Word: spielbergism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something must be wrong with the latest Steven Spielberg movie. There are no cute cuddly creatures in it. There are no frightening little devils in it. In fact, Spielberg seems to have pulled every idea from the several thousand other time machine movies ever made. So how can Back to the Future be any good? More importantly, how can it make money...
Scorsese, who has known Spielberg since 1971, detects "a pressure in Steven to top himself. The audience sees his name on a project and expects more and bigger. That's a tough position to be in." And Spielberg, who boasts that "I can dump on me better than anybody else," confesses that "I find my leg stuck in the trap I built. To have directed a movie like Young Sherlock Holmes would have gnawed that leg right...
...know-nothing adults and feel-it- all children are not the only tales worth spinning; that adults must face such plot twists as pain, exultation and emotional compromise; that there is drama to be found in the grown-up compulsions of power and, dare we say it, sex. Sure, Spielberg knows there is life after high school. "But after E.T.," he says, "people expected a certain kind of film from me, a certain amount of screams and cheers and laughs and thrills. And I was caving in to that. I knew I could give it to them, but I realize...
Enter The Color Purple, an epistolary novel about incest, sexual brutality, sapphic love and the indomitable will to survive. It did not seem the sort of material Steven Spielberg would touch with a ten-foot wand. Which is precisely why he went for it. "The Color Purple is the biggest challenge of my career," he proclaims. "When I read it I loved it; I cried and cried at the end. But I didn't think I would ever develop it as a project. Finally I said, I've got to do this for me. I want to make something that...
...past is no foreign country to Steven Spielberg. He lives there in his memory, in his fertile imagination and, triumphantly, in his films. "Everything that I do in my movies," he says, "is a product of my homelife in suburban U.S.A. I can always trace a movie idea back to my childhood." And each summer he invites moviegoers around the world to join him in that holy, haunted place. Here, as recounted to TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell, is the director's own montage of his first 16 years...