Many of my generation knew Spielberg for NA Rarely did the name of a director then transcend beyond the most inveterate moviegoers. Even directors like Kubrick were buried behind their works, relegated to the credits as simple filmmakers who, through ignorance, resembled orchestra conductors with their baton.
But Spielberg was something else. The role of the director became popular thanks to a guy who knew how to present the perfect film that would bring together children and adults around the adventures of the friendly alien in the hands of willing children. It would be something that before, leisure was shared more between children and adults and Spielberg hit the key ...
Opportunity or success and undoubted creative genius. The point is that that Spielberg harbored in a handful of films prior to ET had all the necessary means to channel those perfect scripts that made fans and producers alike fall in love. Ordago lockers for those days with the fantasy genre, adventure and suspense as essential foundations and with special effects made in the USA as infallible tools.
That was a line Spielberg never abandoned. But it is true that every restless creator tries out new genres and, with a little business vision, one can consider going on to produce the films that he previously directed. Thus today Spielberg is a factotum of world cinema.
Top 3 Recommended Movies by Steven Spielberg
Schindler's List
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Surprise! I don't put ET in my selection because it certainly wouldn't bring anything new to a movie seen by everyone. Instead, I stop, and first of all, on a work that managed to surprise everyone in its dramatic, extremely human aspect. Surely in one of those television programs about answering questions between a, b, c and d, Spielberg would be the last director to be identified as a possible director of this film.
And it never hurts to break molds to start with a film that establishes that disruption that puts more value on the skills of the creator of the moment. Little more can be said about this film, Oscar in 1993 for all of it as a masterpiece.
A decision for black and white that serves the cause of that quick association with what was seen about the world during Nazism. Harmonies between characters that awaken empathy in the face of horror and madness. Decisions capable of leading the protagonist, set in the true story of Oscar Schindler, to the summary intervention of the dark Nazi final solution. Liam Neeson embroiders his performance with that dramatic charge that his figure always brings. Details like the girl in the red jacket who could be anyone, but she seems very much ours. A final catharsis that awakens the necessary feeling of hope.
Minority Report
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:One of the best science fiction movies you can find. Precogs, victims of genetic experimentation, live almost completely submerged in an essential serum that places them on a plane of general consciousness, as touched, or rather sprinkled in this case, by the gift of the prophetic.
Charging with their peculiar Cassandra syndrome, the three brothers offer from their pool visions of upcoming events in their most sinister aspect. What is the same, they are able to predict a crime before it occurs.
And of course, honey on flakes for a police of the future that, through a pre-crime unit, is capable of arresting criminals. If the matter contains a dose of treachery, then it is easier for the detectives of the unit, led by an always efficient Tom Cruise (let's call him John Anderton). If it is a crime of passion, everything precipitates more imminently because since there is no plan, there is no prior time to think about taking someone away.
Until the little brothers point to Anderton himself as a criminal in the making and the subsequent investigation is launched to stop him at all costs. But the matter has its crumb, of course. The visions of the precogs have their echoes, a kind of deviation from events to unfold. John Anderton finds his last hope in them because he has no motive to kill. Or so he thinks ...
Encounters in the third phase
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Taking advantage of ET's slipstream, Spielberg knew how to launch himself into new stories about the aliens that may one day visit us. And the truth is that this new installment about interplanetary neighbors that are fixed on Earth managed to maintain interest despite the insistence of the matter.
Richard Dreyfuss was one of Spielberg's great successes. Because without being a charismatic actor, he fit perfectly into the role of a bewildered electrician who finds himself abducted by aliens. Because that suggested that any day it could happen to us. And it was in the late seventies and early eighties when believing in UFOs was more than just a form of entertainment.
A strangely shaped mountain like Devil's Tower, in Wyoming, becomes an unexpected pilgrimage point. Some chosen ones receive the encrypted message that they must be there for the encounter of their lives with the aliens. It is always difficult to imagine aliens and Spielberg thought of music or rather notes as a means of communication.
A surprising movie at the time that we all evoke with affection and that, with the current technological abyss for effects and others, can always be reviewed with family, friends and children with cosmic concerns ...