Tuesday, September 16, 2008

One “Different” Man


Who’s a creative person? I already found him. One of them is Steven Allan Spielberg. I think almost all people even who rare watching movie know Steven Spielberg. He was born on December 18, 1947, Ohio. He was growing up in Arizona. He was given an inexpensive Kodak movie camera when he was 12, which spurred his imagination; liked to create and film train wrecks on his toy railroad. He’d made his eight minutes amateur movie called The Last Gun. By the age of 22, Spielberg was signed up by Universal. He had his own way to make films into the industry by sneaking away from a tour of Universal studios, finding an abandoned janitor's back room, doing it up as an office and turning up for work every day until someone mistakenly gave him some work to do. In reality, it was a 26-minute movie called Amblin' that scored him his big chance. The film was a prize-winner at the Atlanta Film Festival and won Steven his 7-year contract with Universal.

As a director, producer and writer he’s the most successful of all time. His films are so popular, and consistently entertaining. But don’t you know he had a “dark past life”? Even, me as his fans, newly know when I wrote this blog. He had Asperger’s Syndrome. There would be an emotional side to his story-telling, too, and a vaguely autobiographical one. Many of Spielberg's films feature kids in distress and that aforementioned distant father. This mirrors Steven's own relationship with Arnold that has a bad relationship. On one moment, Arnold brought a tiny transistor home and showed it to Steven and told him it was the future. Steven took it then put it in his mouth and, washing it down with milk, not forgets to swallow it. Eventually, Divorce followed. Steven would shove towels under his door to keep out the noise of the arguments. He'd later serve on the Advisory Board of the Boy Scouts of America, only to quit over a perceived discrimination against homosexuals and become an Eagle Scout. Yet Spielberg was twice turned down for the prestigious film course at the University of Southern California, instead studying English at California State University at Long Beach, then moving into film. He also has boyhood fears, including a tree outside his window, formed the basis for Poltergeist which he wrote and produced.

I think he is a creative man. Based on his past, he’s really got no hope in future if he followed the line. He knows what he wants, and he must get what he wants in his way. He owns creative way to get the rare change, like we can say when he's sneaking at Universal Studio. His films are different with other directors. He creates film by think creative and wider his imagination. Many his films are inspired by his experience that I can say, no good. He makes his crazy idea into the film like UFO, Space or War. By years and years, he creatively thinks to adapt more technology animation to increase the quality of his film. I think he’s the best at that. When he made a film, it’s not always focus on the TECH. but he can makes an ordinary film becomes extraordinary in story or packaging, even the cartoon one with his out-of-box thinking. He wants to generate “masterpieces and Extra-ordinary works

The most I like of his films are: The Terminal, Transformers, Saving Private Ryan and E.T. The terminal film is wonderful although only has one setting, airport, but it feels like I can’t look on the other side. It has a very good story and qualified picture. On Transformers, I can say it was the best animation film that I had seen. He implements very good technology and different idea on that. The animation is very detail and look like real. When I watched E.T, I was still in elementary but I like it very much, the idea of the story is like impossible and crazy. Last is Saving Private Ryan. The story is very simple, only to help Ryan, but with war background which make me want to watch again.

If the director of film is him, I always want to see it to know what next creative idea he had.