Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...36th International Film Festival-the world's largest and most glamorous meeting of movie professionals-from developing a giant, 13-day hangover. Last year Cannes sailed through sunny weather and provocative films to a memorable festival, capped by a rapturous reception for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's E.T. At this year's meeting, some 35,000 of the faithful staggered through chills and intermittent rain, through failures of organization and not a few fiascoes onscreen...
...Empire Strikes Back, which suffered from a hectic, muddled pace, together with the classic problems of being the second act in a three-act play. "I think Jedi is the best Star Wars movie ever made, and it is definitely going to be the most successful," says Director Steven Spielberg, who as one of Lucas' closest friends is admittedly biased. "The first movie was the introduction; Empire was the second-act conflict. But they were mere canapes for this third-act opus. This is the definitive Star Wars...
Ford, 40, is the only one to break out of his Star Wars mold, and that is only because he won the role of Indiana Jones in another Lucas-inspired film, Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Star Wars gave him visibility, but Raiders made him a box-office draw. "People want fairy tales in their lives, and I'm lucky enough to provide them," Ford says with a touch of cynicism. "There is no difference between doing this kind of film and playing King Lear. The actor's job is exactly the same: dress up and pretend." Nonetheless...
...shares with his friend Steven Spielberg (E.T.) the title "Mr. Blockbuster." Besides Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which rank No. 2 and No. 3 in receipts, he drew up the plot of and produced No. 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition, an earlier film, American Graffiti (1973), loosely modeled on his own adolescence in Modesto, Calif., ranks as one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. It cost Universal Pictures only $780,000 to produce, but it has already returned $145 million worldwide...
That, even more than any backlash against Spielberg, seemed to be the reason for Gandhi's success: all appearances to the contrary, the 3,953 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences like to think of themselves as responsible citizens. Given the choice between a serious movie and one that is merely entertaining, they will almost always choose the former. Examples in the past: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest over Jaws (1975) and Gentleman's Agreement over Miracle on 34th Street...