Steven Spielberg is much more than good special effects, and the filmmaker has demonstrated this with his filmography for over 50 years.
When we talk about Steven SpielbergThe first thing that always comes to mind is his way of revolutionizing special effects in cinema, making them a key ingredient in his films. Although it is not the most important thing that we must take into consideration.
Although it’s not the only thing this filmmaker has illuminated, if I think about his filmography I can’t help but remember his science fiction films first. Of: ET, the extraterrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), or AI Artificial Intelligence (2001).
All of them stood out above all for their visual section, for the creatures they showed us, or for the worlds they created, how they managed to transport you to another universe and make it come true, through a mix of different technologies to make it possible.
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In recent times the use of practical effects was recovered in the industry and it seems to me to be a very wise decision, once again giving value to the shots obtained during filming so that, in the vast majority of cases, the visual effects They become an addition that serves to enrich the experience, without being the main element.
A more realistic and tangible final result is obtained. This made it possible for films like Shark (1975) remain close to this day, 50 years after their original premiere, offering audiences a very tangible experience.
Nostalgia as a determining factor
Of course, it’s not all about showing off technical muscles on screen, whatever the type. I believe that the nostalgia factor is something that we can never forget and that has made films like The Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) or The Goonies (1985) the emblem of an era.
Steven Spielberg’s production company, Amblin Entertainmentmarked a generation by building around 80 cinematographic films that we could say were idealized and which continued to be a reference when cinema looks to the past, as JJ Abrams was able to reflect in Super 8 (2011).
Thus, this time travel is based not only on the memory of a generation of a specific moment, but also through narration of historical events more or less known to the public, as occurred in: Schindler’s List (1993), Lincoln (2012) or The Pentagon Files (2017).
But this effect is also achieved through the transfer of other works to cinema, such as comics in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), the stories in My friend the giant (2016) or the novels in Ready Player One (2018), in the same way that happens with remakes of stories already enshrined in the collective imagination such as West Side History (2021).
Spielberg is for you, whatever you want
The sum of all these ingredients means that, in addition to appealing to nostalgia and stories known to his audience and easy to familiarize themselves with, Steven Spielberg is also capable of playing the most diverse roles, to be able to connect with all types of audiences, all ages.
If you like fantasy, Spielberg is for youbut if you prefer war films, Spielberg is for you too. Maybe you’re more into adventure, or intrigue, drama, comedy, romance. The answer is still Spielberg.
The filmmaker Have tried almost every genre over the decades, and certainly one of them is the one he likes the most, making his cinema eternal, because it remains relevant from generation to generation, opening the doors to his filmography through films that have nothing to do with each other.
All this brought us to the end until The Fabelmans (2022), the filmmaker’s most recent and personal commitment to being a kind of portrait of his own life.
A film that is simultaneously historical – in which the development of its characters shines, permeating the Spielberg’s love for cinema-, at the same time polished on a visual level -as it does not dispense with visual effects, to make its narrative more effective without interfering with the realism of its story-.
Now, Steven Spielberg is embarking on his next audiovisual project, with which he returns to science fiction, which for me is the most interesting genre he has developed, with which I am sure he will not disappoint us and which has many possibilities of becoming an eternal classic once again.
With luck, which audiences will return to in 40 years looking for references in Spielberg to make his films set in the 2020s – if that is the period chosen by the filmmaker for this film about which we still know so little – to an idealized cinematic new 20.
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