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Steven Spielberg's 5 best films ranked before Disclosure Day
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He's one of the most successful filmmakers of all time - and these are his finest.

He’s directed many stone-cold cinema classics – but these are Steven Spielberg ’s very best , who made such an impact in the space with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ; and may this prompt you on your own journey of wondrous rediscovery…As a filmmaker, Spielberg has never shied away from very serious subjects alongside his blockbusters under the trailer for Schindler’s List: ‘I remember my mother warning me against this movie.

“It’s not that it’s a bad film,” she said. “It’s a masterpiece but the problem is, you can’t unsee it. ”’, it tells the real-life story of industrialist Oskar Schindler, who ended up saving approximately 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War Two.

He’s no hero, having moved to Poland in a bid to make a fortune, but Schindler eventually finds he can no longer stand by in the face of the Nazis’ brutality. On my first attempt at watching it as a 12-year-old, I couldn’t get beyond the famous scene featuring the young girl in the red coat, it was so affecting.

And for anyone who thinks the biggest villain Fiennes ever played was Voldemort, you are clearly yet to see the reprehensible things his SS officer Amon Göth does. Schindler’s List picked up seven Academy Awards from its 12 nominations in 1994, including best picture and best director for Spielberg.

This was the unrivalled first entry in a blockbuster franchise This sci-fi adventure marked Spielberg’s first time collaborating with longtime writer David Koepp, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Crichton, based on his 1990 novel of the same name. Its tagline was ‘an adventure 65 million years in the making’, and this movie has since spawned six further feature films among other spin-offs as part of a mammoth franchise.

It’s remarkable how little the T-rex has aged, including its ability to scare audiences, many of whom have seen the way they look at ripples in a glass of water forever changed. The original Jurassic Park stars Richard Attenborough as a wealthy CEO who has funded a team of genetic scientists to create a wildlife park of full of de-extinct dinosaurs.and Jeff Goldblum play the scientific experts invited to certify its safety for the general public… what could possibly go wrong?

Everyone stayed out of the water after Jaws became a smash hit , bucking the trend in the 1970s of hoped-for hits being released in the winter instead, as well as introducing the now standard practice of a wide release in thousands of cinemas. When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping in Amity Island, police chief Brody wants to close the beaches but is overruled by the mayor and his focus on tourist revenue.

But after a second incident on the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Brody teams up with expert marine biologist Hooper and grizzled ship captain Quint to hunt and kill what is now thought to be a great white shark. Eventually making $495million on a production budget of just $9m , Jaws was truly a phenomenon.

From another Williams’ score that’s all but immortal to quotes including ‘you’re gonna need a bigger boat’, Jaws also fed society’s fear of sharks to a point that– they weren’t lying with the famous tagline for Jaws 2 three years later: ‘Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…’ Spielberg was also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock in his decision to mostly suggest the shark’s presence throughout the film, followingIf you want to feel something, watch E.T. Penned by screenwriter Melissa Mathison, this sci-fi fantasy follows 10-year-old Elliott , who befriends a peaceful alien who has been stranded on earth during a visit to our planet.

Sheltering him from the aggressive forces of US government agents searching for him, Elliott enlists the help of his friends and family to help E.T. find his way home.upon release , and was later nominated for nine Oscars, winning four. But aside from all the measurable elements of success, E.T. truly provides that magical feeling of childlike wonder whenever you watch it. It’s nostalgia at its purest and finest.

Indiana Jones is the true pinnacle of the action-adventure genre Perhaps it’s my particular interests in old films and old stuff, but the 1930s-set adventures of dashing archaeologist Indiana Jones always hugely appealed to me. Spanning the globe from Peru to Nepal to Egypt , Indy is sent to try and stop a rival archaeologist guiding Nazis to the Ark of the Covenant, the powers of which are thought to make an army invincible.

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