Be aware. You can only post positive comments for this video. Yeah, I agree this video is not supposed to be positive: as if master of manipulation didn't give that away. They are just reaction shots and every movie has them. If they characters had no expressions on their faces, they wouldn't be believable characters.
I`m confused. I`m seeing all these comments from Spielberg fanboys who consider this video as being POSITIVE. When I saw it, I got the overhwelming sense of a tongue-in-cheek, half-sarcastic, ridicule piece, like something Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn would do for MTV. My friends got the same impression I did when they watched this. I have no idea whether the video creator intended this, but the tone of this video is not in solemn admiration but in a hilarious ``roast` style!
Because of this video, so called "professional critics" will now have legitimate reasons to falsly criticize Spielberg's films, instead of misunderstandings and unpopular opinions. Personally, Mr Spielberg will always be my favorite director and my idol.
@DRJames58 Anthony Hopkins did not win for Amistad. Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams won the two male acting Oscars for that year. Spielberg has never been able to direct anyone to an Oscar. Suck it up.
@webeffect If the statement had said "no actor had ever won an Oscar for their portrayal in a Spielberg film" you would be correct. As the statement stands, it's still WRONG!
@DRJames58 Why on earth would I have to make that statement? It's obvious, dumbass! What involvement would Spielberg have in an acting performance which he didn't direct?! DUH! LMAO!
Great war-time book if you're interested. It's called "The Great Waltz" by Olivia Grosser and it's about three youths who take on Hitler and Stalin - and win! I was thoroughly engrossed in it from beginning to end. It was set during the WWII Siege of Leningrad and the imagery was so vivid. It would be great if Spielberg made a movie based on this book.
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@vladimirhorowitz Partially. The story and characters were so bad in T3 that I didn't care at all for what was going on. Sure, there were some cool shots, but they were watered down by the over use of them and the characters lack of humanity. It doesn't matter how flashy the coffin is, it's still dead.
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Finally, somebody gets A.I. Am I the only one who loved that movie? Sure, the aliens were a bit much, but the aliens were not the point of that scene. The point was love and humanity can always be found...even in the artificial.
@ManofTinProductions THERE ARE NO ALIENS IN A.I.!!!! The beings at the end are the future robots, which have become streamlined as humanity's extinction has taken away the need for specialised robots. The film makes it explicit numerous times. From the first shot of David as a streamlined elongated silhouette, to the future beings belief that humans must be the key to existence, through Joe stating that "when the end comes, all that will be left is us".
@webeffect It's on IMDb. It's one of his camera shots that you see in nearly every movie he makes. Such as a Terminator smashing a skull in "T2:JD", Rose climbing the rail of the ship in "Titanic" or Jake digging his feet into the dirt in "Avatar".
@Theatagonist Many directors show brief close-ups of feet in situations that are in context!! WTF! Cameron certainly doesn't try to find excuses to do it, or drag it on with camera zooms that last a while. Sorry, but you'll have to try harder to make the...umm...Cameron Foot as hilarious and infamous as the lol-worthy Spielberg Face.
UGH that sex scene in Munich ruined the whole movie for me. Love the conclusion with A.I., a film of his I personally adore. But yes, excellent essay.
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Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's cinematographer for the past 20 years, talked about the Spielberg Face in Movieline! "You can imitate his shots, but you can’t imitate every shot."
this trick way too simple and unoriginal, it's not his signature move; there's nothing magical in it and almost every director has done it. even tarantino (that i don't like and i find overrated) has a dozen signature shots in his movies that are at least interesting...but nice job going through all his movies
Those of you who watched Ai in the cinema... In my country this movie was announced as 'family movie', 'youth' movie, or even 'children's' movie. And in the cinema, there were loads of families with small children, and you could hear cries and horrified high pitched voices 'mommy mommy, why did the little boy...' 'daddy daddy why this why that...' This movie can be a very traumatic experience so don't let your kids see it before they are old enough to understand it's only sci-fi.
You're probably wondering why the music seems familiar. It's Schubert's Symphony No. 8, and it's used in that scene in Minority Report when he's using the holographic computer to solve a crime. You're welcome.
@dynpan Thanks for noticing that. I felt kind of like Tom Cruise, scrubbing through 26 Spielberg movies looking for The Face. I just wish I had that computer when making this video, would have taken half the time.
@Fandorific I did it out of my own burning curiosity :) I was irritated as hell because it was sooo damn familiar, yet I couldn't remember where I heard it from!
Nobody should be trapped in such a hell as I was. Anyway, thanks for the video, it was really informative and interesting, hoping for more similar content.
You could always mod a Wiimote and put three pieces of reflective tape on your fingers as seen in watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU :)
@LeboviciAB84 I posted a slightly similar v-blog. It's about the shooting stars in Jaws. Which, of course went on to be one of these repeating elements in the Spielberg canon.
This would have been fine as a quick 'hey, ever notice the spielberg face? look at this!' *insert rest of face video without commentary* ; but the whole let's pretend to sound academic and pretensiously speak on Spielberg's blatant 'audience manipulation' gimmick. HA! like the whole purpose of sets, costumes, acting, and story telling isn't rooted in audience manipulation. what's next for this guy? going to point out John Woo's Doves of Violence or David Lynch's awkward dialogue as, not obvious?
Speilberg leaches off everybody else's talent. Unlimited budjet and the best team, actors and writers, and yet he still manages to fail in so many movies.
It wasn't until I saw this video that I realized this was a common scene in Spielberg movies. Hats off to whoever edited this video. It must have been time consuming to gather together all of these clips.
@j0e2 There is no such thing as a "normal closeup". Every shot in the movie has to have a purpose behind it, and Stephen Spielberg has a different, documented reason for doing a certain type of dolly close-up than other directors would. I think you need to watch more movies.
Too bad you don't have any examples of "Spielberg Faces" from 1941. You'd find a lot of "facial shots" (excuse the expression) in erotic contexts in that movie, way before "Munich", e.g. Nancy Allen's face whenever airplanes are mentioned.
@leandrolefa WTF? He does not do it on purpose. That would be disrespectful to to the source material he uses for his movies (books, historic events, etc.) The only times he went for cheesy on purpose was in Indiana Jones because that reflected the TV serials he was homaging.
@leandrolefa I don't think you're talking about the same kind of cheesy. Watch older epics like Ben-Hur, they are grander than anything Spielberg has done and yet there is no cheesiness.
@webeffect Grander? Maybe. Spielberg is still a giant. Now there's cheesy and non-cheesy. Either can be good or bad depending on how they're handled. Fast Five is far from cheesy, but it sucks (a good laugh, though).
great essay (if i were grading it would be a B- for substance i felt like you repeated the same things you did in the first half of the movie and really drug it out. also "Spielberg fave" was probably used 9000 times i would have taken any other variation of it to make it seem like u weren't saying it so much lol.
This is not really genius. It's just to invoke a primal emotional response from the movie-goer and to keep you identify with the antagonist. Most people think this is somehow "magical." But then again, most people think Spielberg's film-making style is fluent and non-predictable.
@adrianlindsaylohan You moron. That IS Jurassic Park. That was the opening scene in Jurassic Park. That guy died by the velociraptor in the first movie. He was NOT in The Lost World. You made yourself look like an ass.
this is nonsense. many directors, including many from foreign countries, do head shots in their films. some idiot made this video trying to make spielberg look like the god of films. He's a good director but I've seen many other great ones too.
@tangjkd Acknowledgement always looks like worship when witnessed by the uninitiated from afar, refusing to consider what else it may mean other than their own conclusions.
This is an essay, an exploration into what makes people tick. A completely subjective one.
@HaoWenXiang Sure. My point is that many directors around the world use this photography trick. Spielberg should not be the only one that is mentioned. When the title says "spielberg face", that is a problem. It should be titled with something like "a popular filming technique" or "effective filming technique including spielberg ... etc" understand what i mean? when spielberg is the only one that is mentioned, that is a problem.
I had a visceral, emotional reaction to this equal to to what I've felt in any of his movies. Well done sir, you've brilliantly articulated a quality of his movies that I've enjoyed yet never been able to place my finger on.
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youtube should take this down for violation of copyright....i mean come on....i once had a video taken down because i had the song 'venga bus' on it.....take this down
@kepr1 You don't seem to understand the fair use component of copyright law. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work. This video essay certainly applies.
dumb point..thanks mr obvious......i like his movies and all....but to say that Spielberg has some type of exclusive ownership on the ability to creatively make people look in wonder is kind of silly. guess what? every movie has people who look like that. why don't you try and make an essay about how people make movies with people in them....all movies have people in them, and hence will have people's faces......you have tapped into a black hole of a point. thanks for wasting my time.
This actually doesn't make sense. It's a close up of a character's face looking serious and slightly wondrous. It's a proponent of pretty much every movie ever.
the guy is a genius some may say that it's a manipulative signature move but i think that when you see a Spielberg movie you can project yourself inside of thanks to the Spielberg face and it even helps you relating the characters
I really enjoyed this video. However, I don't agree with crediting Spielburg's success and popularity to a simple facial expression. If that were the real case, then many other directors would be just as famous and well known....except that they aren't. I just really do think that Spielburg has always known what he was doing when it came to choosing which projects to work on. Maybe he's just an incredibly lucky guy who's a good guesser....
I definitely JUST wrote a paper all about this for my film analysis class. He uses the acting to make the audience really feel for the characters and connect with the movie. I don't know how he does it but through those close ups the audience really captures emotion and develops a strong relationship with the film.... a reflection of ourselves through the actor's eyes?
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DrChristianShepard 2 weeks ago
Be aware. You can only post positive comments for this video. Yeah, I agree this video is not supposed to be positive: as if master of manipulation didn't give that away. They are just reaction shots and every movie has them. If they characters had no expressions on their faces, they wouldn't be believable characters.
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How can Spielberg fans like this video after hearing this line, and other similar ones!
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webeffect 2 weeks ago
I`m confused. I`m seeing all these comments from Spielberg fanboys who consider this video as being POSITIVE. When I saw it, I got the overhwelming sense of a tongue-in-cheek, half-sarcastic, ridicule piece, like something Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn would do for MTV. My friends got the same impression I did when they watched this. I have no idea whether the video creator intended this, but the tone of this video is not in solemn admiration but in a hilarious ``roast` style!
webeffect 2 weeks ago
1:13 - Cut! Quit looking at the camera! Goddamn it!
silencer299 3 weeks ago
The Spielberg face totally works for me. No matter what director employs it, of course, but Spielberg sure does it well.
lotusfae 3 weeks ago
You get an A for your video essay. Well done.
squareglow 3 weeks ago
but schindler's list?
beautronics 3 weeks ago
Because of this video, so called "professional critics" will now have legitimate reasons to falsly criticize Spielberg's films, instead of misunderstandings and unpopular opinions. Personally, Mr Spielberg will always be my favorite director and my idol.
RomanLettore 3 weeks ago 2
the kubrick stare is better
onraj9mm 3 weeks ago
@onraj9mm Of course it`s better. That`s because Kubrick was a great director.
webeffect 2 weeks ago
Very well written and produced, Mr. Lee! Thank you for sharing.
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@DRJames58 Anthony Hopkins did not win for Amistad. Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams won the two male acting Oscars for that year. Spielberg has never been able to direct anyone to an Oscar. Suck it up.
webeffect 1 month ago
@webeffect If the statement had said "no actor had ever won an Oscar for their portrayal in a Spielberg film" you would be correct. As the statement stands, it's still WRONG!
DRJames58 1 month ago
@DRJames58 Why on earth would I have to make that statement? It's obvious, dumbass! What involvement would Spielberg have in an acting performance which he didn't direct?! DUH! LMAO!
webeffect 1 month ago
@webeffect You should refrain from posting until you have learned both logic and the proper use of English.
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webeffect 1 month ago
I very much enjoyed that. Stellar effort.
Kitsua 1 month ago
mountainqueen, it is Indiana Jones nr. 4.
inquieta90 1 month ago
Thanks a lot.
brother307xs 1 month ago
what is the movie at 1:44 ?
MountainQueen 1 month ago
why Voldemort?
ITidusVaanI 1 month ago
beautiful.
DasGreenCow 1 month ago
Take the Spielberg Face Challenge!
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dubtenko 1 month ago
This was excellent.
onevim 1 month ago
"'People looking!' Very spielbergian."
Fernt 1 month ago
Well done and thank you!
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Great war-time book if you're interested. It's called "The Great Waltz" by Olivia Grosser and it's about three youths who take on Hitler and Stalin - and win! I was thoroughly engrossed in it from beginning to end. It was set during the WWII Siege of Leningrad and the imagery was so vivid. It would be great if Spielberg made a movie based on this book.
arthur5240 1 month ago
GLORIOUS video!! credit for Half of these goosebumps has to go to John Williams.
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JesusPaid4You 1 month ago
This guy sound exactly like LiberalViewer.
spfccsmft 1 month ago
do something on kubrick please
ericscarface 1 month ago
What where the musics playing in the music?
YaredCinema 1 month ago
I never realized that that face my girlfriend does when I take off my pants had a name
raymondking32 1 month ago
Fantastic！
Scatoo98 1 month ago
6:00 - 6:18 LoL. That's why those movies are crap.
OniLinkSword 1 month ago
@OniLinkSword Gorgeous Victoria's Secret models and pulse-pounding action sequences rife with explosions is the reason T3 was crap?
vladimirhorowitz 1 month ago
@vladimirhorowitz Partially. The story and characters were so bad in T3 that I didn't care at all for what was going on. Sure, there were some cool shots, but they were watered down by the over use of them and the characters lack of humanity. It doesn't matter how flashy the coffin is, it's still dead.
OniLinkSword 1 month ago
one of the best 9:40 that i had on youtube :D
splatter321 1 month ago
1:25 what movie is that?
ownedpked 1 month ago
@ownedpked close encounters of the third kind
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JesusPaid4You 1 month ago
zionist jew,.....
wilatemodel 1 month ago
so thats the secret
thatdutchguy89 1 month ago
omg seriously? a close-up as a movie signature?? ridiculous!
BurkhardKrone 1 month ago
@BurkhardKrone It's not the close-up, it's the dolly-in ending in a closeup, that's his trademark.
ElTuco84 1 month ago
yahoo
RazorUltimate 1 month ago
buenisimo.. The spielberg face
mazzipiojoso2 1 month ago
Am I the only one who finds this funny? HAHAHA.
singwee 1 month ago
Finally, somebody gets A.I. Am I the only one who loved that movie? Sure, the aliens were a bit much, but the aliens were not the point of that scene. The point was love and humanity can always be found...even in the artificial.
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@ManofTinProductions THERE ARE NO ALIENS IN A.I.!!!! The beings at the end are the future robots, which have become streamlined as humanity's extinction has taken away the need for specialised robots. The film makes it explicit numerous times. From the first shot of David as a streamlined elongated silhouette, to the future beings belief that humans must be the key to existence, through Joe stating that "when the end comes, all that will be left is us".
midnightcrow 1 month ago 2
Unlike James Cameron, who's signature trademark shot are the feet... Not the best way to capture the emotion or tone of the scene.
Theatagonist 1 month ago
@Theatagonist WTF? How come no one but you has ever heard of this James Cameron "feet" thing?
webeffect 1 month ago
@webeffect It's on IMDb. It's one of his camera shots that you see in nearly every movie he makes. Such as a Terminator smashing a skull in "T2:JD", Rose climbing the rail of the ship in "Titanic" or Jake digging his feet into the dirt in "Avatar".
Theatagonist 3 weeks ago
@Theatagonist Many directors show brief close-ups of feet in situations that are in context!! WTF! Cameron certainly doesn't try to find excuses to do it, or drag it on with camera zooms that last a while. Sorry, but you'll have to try harder to make the...umm...Cameron Foot as hilarious and infamous as the lol-worthy Spielberg Face.
webeffect 3 weeks ago
@webeffect ...uh...okay.
Theatagonist 2 weeks ago
I watched this video with a Spielberg face.
FhengJuagh 1 month ago
Now I am going to notice this face every time I watch a movie, just like that damn repeated scream.
thedominator1122 1 month ago
UGH that sex scene in Munich ruined the whole movie for me. Love the conclusion with A.I., a film of his I personally adore. But yes, excellent essay.
ggfanjase 1 month ago
I like Spielberg ! A great man !!!
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Tokyorosebiz 1 month ago
The freaking kids in Jurassic Park were the worst examples of this. Especially the girl. It was so phony.
RJK4321 2 months ago
All I got from this essay was a very nice way of saying "Steven Spielberg has been repeating himself for over 35 years"
munchkin121290 2 months ago
Saw War Horse. Remembered this video. There were some really good Spielberg faces in it.
Lauren2theHolmes 2 months ago 4
@Lauren2theHolmes When I saw it, I counted about 9 Spielberg faces - two of the horse!
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This was amazingly done. Thank you for sharing it. And Minority Report still remains my favorite Spielberg film.
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...also known as...THE FAP FACE !! Fap Fap Fap Fap !! lmao
KingOfNewYorkHacks 2 months ago
horrible horrible video tell us something we don't know asshole
Song4Alex 2 months ago
epic musik is epic!
MOESEWICHt1 2 months ago
I feel like he was kind of reaching towards the end, but the rest of the video is quality.
PerhapsPossibly 2 months ago
Man by the end of this video I had like two inches of snow on the screen! I wish it was falling like that where I live...
llucaslives 2 months ago
@Fandorific
@6:01 Don't you mean Transformers: Dark of the Moon?
cmJackal09 2 months ago
I don't get the ending
Vonisty 2 months ago
What?
Vonisty 2 months ago
Sorry if I missed it, but where is the famous Jaws one?
Mrster 2 months ago
@Mrster Search for "jaws beach scene". It's a Dolly In/Zoom Out/Spielberg Face.
orka16605 2 months ago
@orka16605
So it wasn't included in here or what? I haven't gone through the video again, it's pretty long.
Mrster 2 months ago
Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's cinematographer for the past 20 years, talked about the Spielberg Face in Movieline! "You can imitate his shots, but you can’t imitate every shot."
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AI is not the only film "ruined by Spielberg's sentimentality". In fact, there are worse...
webeffect 2 months ago
I just saw War Horse, and Spielberg has still not invented anything new for his directorial arsenal.
webeffect 2 months ago
I saw Close Encounters when I was about 12, and even THEN, with no theoretical film knowledge, I was going "WTF is with all these faces?!"
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webeffect 2 months ago
this trick way too simple and unoriginal, it's not his signature move; there's nothing magical in it and almost every director has done it. even tarantino (that i don't like and i find overrated) has a dozen signature shots in his movies that are at least interesting...but nice job going through all his movies
irvykinneas 2 months ago
steven spielberg is overrated and, and so his movies too
nayofa 2 months ago
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Zmister517 2 months ago
Those of you who watched Ai in the cinema... In my country this movie was announced as 'family movie', 'youth' movie, or even 'children's' movie. And in the cinema, there were loads of families with small children, and you could hear cries and horrified high pitched voices 'mommy mommy, why did the little boy...' 'daddy daddy why this why that...' This movie can be a very traumatic experience so don't let your kids see it before they are old enough to understand it's only sci-fi.
mamamijaletmego 2 months ago
You're probably wondering why the music seems familiar. It's Schubert's Symphony No. 8, and it's used in that scene in Minority Report when he's using the holographic computer to solve a crime. You're welcome.
dynpan 2 months ago
@dynpan Thanks for noticing that. I felt kind of like Tom Cruise, scrubbing through 26 Spielberg movies looking for The Face. I just wish I had that computer when making this video, would have taken half the time.
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@Fandorific I did it out of my own burning curiosity :) I was irritated as hell because it was sooo damn familiar, yet I couldn't remember where I heard it from!
Nobody should be trapped in such a hell as I was. Anyway, thanks for the video, it was really informative and interesting, hoping for more similar content.
You could always mod a Wiimote and put three pieces of reflective tape on your fingers as seen in watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU :)
dynpan 1 month ago
I wish all of YouTube were like this.
LeboviciAB84 2 months ago 27
@LeboviciAB84 ha ha :)
JesusPaid4You 1 month ago
@LeboviciAB84 I posted a slightly similar v-blog. It's about the shooting stars in Jaws. Which, of course went on to be one of these repeating elements in the Spielberg canon.
nuclearsaturday 1 month ago
@nuclearsaturday Oh, bliss. Just watching this now, and trying to think of something semi-coherent to say about it.
LeboviciAB84 1 month ago
now I want to watch AI. xp
unofficialdear 2 months ago 2
This would have been fine as a quick 'hey, ever notice the spielberg face? look at this!' *insert rest of face video without commentary* ; but the whole let's pretend to sound academic and pretensiously speak on Spielberg's blatant 'audience manipulation' gimmick. HA! like the whole purpose of sets, costumes, acting, and story telling isn't rooted in audience manipulation. what's next for this guy? going to point out John Woo's Doves of Violence or David Lynch's awkward dialogue as, not obvious?
TheMrSnouts 2 months ago
@TheMrSnouts kinda have to agree
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Well done. A+
artusart 2 months ago
It takes 10 minutes to say that Spielberg is a gimmicky director?
ghostcorps 2 months ago
Isnt that the "i just discovered porn" face?
789123456789 2 months ago 2
Speilberg leaches off everybody else's talent. Unlimited budjet and the best team, actors and writers, and yet he still manages to fail in so many movies.
tubeyoube66 2 months ago
@tubeyoube66 How many have failed? Even his lesser films have something interesting.
ElTuco84 1 month ago
It wasn't until I saw this video that I realized this was a common scene in Spielberg movies. Hats off to whoever edited this video. It must have been time consuming to gather together all of these clips.
kupigana 2 months ago 2
oh come on... he didnt invent the wheel. great pocorn director though
wunderfantastike 2 months ago
2:30 i don't like the person on the left...
OGLMo21 2 months ago
What about the Spielberg Ending ? and yes he did f#%k A.I
furnibird 2 months ago
@furnibird
The ending was Kubrick's idea.
MountDoomPictures 2 months ago
SPIELBERG FACE versus KUBRICK STATE - blinking contest - go!
neilamadhava 2 months ago
"Ohhh I thought that was going to be a fart but it wasn't..."
MFNparklife 2 months ago
And a new drinking game is born!
propvtOlig 2 months ago 70
This video is definitely interesting, but where is the commentary on Sergio Leone? I think it could be argued that he's the master of the face.
clubsilencio2342 2 months ago 5
I don't believe that I never noticed this! Now that you pointed it out I feel like such a dumb ass.
Good job putting this together.
raver14 2 months ago
I love your comment about Spielberg's post-9/11 films - especially Dakota Fanning's expressions in War of the Worlds. Really well done! :)
msheesee 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Sad THIS VIDEO did not include actors and gizmo in GREMLINS. :(
rubien44 2 months ago
There's no different between "the spielberg face" and a normal closeup like the one in every movie. I think you're off your rocker.
j0e2 2 months ago
@j0e2 There is no such thing as a "normal closeup". Every shot in the movie has to have a purpose behind it, and Stephen Spielberg has a different, documented reason for doing a certain type of dolly close-up than other directors would. I think you need to watch more movies.
HaoWenXiang 2 months ago
Please make more videos like these.
frankie112 2 months ago
Too bad you don't have any examples of "Spielberg Faces" from 1941. You'd find a lot of "facial shots" (excuse the expression) in erotic contexts in that movie, way before "Munich", e.g. Nancy Allen's face whenever airplanes are mentioned.
weikko79 2 months ago
Great work, Kevin. I probably had the Spielberg Face on as I watched it.
I love film and I love Spielberg's work.
Really, wonderful essay.
leandrolefa 2 months ago 32
@leandrolefa Why would you applaud this video when you're a fan of Spielberg? You LIKE what the video says about his cheesy over-abundance?
webeffect 2 months ago
@webeffect I do think Spielberg is the king of cheesy moments. But I don't think that's a bad thing.
He goes for cheesy, does it wonderfully, people pack cinemas to see it, in tears.
leandrolefa 2 months ago
@leandrolefa WTF? He does not do it on purpose. That would be disrespectful to to the source material he uses for his movies (books, historic events, etc.) The only times he went for cheesy on purpose was in Indiana Jones because that reflected the TV serials he was homaging.
webeffect 2 months ago
@webeffect Why do you think cheesy is such a terrible thing?
And man, he certainly does it on purpose. He's the best on doing it.
I so wish I get to work with him because he's so grand, but now I do also because I want to ask him that. I'll let you know.
leandrolefa 1 month ago
@leandrolefa I don't think you're talking about the same kind of cheesy. Watch older epics like Ben-Hur, they are grander than anything Spielberg has done and yet there is no cheesiness.
webeffect 1 month ago
@webeffect Grander? Maybe. Spielberg is still a giant. Now there's cheesy and non-cheesy. Either can be good or bad depending on how they're handled. Fast Five is far from cheesy, but it sucks (a good laugh, though).
leandrolefa 1 month ago
6:03 - Revenge of the Fallen? I think you mean Dark of the Moon.
MasterNacho94 2 months ago
@HillbillyKate Watch it again. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was in there, multiple times.
kc6201 2 months ago
THis is great!
bobjenz 2 months ago
I always thought AI was unjustly maligned, too. Thank you for helping to delineate why.
ashcol47 2 months ago 3
this is brilliant
gotwonderland 2 months ago
Rick Perry should always make the Spielberg face instead of saying dumb and stupid things.
pOpCoRn0531 2 months ago 2
Well when I saw it and it had 95 views, I did tell a few people on Facebook/Twitter, but not sure I can take credit for nearly 250,000 views lol
TVPresentingAdviceUK 2 months ago
if thats the "Spielberg face" than i do that sucka every day after a heavy meal.
scoobyroo06 2 months ago
Eric Bana makes a Spielberg "O" Face at 7:09
lodge7490 2 months ago
That was really cool to see for a movie nerd like me :)
Laura7AndSavanna4 2 months ago
great essay (if i were grading it would be a B- for substance i felt like you repeated the same things you did in the first half of the movie and really drug it out. also "Spielberg fave" was probably used 9000 times i would have taken any other variation of it to make it seem like u weren't saying it so much lol.
Good project
soulcalibur22 2 months ago
Great video. Thanks
pancraselondon 2 months ago
this is beyond meme
qx4n9e1xp 2 months ago
This is not really genius. It's just to invoke a primal emotional response from the movie-goer and to keep you identify with the antagonist. Most people think this is somehow "magical." But then again, most people think Spielberg's film-making style is fluent and non-predictable.
southport97 2 months ago
"What are Movies? The Traces of our Dreams that stay after the Dreamers have gone away." Amazingly intriguing documentary feature.
iambhavdeep 2 months ago 3
haha! awesome.
BTW Yahoo brought me here.
dannerzme 2 months ago
Apparently I knew this, but iI didn't know that I knew it.
In a tv advertisement I saw for "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero" there is a "Spielberg face" scene and I instantly thought of Steven Spielberg.
Now I know why :)
GonkThePowerDroid 2 months ago
Effective!
ClueMaster317 2 months ago
Great video!
realunoriginal 2 months ago
thanks you
lordmajd 2 months ago
Excellent. Really Excellent.
crashowie11 2 months ago
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adrianlindsaylohan 2 months ago
@adrianlindsaylohan You moron. That IS Jurassic Park. That was the opening scene in Jurassic Park. That guy died by the velociraptor in the first movie. He was NOT in The Lost World. You made yourself look like an ass.
Source: Actual Jurassic Park fan/Spielberg fan
DaveTheSithLord 2 months ago
this is nonsense. many directors, including many from foreign countries, do head shots in their films. some idiot made this video trying to make spielberg look like the god of films. He's a good director but I've seen many other great ones too.
tangjkd 2 months ago
@tangjkd Acknowledgement always looks like worship when witnessed by the uninitiated from afar, refusing to consider what else it may mean other than their own conclusions.
This is an essay, an exploration into what makes people tick. A completely subjective one.
HaoWenXiang 2 months ago
@HaoWenXiang Sure. My point is that many directors around the world use this photography trick. Spielberg should not be the only one that is mentioned. When the title says "spielberg face", that is a problem. It should be titled with something like "a popular filming technique" or "effective filming technique including spielberg ... etc" understand what i mean? when spielberg is the only one that is mentioned, that is a problem.
tangjkd 2 months ago
Next up, the Tarantino foot?
lovebread4h8sandwich 2 months ago 3
I had a visceral, emotional reaction to this equal to to what I've felt in any of his movies. Well done sir, you've brilliantly articulated a quality of his movies that I've enjoyed yet never been able to place my finger on.
Seriously, thank you for making this.
ShawnLaramie 2 months ago
@ShawnLaramie nice use of a thesaurus, lmao, "visceral"
itsanawesomeguy 2 months ago
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CALIFORNIAspaceship 2 months ago
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youtube should take this down for violation of copyright....i mean come on....i once had a video taken down because i had the song 'venga bus' on it.....take this down
kepr1 2 months ago
@kepr1 You don't seem to understand the fair use component of copyright law. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work. This video essay certainly applies.
VictimOfBoredom 2 months ago
dumb point..thanks mr obvious......i like his movies and all....but to say that Spielberg has some type of exclusive ownership on the ability to creatively make people look in wonder is kind of silly. guess what? every movie has people who look like that. why don't you try and make an essay about how people make movies with people in them....all movies have people in them, and hence will have people's faces......you have tapped into a black hole of a point. thanks for wasting my time.
kepr1 2 months ago
@kepr1 You aren't too keen on the auteur theory are you?
lovebread4h8sandwich 2 months ago
fuck you, yahoo.
cenasgay9111 2 months ago
This actually doesn't make sense. It's a close up of a character's face looking serious and slightly wondrous. It's a proponent of pretty much every movie ever.
rackfocus 2 months ago
@rackfocus A proponent is a person who advocates a theory, proposal, or project....
VictimOfBoredom 2 months ago
@VictimOfBoredom. I meant component. But I'm sure glad you were there to point that out.
rackfocus 2 months ago
the guy is a genius some may say that it's a manipulative signature move but i think that when you see a Spielberg movie you can project yourself inside of thanks to the Spielberg face and it even helps you relating the characters
PaulThoreau 2 months ago
I really enjoyed this video. However, I don't agree with crediting Spielburg's success and popularity to a simple facial expression. If that were the real case, then many other directors would be just as famous and well known....except that they aren't. I just really do think that Spielburg has always known what he was doing when it came to choosing which projects to work on. Maybe he's just an incredibly lucky guy who's a good guesser....
Adidasoccer007 2 months ago
Great job.
lifeinpictures 2 months ago
It was great until the narrative started that was really annoying.
chastvalex 2 months ago
I spy Super 8 :)
vsimmonds0123 2 months ago
i make the spielberg face whenever i have an orgasm.
miftun 2 months ago 34
I definitely JUST wrote a paper all about this for my film analysis class. He uses the acting to make the audience really feel for the characters and connect with the movie. I don't know how he does it but through those close ups the audience really captures emotion and develops a strong relationship with the film.... a reflection of ourselves through the actor's eyes?
whompatime 2 months ago