Steven Spielberg tried his hand at a World War II film in 1979, but had a rough landing…
Steven Spielberg entered the history of war cinema with Save Private Ryan and the World War II series War brothers (with whom he co-produced Tom Hanks), released only a few years later, is one of the greatest works on the subject.
Whatever you think of Saving Private Ryan, for which Spielberg received his second directing Oscar in 1999: the unforgettable and gripping opening sequence, which depicts the so-called D-Day, or the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, is a technical masterpiece – which also earned the film well-deserved Oscars for cinematography and best sound.
But while Saving Private Ryan is definitely the first film that comes to mind when talking about war films from the creator of AI – Artificial Intelligence, is by no means his first contribution to this genre. Spielberg had already dedicated himself to the Second World War in Empire of the Sun (1987, starring Cristiano Balla, he was 13 years old at the time), but made the Sino-Japanese War the setting of his story. Already 1941 – A truly crazy warmade by the filmmaker in 1979, it is set in Los Angeles, shaken by the attack on Pearl Harbor.
With Shark (1975) e Close encounters of the third kind (1977), Spielberg had just made the two films that consolidated his reputation as a magical director…
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