Steven Spielberg Style
Subject Matter/Genre
Steven Spielberg is probably one of the most well known film directors in the world. He has made so many movies, everybody has probably seen at least one. Although he used to be more into sci-fi movie directing, he seems to be more into action, and historic themed movies now. He has also done quite a few adventure-typed movies. Spielberg has directed all sorts of genres, if not every one. These include action and thriller, along with adventure and sci-fi. All of this combined leads me to believe that he has an extremely large sense of a creativity-based style. He puts out quality work with camera work that nobody has seen before, along with his signature film angles. His extensive movie selection based on genre shows creativity too, because it shows that he is talented in more than just one field of the film director spectrum. I also believe the fact that everybody knows him shows something too. If you weren't creative and engineered new ideas, why would anybody care about the movie that you're making? it would be the same old thing that everybody is already used to, and if it's not original and ground breaking, nobody seems to care anymore. They want the latest and greatest, and Spielberg has never failed to deliver.
Cinematography
Spielberg, having made so many movies, has an amazing knowledge of what shots should go where. There are a lot of close-ups and eye-level shots specifically in Schindler's List, because it adds to the feeling of being there and feeling what it was like to be in the Holocaust. Overall, he has a wide variety of every shot, with a lot of eye-level, high and low, close-ups, and medium shots. He used tilts and pans primarily in Schindler's List, but the camera movement isn't very relevant if you're talking about Schindler's List, because an estimated 40% of the movie was filmed with a hand-held camera. I think he did this because he wanted to add realism to it. You don't see life in a completely straight manner, you're going to see shakes and imperfections, and this adds to those imperfections. This film was also filmed in black and white, because Spielberg felt that the movie should reflect on life in the early to mid 1940's. Spielberg creates color and black and white movies, relating to the time period the movie is supposed to reflect.
Schindler's List is an amazing example of a classic Spielberg movie. He made it so disturbing and emotional, all by the effects and dialogue that he used. The fact that most people call it a movie to only watch once says something. Not that it's bad, but that it stays with you forever. Never again will you need to watch it, because it will never leave because you witnessed something that you've never thought was as bad as he shows. Spielberg uses a creative perspective in Schindler's List, fictionalizing much more than Keneally did in his novel, but the fictionalization seems real, and it's realistic. The movie teaches you what everybody had to do, and did so in a way that will change your world.
Schindler's List is an amazing example of a classic Spielberg movie. He made it so disturbing and emotional, all by the effects and dialogue that he used. The fact that most people call it a movie to only watch once says something. Not that it's bad, but that it stays with you forever. Never again will you need to watch it, because it will never leave because you witnessed something that you've never thought was as bad as he shows. Spielberg uses a creative perspective in Schindler's List, fictionalizing much more than Keneally did in his novel, but the fictionalization seems real, and it's realistic. The movie teaches you what everybody had to do, and did so in a way that will change your world.
Mise-en-scène
Probably one of the most obvious and most important instances of mise-en-scène is what most people would call "the little girl in the red coat". This film was completely filmed in black and white, except for four instances. The little girl are those instances. Spielberg filmed in black and white to reflect on how films were like in those times, and did so quite well. The first instance, the girl was roaming the streets in a well lit city during the day, through crowds of people. The lighting was high. There was nothing to hide, and it was more of a wide shot scene. The costume of the girl was most importantly a red coat. The rest of the people were wearing suits, and other clothes tied into the mid 1940's. She is wandering near the Cracow ghetto, and in the midst of black and white people, the red flashes out to you, drawing your attention to her. She isn't too important at this part of the movie, but when you see people wheeling wheelbarrows over to incinerate dead Jews, she is in one of them. This is showing that all hope and innocence is lost for the war, and is seemingly one of the major themes in the movie.