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AUGUST 28, 2020
Why Spielberg’s Father Mattered—Not Just to Him, but to Us
Steven Spielberg’s father, Arnold, passed away early this week at the age of 103. His love for science fiction and the natural world—as well as the pain that his split from the filmmaker’s mother caused—helped inspire classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. V.F.’s Anthony Breznican has interviewed Spielberg many times over the years. Today in HWD, he pays tribute to the father’s legacy by drawing on conversations with the son. “From very early on in my career everybody said that I didn’t ever make personal movies, that I only made these big concept films,” Spielberg once said. “I always felt all of my films were personal because I’ve never made a film where some part of the story didn’t come from some experience I shared with my family.” Breznican agrees that the theme of fatherhood extended long after the early movies: “It’s there in the bond between Indiana Jones and Short Round in The Temple of Doom, and in Harrison Ford and Sean Connery’s combative chemistry in The Last Crusade. It came up again in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull between Ford and Shia LaBeouf, playing the son the archaeologist never knew. It’s in the scientists who find themselves surrogate parents of frightened young visitors in Jurassic Park, and the little robot boy seeking a family in A.I. Artificial Intelligence.” V.F.remembers the father of a great man.
Elsewhere in HWD, Julie Miller dives deep into the true story behind your next TV obsession, Showtime’s new docuseries Love Fraud; the makers of Bill & Ted Face the Music answer our burning questions; the director of Clemency announces a movie about the murder of Emmett Till; Stephen Colbert riffs on Donald Trump’s teleprompter problems; Katey Richreviews The Personal History of David Copperfield; and more.
Elsewhere in HWD, Julie Miller dives deep into the true story behind your next TV obsession, Showtime’s new docuseries Love Fraud; the makers of Bill & Ted Face the Music answer our burning questions; the director of Clemency announces a movie about the murder of Emmett Till; Stephen Colbert riffs on Donald Trump’s teleprompter problems; Katey Richreviews The Personal History of David Copperfield; and more.
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