Word: spielbergisms
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...MARKETING CAMPAIGN Love the Spielberg movie or hate it, this stealth campaign for the robo-Pinocchio story was popcorn entertainment itself. A network of websites spun a complex murder mystery, never mentioning the movie's plot or its main characters, but hardwiring curious surfers into AI's fictional future world...
...rated PG and Steven Spielberg reportedly had to reloop some dialogue in post-production and add two uses of the word “shit” to prevent the dreaded G-rating. A G would have scared away the too-cool allowance-hoarders who made E.T. the all-time box office champion for 12 years...
...that Elliot’s mouth will be made to look like it’s not pronouncing the classic put-down “penis-breath.” Instead, the pixels will be maneuvered to show the young actor, Henry Thomas, mouthing some substitute juvenile barb that Spielberg, who is now a parent, thinks will stem another tide of potty-mouthin’ E.T. acolytes...
...beloved not for its marvelous vistas, but for its seediness and its character and its suggestion of colliding worlds and species. The bicycles-across-the-moon scene in E.T. has a magical simplicity. Now filmmakers have the power to cram anything they want into the frame. Imagine how Spielberg could have ruined that scene with today’s special effects (basketcam could have given you E.T.’s perspective, midflight...
...year that Oliver and Company was released, though, something new did emerge. And it didn’t come from Disney. The trio of Martin Luthers—Touchstone Pictures, Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis—marched up to the door of Hollywood and nailed to it two theses...