Notes to talk about Spielberg

1. Steven
Spielberg notes
For my (one episode) podcast
project.

2. Titles Spielberg directed.
• Firelight (1964)
• Amblin' (1968)
• Night Gallery (1969)
• Duel (1971)
• Something Evil (1972)
• Savage (1973)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Jaws (1975)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978)
• 1941 (1979)
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
• ET (1982)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Doom (1984)
• The Color Purple (1986)
• Empire of the Sun (1988)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Always (1989)
• Hook (1991)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Schindler's List (1994)
• Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997)
• Amistad (1997)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2003)
• The Terminal (2004)
• War Of The Worlds (2005)
• Munich (2006)
• Indiana Jones the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull (2008)
• The Adventures Of Tintin (2011)
• War Horse (2012)
• Lincoln (2012)
• Bridge of Spies (2015)
• The BFG (2016)
• The Post (2018)
• Ready Player One (2018)

3. Titles Spielberg was an Exciter Producer for
• Poltergeist (1982)
• E.T. (1982)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Gremlins (1/2)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Back to the Future (1/2/3)
• The Money Pit (1986)
• An American Tail (1986)
• Batteries Not Included (1987)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Three O-Clock (1987)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• The Land Before Time (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Always (1989)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Men In Black (1997)
• Amistad (1997)
• Ai Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• The Terminal (2004)
• Monster House (2006)
• The Lovely Bones (2009)
• True Grit (2010)
• Super 8 (2011)
• The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
• The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
• Jurassic World (1/2)
• Bridge of Spies (2015)
• Ready Player One (2018)
• First Man (2018)

4. TV shows Spielberg worked on
• Amazing stories (1986)
• SeaQuest DSV
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Falling Skies
• Freakazoid
• United States of Tara
• Taken
• Five Came Back
• Animaniacs
• Band of brothers

5. Upcoming Projects
• 'West Side Story'/10 December 2021/Inspired by 'Rome + Juliet', tells the story of two lovers with the con of a rivalry between
two gangs in New York.
• 'Maestro'/2021/
• 'Jurassic World: Dominion'/10 June 2022/ Details have been kept under wrap,. Actors who will return for the next installment
include Sam Neill (Allan Grant) and Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler)
• Indiana Jones 5/29 July 2022/Harrison Ford will reprise his role as Dr Jones continuing from the fourth.
• 'The Fabelmans'/2022
• 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara'/adapted from the David Kertzer's book about a man in the 50's-60's who had been
kidnapped and secretly baptized by a priest.
• 'Chocky'/A young kid who can communicate with an extraterrestrial being.
• 'The 39 Clues'/Following the lives of characters Amy and Dan, a series of adventure novels will be grouped together in
collaboration for this title.
• 'Pirate Latitudes'/Captain Charles Hunter hunting Spanish treasure.
• 'When Worlds Collide'/ Plot being an apocalypse striking the Earth.
• 'It's What I Do'/Starring Jennifer Lawrence.
• 'Cortes'/Following a Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes we will be exploring the Aztec Empire and his relationship with the Aztec
ruler.

6. Quick Biography
Stephen Allan Spielberg is an American film director, producer and
screenwriter. Beginning his career in the 'New Hollywood era' becoming now
one of the most commercially successful directors and producers in
cinematic history. Spielberg is also one of the co-founders of Amblin
Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios.
As a child, Spielberg would sneak onto the Universal Studios and during a
tour he befriended an editor who showed him a few things on filmmaking.
Spielberg grew the interest in becoming a filmmaker when he was only a
child, so during his teens he published a 40-minute war movie for a film
festival in 1962. "Escape to Nowhere." Winning first prize starting off his
soon-to-be career.

7. Styles and Techniques
Spielberg's filming style includes using zoom and fluid camera
movement when it comes to shifting shots, only using a single camera
setup working without cutting.
"The Spielberg face" is a (not widespread) cinematic term used for
expression which would be used at least three times throughout every
of the director's films. Eyes and mouth open but not too wide, in shock
at something off-screen.
Inspired by Stanley Kubrick, Steven works like a chameleon in the film
industry as he likes to take different techniques and styles found from a
range of other directors and put them all together for film-making.

8. The Spielberg Face

9. Fact page
• Voted the 11th best Director by Entertainment Weekly.
• Spielberg re-popularized the "dolly zoom" being his most used camera technique.
• Spielberg refused to be paid for the work on 'Schindlers List' considering the money to be "Blood Money"
due to the holocaust.
• Wants to be known for E.T. and Schindlers List.
• Favourite curse word is "Rats."
• Refuses to watch a film cut of his films without music.
• He is the first living person to have a playable Lego character modelled after him.
• Has a phobia of "furniture with feet."
• Owns one of the largest gun collections on the East Coast.
• Had the idea for the rating PG-13 due to Gremlins and Indiana Jones were called to be too scary for children.
• Was never diagnosed for dyslexia till he turned 60.
• Casted his own dog, Elmer, who is a Cocker Spaniel in many of his movies.