Word: spielbergisms
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...Americans are famous for our sentimental side. How else do you explain our weepy fascination with the Olympics, or with most of the films of Steven Spielberg? If that's not enough to convince you, don't forget this piece of incontrovertible evidence: We love greeting cards...
...1970s, Southern became "unfashionable" in the movie industry, due to several factors (changing regimes, the death of the "small" Hollywood film with the advent of Spielberg and Lucas, a reputation as one who "indulged" quite a bit). His position as a "name" journalist-in-residence on Rolling Stones tours had the same sad, resigned air as Ken Kesey's travels with the Grateful Dead. Given the nature of his later professional endeavors (including the script of an unfunny 1980 hardcore porn comedy, "Randy the Electric Lady"), the sweetest surprise waiting for Southern fans in "A Grand Guy" is the revelation...
...well, sixth sense for the hint of ecstasy or despair in a glance. Inhabiting such a character, letting humanity seep into him: that's not artifice. It's a fine actor's art, and enough to make any mother love him. Not to mention his two fathers, Spielberg and Kubrick...
...That's pure Spielberg: the story of a stranded or abandoned child searching for signposts to home, for the reunion of the nuclear family. This Hansel-and-Gretel motif has been playing from his first feature, The Sugarland Express (two young marrieds struggle to rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light...
...could be seen as a work of artificial emotions and genuine cinematic intelligence. It is more than that because Spielberg laid the burden of the film on Osment like a backpack, and the young trouper carries it. A meticulous actor, Osment made sure that "whenever [David] turns a corner, he turns it the same number of steps every time, the same movements. And the eyes were important. Turn the eyes first, then the head. Don't blink...