Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumph of Gandhi was so sweeping that many people in the industry viewed it as a deliberate rebuke of E.T. and Steven Spielberg, its creator, producer and director. Though he is only 35, Spielberg has directed four of the ten biggest money makers in Hollywood history, including, besides E.T, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Yet neither he nor any of his pictures has ever won a major award...
Even Tootsie 's director, Sydney Pollack, who was competing against Spielberg, voiced misgivings about this year's snub. "The entire world has endorsed everything Steven has ever done, and the academy ignored it," he said. "Probably Steven's hair must get whiter before he can win." In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Spielberg openly expressed his disappointment: "I've been around long enough to know that peopie who deserve Oscars don't always win them. The tendency is for important films to win over popcorn entertainment. History is more weighty than popcorn...
King throws brand names around as liberally as if he were collecting commissions from companies. But in fact his incessant litany of commercials stems from the same impulse that dares Stephen Spielberg to fill his movies with Reese's Pieces and beer jingles. The device embeds the book or the movie firmly into the consciousness of its audience; the labels make everything familiar, and we placidly swallow it as the real thing...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH was a very happy man Monday night. His movie Gandhi, a celebration of the life of the Indian leader for indepedence. Mahatma Gandhi, swept eight major Academy Awards, leaving Steven Spielberg, director of E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, and Sydney Pollack, the director of Tootsie, a little flat-footed and gaping. They weren't the only ones; plenty of T.V.-watchers were bewildered as well after three hours of watching their favorites bypassed time after time...
...right. Although The Outsiders is a refreshing departure from the pretentiousness of Apocalypse Now and One From The Heart, the director could still stand to trim his tendency towards the grandiose. In a movie about youth. Coppola seems to have been tempted to the epic limitlessness of Steven Spielberg's E.T. Carmino Coppola's sappy score and the overly brilliant shots by cinematographer Stephen H. Burum also work against a sense of immediacy and relevance...