To mark his 60th birthday, we celebrate the genius of Steven Spielberg by counting down (in no particular order) the greatest moments, amazing stories and monumental impact of the world's greatest film director...
WORDS: Ian Freer and Ross Bennett
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The Genius Of Duel
In 1971, Steven Spielberg's Duel transformed the staid genre of the TV Movie Of The Week. Taking a simple idea - an ordinary Joe (Dennis Weaver) is hunted on the highway by a killer truck - Spielberg took a pared down premise and transformed it into TV gold - so good that it received a theatrical release in the UK. This graph shows how Spielberg orchestrared a simple road trip into riveting, white-knuckle storytelling...
1 Truck waves car onto oncoming traffic. |
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2 Truck rams car off road. |
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3 Confronting trucker. |
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4 Truck pushes car onto train track. |
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5 Truck rams phonebox. |
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6 Mann's car overheats. |
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7 Truck goes off the cliff. |
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