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Post by rick on Oct 22, 2012 13:49:39 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 22, 2012 14:46:37 GMT -5
The interview really revealed a lot about Spielberg's relationship with his parents, especially his father, and how a lot of that has figured into many of his biggest and best-known movie hits, including E.T., of course. And there was the preview for his new film LINCOLN, about our nation's 16th president.
For the record: when they were living in Arizona, Steven and his family lived in the very stark, white-bread Arcadia neighborhood in the east section of Phoenix. They were the target of some anti-Semitic attacks, but ironically the anti-Semitism directed at Steven was more virulent in Saratoga, California, where the family moved to in 1964.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 23, 2012 11:09:30 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 23, 2012 11:57:45 GMT -5
Well you have to remember that they lived there in the late 50s and early 60s, when, as Spielberg himself once said, storefronts still had old hitching posts, as a reminder of Arizona's Old West history. Suburbia had only just begun taking root in Phoenix then. It looked every bit like the depictions of middle-class suburban life that he depicted in several of his films, including CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and E.T.; and contrary to what people may think, none of those films ever glorified suburban life. If anything, he sometimes saw suburban life and its conformist values with a very critical and jaundiced eye.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 23, 2012 13:20:05 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 24, 2012 18:14:20 GMT -5
Although he emphasized the anti-Semitism he encountered while living in Arizona, Spielberg still does consider it his home state because it was where he really started being a filmmaker, with all the 8-millimeter war and sci-fi films he shot in and around Phoenix and Scottsdale, including at Sky Harbor Airport and Camelback Mountain.
But even though he was inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2007 alongside Linda and Stevie Nicks, I suspect he'd be as dismayed and infuriated by the bigotry going on down there as Linda is.
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