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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His Skill With Special Effects
The tripods emerge in War Of The Worlds.
Visual effects have played some part in all 24 of the theatrical films that Steven Spielberg has directed. Sometimes they are showstoppers - the mothership in Close Encounters, the jetpack chase in Minority Report, the arrival of the tripods in War Of The Worlds. Other times they are grace notes - the flash of light as the Nagasaki bomb explodes in Empire Of The Sun, the red coat in Schindler's List, the digital vistas of new Hampton in Amistad. He was worked with the best effects gurus in the business (Douglas Trumbull, Dennis Muren, Stan Winston) and pioneered special effects innovations (the cloud tank of Close Encounters, the CGI of Jurassic Park). But perhaps the greatest contribution Spielberg has made to visual effects is his thinking perfectly integrating effects into the fabric of the movie, using effects to tell rather than swamp a story.
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