He is regarded as an auteur since he has a unique technique and style in his contribution in the artistic works. Also, the reason of being considered an auteur revolves around the unique marks left on the films he has directed. Steven has been successful over the years, and therefore, his name has spread and become a brand in the film industry and history (Lewis, 2003). He is compared to Walt Disney for the impact he has had on the industry. Steven Spielberg is considered an auteur also because of the credit is shown to his support team as well. Hence, his personal techniques and styles have geared the films he has directed into life. An example of such an individual technique and style occurs when he zooms in a character’s face is either surprised or amazed without the audience knowing what the amazement or surprise is all about. Hence, he has shown the effectiveness of the technique, and it has worked for different films later. Another technique to illustrate his auteurism through John William's music for all the films he directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial filmed in 1982 having more drama and winning an Oscar award because of his excellent skills (Kotzwinkle, Mathison & Morrissey, 2002). Also, he uses an auteur technique by using camera tilting skills to show critical moments and dominance feeling in some scenario.
How Steven Spielberg has impacted film history.
Steven Spielberg has impacted on the film history in becoming a blockbuster moving beyond box office films. The major impact on the film history is the themes he creates on the stories based on people’s connections and how the human relationships have impacted on the present-day films. Compared to other filmmakers, Steven Spielberg has shown a lot of people-interactions, sometimes warfare and often love. At the start of his film career, Spielberg displayed dramatic effects and actions. For instance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind filmed in 1977 and Jaws filmed in 1975 drew a way for other films that faced budgets overrun (Mara, 2014). Jurassic Park in 1993 and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial filmed in 1982 that Spielberg directed took the film industry into higher levels that even outsold the film’s inspirations, establishing an identity sense for the films and their institution. Cult classics were there previously, but the rise of Spielberg uplifted all the blockbusters leading to high sales of the movie images through the process of cross-marketing.
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Nonetheless, his impact in the film history has shown devotion to war and family issues. His influence is on the subjects of the World War II in the development of stories which led to the historical wars' insights. Schindler's List in 1993 was more of a blockbuster movie showing victims who were heroes of the Holocaust and the navigation of a hostile environment in doing the right thing (Classen, 2009). The theme is continued from the earlier film Spielberg has directed to another film, Empire of the Sun in 1987 containing the aspects of war and imprisonment.
In conclusion, Steven Spielberg’s works have exposed him as a director who is significantly perceived as a contributor to the spectacles and the causes he possesses. He has enabled the film industry to recognize his legacy in ensuring that the characters in the films have been maintained regarding their roles in filmmaking and its entirety. He has displayed all the aspects of an auteur and the impacts the auteurs make in the film industry creating a different history that will be used as a reference by other future auteurs.
References
Classen, C. (2009). BALANCED TRUTH: STEVEN SPIELBERG'S SCHINDLER'S LIST AMONG HISTORY, MEMORY, AND POPULAR CULTURE 1. History and Theory, 48(2), 77-102.
Kotzwinkle, W., Mathison, M., & Morrissey, P. (2002). ET: The Extra-Terrestrial. Pearson education.
Lewis, J. (2003). The perfect money machine (s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and auteurism in the new Hollywood. Film International, 1(1), 12-26.
Mara, W. (2014). Steven Spielberg. Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg
