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He was the first filmmaker in the world to have grossed more than $10 billion at the cumulative box office.
He has many identity titles, investor, producer, producer, director, screenwriter; he invests in the production of films with unlimited themes, including thrillers, science fiction films, action films, war films, comedies, etc.; he grasps both commercial films and art films, and can also have a double harvest at the box office.
He is also the most powerful filmmaker in Hollywood, and has become popular with many young filmmakers.
He's Steven Spielberg.
He is working on a film based on his own upbringing, which will begin in July.
In life, he was deeply affected by the divorce of his parents, and his father's absence plagued him all his life; in his career, he applied for film school three times and was rejected, in order to study, he pretended to be a tourist and went to the studio city to steal a teacher from the master Hitchcock.
He challenges himself and pushes the limits again and again, constantly breaking his own records.
This issue follows the documentary Steven Spielberg for a sneak peek at his legendary experiences.
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Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
His father, Arnold, was an electrical engineer who worked as a radio communications officer in World War II. Influenced by their father's work, they moved frequently, and fathers were always busy with work, working overtime on weekends and rarely interacting with their children.
His mother, Leah Adler, was a pianist and painter.
Because of his Jewish identity, Spielberg was often ostracized by his peers in the community when he was a child, and they were so arrogant that they would run to Spielberg's door and shout: "Spielberg's family is dirty Jews."
This made Spielberg Jr. extremely resentful of his Jewish identity, and he was once reluctant to admit his Jewish origins:
"I don't want to accept them anymore because they will make me ostracized, I feel ashamed of myself, and now I feel ashamed to think about the time in my life when I no longer want to be Jewish." 」
Ostracized by his peers and snubbed by his father, Spielberg had a lonely childhood, watching TV and movies alone or sitting in the courtyard watching the clouds. Coupled with his poor academic performance, his father was very angry and disappointed with him.
But what caused the estrangement between father and son was the father's sudden departure from home.
When the family moved from Arizona to Northern California, Spielberg began to perceive that something was wrong between her father and mother, who had been very happy people, but she suddenly became sad and desperate.
One day Spielberg saw his mother sitting in the living room playing the piano and crying, and he walked over and sat down next to his mother, who said to him, "I'm lonely."
Spielberg's father hid in the kitchen and cried, for which Spielberg was very angry, he felt that his father did not look like a man, he shouted at him: "Crying ghost, you crying ghost!" ”
The father and mother divorced, the father left, leaving his wife and four children behind.
Spielberg believes that the responsibility lies with his father, and he hates his father for abandoning them, but this is not the case.
Years later the children learned that it was the mother Leah who had fallen in love with someone else, and that she had fallen in love with her husband's best friend, Bernie Adler, a man whom the children thought was very reliable, like an uncle.
Although he later learned the truth about his father's divorce, Spielberg's relationship with his father was once strained, and he said in the documentary that his father had wanted to connect with him, but he walked away:
"I was immersed in work, just like my dad was in Phoenix all those years, came home very late, and worked on weekends, and I became my father and I became a workaholic. Then I lost contact with him for 15 years (and later reconciled). ”
However, Spielberg is desperate to repair his relationship with his father, but he has transferred all his inner reflections to the big screen, and the film has become an outlet for him to vent his emotions.
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Although Spielberg believes that his father does not care about him, in fact, his father has always been the biggest supporter of Spielberg's film path, the first movie he watched was accompanied by his father, and the first small movie he made was also paid by his father to rent a movie theater.
Spielberg, who had no interest in learning, showed great interest in the camera, and at the age of 13, he picked up the 8mm camera at home and began shooting short films, very talented.
He said, "Growing up, I was lonely, the camera was like my pen, I used it to record my life, and when I was able to say start and stop, I controlled my life." ”
After graduating from high school, he applied to long beach film school three times, but was rejected because of poor grades. He later studied film at California State University, but Spielberg says Universal Studios is his school.
For a long time, he had been wandering around Universal Studios, he got on a sightseeing station wagon, pretended to be a tourist and followed him into the studio, waited for the car to stop in the bathroom, ran into the bathroom and hid inside, and then came out after the car left.
As long as he saw which studio to shoot, Spielberg tried to find a way to blend in and steal the teacher.
He sneaked into Hitchcock's crew until he was found evicted; he also found an unused office in Universal Studios, ran inside for three days and stayed for six months without being discovered.
In 1968, Spielberg won an award for his short film "Amperin" and received a 7-year contract from Universal Pictures, and at a young age, he became a TV director, which made many of his peers envious.
However, what really made him famous in Hollywood was the thriller movie Jaws.
It was also a film invested by Universal Pictures, a $9 million film that was released on June 20, 1975, and immediately detonated the film market, eventually earning $470 million at the box office.
However, the filming process is far more thrilling than the film.
The movie is about to start, the script has not yet been determined, and the props big shark are not ready. Because Spielberg insisted on shooting on the sea, it increased the difficulty and was much slower than shooting on land, resulting in filming delays and budget overruns.
Originally planned to be completed in 55 days, it took them 159 days to finish the film.
But it was all worth it, the filmmakers made a lot of money, and Spielberg also ushered in a big turning point in his career:
"That success changed my life, it gave me the right to decide, and from then on, I had the opportunity to choose the movie I wanted to make, and Jaws was the ticket to the future."
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In 1976, Spielberg made the science fiction film "Contact of the Third Kind", and from this film onwards, Spielberg often implanted his own expectations for a happy family in the film.
Then, in another science fiction film made in 1981, E.T. Aliens, Spielberg directly showed the misfortunes of his childhood in the film: How much impact does divorce have on children's childhoods, and how can children fill their lonely hearts?
Because home is the most important part of his life, a lot of his movies are about separation and reunion, "A lot of the movies I make have broken families, and then those families are reunited. ”
Here, it is important to mention Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" in 1993, why mention it earlier, because as early as 1982, Spielberg came into contact with the novel "Schindler's Ark":
"Sid Scheinberg asked me to read the book 'Schindler's Ark,' and he thought it was my destiny to make this film, and he insisted that I keep an eye on the film and not give it up."
The reason why it took so long to shoot is because Spielberg has always felt that the time has not yet come. Both Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski refused to make the film, and Polanski made another similar film, The Pianist.
As mentioned earlier, Spielberg hated his Jewish ancestry because he was ostracized by his peers when he was a child, and the filming of "Schindler's List" was his journey of "confessing his ancestors":
"The experience of shooting Schindler's List reconciled me with the grandiose-sounding reasons I used to hide my Jewish ancestry, and it made me proud to be a Jew."
During the filming, Spielberg, who was deeply touched, often returned to the hotel after the shooting and cried, saying that this was the most sad film he had ever made.
After the film was released, he created a foundation to help his fellow citizens.
The film won him two Oscars for best picture and best director, and proved that he can also shoot art films in addition to commercial films.
Spielberg also had a misstep, after filming "Contact of the Third Kind", he shot the comedy war film "Nineteen Forty-One", which was poor at the box office and word of mouth, completely hit Spielberg.
Many investors are afraid to work with him because his films have budget overruns and cycle delays.
Finally, his good friend George Lucas pulled him along.
George Lucas gave Spielberg the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the two took it to visit the major production companies, but they both refused, and they said to George Lucas, if you change directors, we can consider working together.
But George Lucas insisted on having Spielberg as director, and Spielberg assured George Lucas, "I'm not going to betray you, and if the budget is twenty million, we'll shoot it with twenty million." ”
Eventually Paramount took the plate.
The film sold well at the box office and saved Spielberg's career. Later, they made two more sequels.
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In 1988, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" was launched, and in the film, the male protagonist Indiana Jones's father Henry Jones also appeared, and the relationship between the father and son was a true portrayal of Spielberg and his father Arnold.
Arnold said in the documentary that for a long time, his son Steven hated him, he was hurt, but he didn't say anything, he still loved Steven's mother, so he didn't want the children to know about his mother's cheating.
Arnold chose to be misunderstood by the children and to digest all the pain himself.
In his later years, Spielberg's parents reconciled, and Spielberg reconciled with his father Arnold, perhaps because he had become a father, and Spielberg's relationship with his father was closer than before.
In June 1997, Spielberg began filming the war film "Saving Private Ryan", saying that when he was a child, his father often told him the story of World War II, and his father's military friends would come to the house as guests.
So he wanted to make such a war film for his father, which made Arnold feel very warm.
"This film is a tribute to a veteran, and I think it's also a tribute to my father, who flew missions in World War II, in India and Burma."
There are so many works about Spielberg that I will not introduce them all here, and finally talk about his two marriages. Spielberg was married twice, first to actress Amy Owen.
In 1985, after Amy gave birth to her son Max, Spielberg and Amy married.
After his parents divorced, Spielberg once thought that if he married, he would definitely not divorce, but after four years of marriage with Amy, the two still parted ways and ended up divorcing.
At the time of the divorce, Spielberg paid Amy a hundred million dollars.
Spielberg's second wife, also an actress named Kate Capshaw, fell in love with her at first sight:
"When I first met Kate, the plot in the movie was happening to me, it was cliché, but the bell rang, it was love at first sight, really, something made Kate feel confident and it made me feel at ease, it was a kind of synchronization, we could talk about anything, she lingered in my head."
Kate loved U and U, and she volunteered to join Judaism and studied the doctrines in depth, influencing Spielberg's attitude toward her Jewish identity. He began to learn about his teachings and decided to shoot Schindler's List.
During the filming of Schindler's List, Kate was always with Spielberg.
Now they have a big family and 7 children, the eldest daughter Jessica Capshaw is the child of Kate and her ex-husband, friends who like to watch American dramas know, Jessica starred in the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy", in which she played the pediatrician.
The son Max was born to Spielberg's ex-wife, Amy, and Spielberg had three children with Kate, and they also adopted two.
Because of his parents' divorce, Spielberg was confused for a long time.
But luckily, he healed his childhood, and he said he was lucky that he could filter those feelings in an artistic way, he didn't need to see a psychiatrist, the movie was his psychiatrist.
He also experienced a failed marriage, but it was because of this that he found his soul mate Kate, who supported each other, became the strength of each other, grew up together, and grew old together.
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