What do Jaws, Jurassic Park and E.T all have in common? They were all directed by someone who arguably deserves the title, ‘living legend’. The first person to direct a movie that had a revenue of over $100 million, the same person who invented the modern blockbuster with the iconic movie ‘Jaws’. Steven Spielberg is the living legend in question.
December 18th, 1946. This fateful day was the fateful day that Steven Allen Spielberg began to grace us all with his presence. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, He is the son of Leah Adler Posner and Arnold and the older brother to three sisters. We began seeing glimpses of his future greatness after his prize-winning film ‘Escape to Nowhere’, which he directed at the tender age of 13. It was at Arcadia …show more content…
The story takes place in the small island community of Amity, which fell victim to the wrath of an enormous great white shark. Fed up with the shark’s reign of terror, a police officer, marine scientist and fisherman board the Orca boat in attempt to stop the shark. Released in 1975, Jaws was the first movie to have a box office revenue of over $100 million, and a total box office revenue of $471 million. $3,5 million was the original budget for the entire movie, a total $9 million was spent on the movie. Shooting, production and editing of the movie was only supposed to take 55 days, but that deadline was later pushed to a substantial 159 …show more content…
Spielberg. The story of Jurassic Park takes place in a theme park, and the general theme is the Jurassic time period. The theme park suffered a power outage, which allowed it’s clone dinosaurs to run amok, I can’t imagine how much of a nightmare that would’ve been for the organisers of the park. The rights to make a movie remake of the book were bought before the official release of the book. Mr. Spielberg discovered the book while working on his TV series, ‘ER’, and was more than pleased with the idea of a movie remake. Jurassic Park had a cast that even the casting director of the Expendables series would be envious of. The cast featured William Hurt, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Samuel L. Jackson to name a few. Nobody expected the shooting of the movie to be a walk in the park, but I doubt that anybody was expecting the most powerful hurricane in Hawaii’s history to destroy the set on the final day of shooting. The T-Rex’s roar in the movie was a composite of a tiger, an alligator and a baby elephant. I think it is safe to say that this blockbuster redefined the film genre of Science
December 18th, 1946. This fateful day was the fateful day that Steven Allen Spielberg began to grace us all with his presence. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, He is the son of Leah Adler Posner and Arnold and the older brother to three sisters. We began seeing glimpses of his future greatness after his prize-winning film ‘Escape to Nowhere’, which he directed at the tender age of 13. It was at Arcadia …show more content…
The story takes place in the small island community of Amity, which fell victim to the wrath of an enormous great white shark. Fed up with the shark’s reign of terror, a police officer, marine scientist and fisherman board the Orca boat in attempt to stop the shark. Released in 1975, Jaws was the first movie to have a box office revenue of over $100 million, and a total box office revenue of $471 million. $3,5 million was the original budget for the entire movie, a total $9 million was spent on the movie. Shooting, production and editing of the movie was only supposed to take 55 days, but that deadline was later pushed to a substantial 159 …show more content…
Spielberg. The story of Jurassic Park takes place in a theme park, and the general theme is the Jurassic time period. The theme park suffered a power outage, which allowed it’s clone dinosaurs to run amok, I can’t imagine how much of a nightmare that would’ve been for the organisers of the park. The rights to make a movie remake of the book were bought before the official release of the book. Mr. Spielberg discovered the book while working on his TV series, ‘ER’, and was more than pleased with the idea of a movie remake. Jurassic Park had a cast that even the casting director of the Expendables series would be envious of. The cast featured William Hurt, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Samuel L. Jackson to name a few. Nobody expected the shooting of the movie to be a walk in the park, but I doubt that anybody was expecting the most powerful hurricane in Hawaii’s history to destroy the set on the final day of shooting. The T-Rex’s roar in the movie was a composite of a tiger, an alligator and a baby elephant. I think it is safe to say that this blockbuster redefined the film genre of Science