and leave the beach, leaving the man behind.
ESCAPE TO NOWHERE
WW2 Super 8. Just like the ones I used to make when I was 14. Except not as good.
FIRELIGHT
Firelight is a 1964 science fiction adventure film. It was written by Steven Spielberg at the age of 16 and he directed it on a budget of $600. The film was his first commercial success, was shown at a local cinema and generated a profit of $100.
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As a child, growing up in Santizzle, Ca (San Diego, County) movies always became a way of escape for me, and to this day, whether writing about them, watching them or making them (of which I don’t do enough due to undiagnosed ADD and the life excuse lazy train), movies have always been a part of my life.
Harrison Ford for a long time, was my man. The epitome of the action hero, bad mofo. Seeing Star Wars for the first time and entering Han Solo in the Cantina left an indelible impression on me. I remember playing on the playground as a 7 year, pretending to be Han Solo.
VISUAL LANGUAGE – Raiders of the Lost Ark
I first saw this film in 7th grade and it was then that I realized there was someone called a director. Fresh off the critically panned and commercial bomb of 1941 (I love that film!) the film told the tale of an archeologist and adventurer named Indiana Jones who is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis do.
Indy One Sheet
I remember the trailers on television “Indiana Jones, the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS!”. The film blew my mind. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Spielberg would be robbed by the Academy.
This scene study is simple, yet very effective. Read a passage from the script and decide how you would block this one out. How many cuts ? What kind of coverage ? Then we’ll take a look at the scene, shot by shot.
