Maybe it sounds very abuelete but I remember that until not too long ago, the premiere of a film by Steven Spielberg was quite an event. We talk about the director of ‘Jaws’, ‘E. T.’, the saga Indiana Jones… Now introduces the ‘The files of the Pentagon’ (‘The Post’) with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks for the first time together on the big screen, and I don’t see the excitement or enthusiasm that I used to generate.
I Think it was from ‘War Horse’ (2011) and ‘Lincoln’ (2012) when I began to notice more clearly that your job was not appreciating it as much as before. Perhaps it is inevitable, you have 71. And it’s not like he has been a filmmaker deified since its inception, as other. It was thought that “only” did a good cinema entertainment, box office hits, (he was the King Midas of Hollywood), as if it was easy! Until I “got serious” with ‘Schindler’s list’ (‘Schindler’s List’, 1993).
His portrait of the jewish holocaust won 7 Oscars, including best film and direction. To day of today is still regarded as one of his best works, a masterpiece in all aspects. However, interestingly, the protagonist in the film, was not happy with his work. In the same interview where you left off in his controversial statements on the current wave of allegations of sexual harassment, Liam Neeson praises ‘Schindler’s list’ but confesses his displeasure with the direction of Spielberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7fQUSyQqeU
