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In reply to the discussion: What Spielberg’s “Lincoln” conveniently leaves out [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)85. Agreed
At the level of technique, Saving Private Ryan changed the way war movies will be made forever. Maybe another movie will come around and change it even more, but SPR - as silly as it is as an ideological production - was technically skillful in ways your interlocutor fails to acknowledge at his argumentative peril. Saying it was easy to make is just silly, relative or otherwise.
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well, he only spent the first 20 minutes re-creating the landing at Omaha Beach
WolverineDG
Nov 2012
#28
How do you KNOW he didn't build a time machine and influence the actual events of the landing...
Ian David
Nov 2012
#78
"D-Day vets said it was ... like being there". And we know this how? Astroturfing.
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#24
Not "astroturfing" at all. A simple Google search will bring up a number of....
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#61
Actually, a respected combat vet and paratrooper, and who was familiar with movie making,
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#86
You mention that you wish that you were on Spielberg's payroll. I'm sure that you do.
AnotherMcIntosh
Nov 2012
#77
Just curious, but which characters in "Saving Private Ryan" did you feel were undeveloped? nt.
OldDem2012
Nov 2012
#18
me too. i haven't seen all his films, but the ones i have seen made me not want to see the others.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#64
My daughters are finally old enough that we watched Pulp Fiction together a couple days ago.
randome
Nov 2012
#71
I don't like taratino either (nothing personal, i just don't). It's been a while, actually,
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#103
I totally disagree. He is a GREAT film maker. Everthing from "Jaws" to "Close Encounters" to the
RBInMaine
Nov 2012
#70
Uh, Spielberg is awesome. As a director, he has created some of the most iconic films in history
zonkers
Nov 2012
#87
It is not about being successful but how you become successful. We have used the idea of
jwirr
Nov 2012
#13
I was thinking about the use of this method by Rome/England in the expansion of their Empires.
jwirr
Nov 2012
#58
Put the use of manifest destiny methodology is not new - it has been the practice of most empires.
jwirr
Nov 2012
#59
I will. I don't agree with the article. I just thought it would be interesting discussion. nt
mfcorey1
Nov 2012
#90
And Native Americans can testify to your last statement. They died in droves so that the barons
jwirr
Nov 2012
#10
Here's a good article on the choices made by the filmmakers on what to include
Beaverhausen
Nov 2012
#19
Mhm. Every human has flaws. When they have as much power as a President, they're only amplified. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Nov 2012
#47
He was the only candidate that ran on limiting slavery to slave states.
Starry Messenger
Nov 2012
#30
the OP article in Salon shows everything that is wrong with those who are never satisfied
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#31
Yup. I do think myself that Spielberg wanted that to be the main thing people got out of the movie
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#44
Speilberg is, himself, a plutocrat. You can't expect him to make a class-based critique. Period.
leveymg
Nov 2012
#33
I am also a fan of a lot of Spielberg's movies, even if I disagree with some of his politics.
leveymg
Nov 2012
#45
Until we change our form of governance, the best that America can hope for is
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#35
What can't all movies about American heroes instead focus on how awful they are?
4th law of robotics
Nov 2012
#42
Why can't the world be pure black and white, good vs evil, like an old-fashioned comic book?
leveymg
Nov 2012
#48
I still haven't been able to see it. I'm hoping to get to go this Thursday.
liberal_at_heart
Nov 2012
#51
"a service to the country and to humanity in general." True, but England beat us to it by 32 years
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#96
Lincoln spoke publically in support of slavery as late as 1861. Spielberg has whitewashed history.
Romulox
Nov 2012
#98
it's actually an important fact in considering who his backers were & the reasons for the
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#104