Francis Ford Coppola:
Francis Ford Coppola born April 7, 1939 is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather, a film which revolutionised movie-making in the gangster genre.
He directed 1979's Apocalypse Now. Notorious for its over-long and strenuous production, the film was nonetheless critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
Coppola is fascinated by families – their members, structures, dynamics, rules and rituals. These families come in all shapes and sizes: those created by birth (The Godfather) and social forces (The Outsiders). Coppola is intensely interested in how people are able (or unable) to live and work together.
His works are be acclaimed as paradigmatic examples of movies that explore and dissect the workings of systems. In his later films, after The Godfather trilogy, he embedded within these systems stories of people going through journeys of maturation and discovery. Coppola set out to capture the stages by which a person comes to know and accept himself and make peace with the demons that plague him, such as Apocalypse Now.
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Although Coppola demonstrates a more violent vision of drama films, his exploration of characters and their narratives is something that we can use to inspire our film narrative, such as the way he captures the way a person can come to terms with themselves and their personal demons.
Steven Spielburg:
Steven Spielberg, born December 18, 1946, is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and business magnate. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres, such as Drama, Science-Fiction and Adventure. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time.
Spielberg's films often deal with several recurring themes. Most of his films deal with ordinary characters searching for or coming in contact with extraordinary beings or finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances. A strong consistent theme in his family-friendly work is a childlike, even naïve, sense of wonder and faith, as attested by works such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
The most persistent theme throughout his films is tension in parent-child relationships. Parents (often fathers) are reluctant, absent or ignorant. The notable absence of Elliott's father in E.T., is the most famous example of this theme. Most of his films are generally optimistic in nature. Critics frequently accuse his films of being overly sentimental, though Spielberg feels it is fine as long as it is disguised.
Looking at Stephen Spielburg can give our group some inspiration into our media piece as many of his films we are from the drama genre are often intertwined with the science genre, something very similar to fantasy.
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