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Gibson on Spielberg

I don't know if any of you picked up last months 20th Anniversary of Empire Magazine edited by Steven Spielberg. There was a section with pictures of actors in there best loved roles e.g. Jodie Foster on a chair & Sir Anthony Hopkins behind glass. It was a great article. Well there one shot of Mel Gibson (pictured left looking slightly like a combination of George Lucas & Francis Ford Coppola) wearing a normal suit with half of face painted blue. Obviously from Braveheart...well as he was interviewed he talked about his early memories of Spielberg's work, his first being Duel and him being extremely impressed with it. He then talked about Empire of the Sun and his admiration of this amazing film. He added that he never understood how it never received the respect it should have. And he's totally right I watched Empire of the Sun the other night.That film is amazing, friends believe me. As the young Christian Bale played in the defunkt bomber I imagined Spielberg loving that scene, 'cause he loves that era and those planes. Watch Empire of the Sun folks - you will enjoy it and Christian Bale is brilliant in it opposite some big names, John Malkovich (also flippin' brilliant) to name but one. Also quite unexpectatedly a young Ben Stiller makes a couple of brief appearances.

Back to our man Mel....I wonder if Spielberg was annoyed with Gibson for making The Passion of the Christ. Obviously Spielberg is a Jew and Gibson a Catholic. Gibson came under some attack from the Jewish community for making that movie. Does anybody know if Steven and Mel are buddies? I know some people have produced letters allegedly written by Spielberg to Gibson, but quite frankly I don't believe it. I think it would be awesome to see these guys work together.

The MAN can make mistakes too!!!!

Not that I watched Duel to pick out the mistakes Spielberg makes during a shoot (which are very few by the way), but I did watch the making of Duel before I watched the film the other night and Spielberg points out where he was sitting in the back seat of the car in one shot (depending on your aspect ratio mind you). This was a relief as a few weeks back while making a short film we noticed the boom in shot in the final edit (again depending on your aspect ratio). i also noticed during Duel while Dennis Weaver sits in the cafe the camera creeps round towards him and there is a mega shadow cast from the camera in the seat in front of Weaver. These things being noted.....what a first movie....even if it was for TV. It was brilliant, the tension was incredible, the acting was outstanding and what's more the directing was phenomenal. I loved it. And like at the end of Jaws I was so relieved that the truck took the plunge. It has to be noted that this film took 13 DAYS to film. Outstanding Mr Spielberg....next Sugarland Express!!!!!

This weekend at some point I'm going to watch Duel and get back to you with a review.

Thank you very much for making movies!

My first post has to be a massive thanks to Mr Steven Spielberg for deciding all those years ago that he was going to start making movies.

I was very young when I saw Jaws and couldn't bring myself to watch it (or go too deep in the water) for many years. When I watched it as an adult I was on the edge of my seat most of the movie and still am when I watch it now many years on. For this reason Jaws is my favourite movie.

ET was most likely my next Spielberg film to enjoy...tears of joy and sadness and exhilaration came....and still do...I kid you not.

Like a lot of kids my age, my first experience of Indiana Jones was Temple of Doom and NOT Raiders! I went with my family and my mum would not stop shrieking and laughing...to tell you the truth it was like sitting with Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw's character)...however it actually made the experience so much better having someone react the way an audience is meant to react but are maybe sometimes too embarrassed to.

Anyway, these early experiences in watching Spielberg's films have made life just that little bit more enjoyable, exciting and downright memorable and I want to thank Steven Spielberg for all his work in Film Making.