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Spielberg isn't trying anymore


His 2010s list of films looks like he walks into his office and asks "has this thing been done to death yet?" and most of the time the answer should have been "yes"

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Alright, so your opinion differs from normal people. So what? You still might be loved!

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True. Spielberg only filmed 11 minutes of live action footage for this. Computer programmers did the rest as in literally the entire movie.

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Exactly, and hell, what does a director even do?

The cinematographers shoot all the footage, the sound guys do the sound, the editors put the movie together, the actors perform it, the lighting people do the lighting... They literally did everything, as in literally the entire movie.

What's the director even DOING? Why is he even there?

=l

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The so called director of RPO collected a paycheck and said "Adequate job everybody, keep up the satisfactory work."

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Directors tell all of the above how to do what they're doing.

There's any number of ways a single scene can be edited, and the director gives instruction as to how this will be carried out. Actors follow direction - if you read a film script, you might imagine the actors performing it in a different way to how it ends up. The director will tell the actors how to deliver the lines, what moods to convey, etc. Lighting people follow direction too - it might be moodlit, or floodlit, the director will decide, and the lighting operatives will set the lights up to match the scene the director wants to make.

In scifi and fantasy films, the director will also approve the various creature designs. The Orcs in Lord of the Rings could have looked like nearly anything, but Peter Jackson gave the designers intructions, and gave his thumbs up to the exact design they came up.

This is why films by certain directions (Del Toro, Tim Burton) have a certain "look", where if you saw a few minutes of one of their films without knowing who it's by, you could probably guess.

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id say only the post was a let down , Lincoln , bridge of spies and BFG were all pretty good and ready player one was fantastic

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Spielberg isn't trying anymore?

next indiana jones will be a woman

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Diana Jones?

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Diana-ana.

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I prefer Diarrhea Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YUwNlb-tY

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