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Spielberg Films Categorized By Holiday
Since it's Independence Day, why not?
New Year's Day: Minority Report
Can't think of any Spielberg film that has New Year's in it, aside from maybe Catch Me If You Can, and I'm saving that for Christmas. But Minority Report is all about the future, both in terms of timeline vs. us here, and one's own future, and so many of us look to New Year's Day as the day from which to plot the rest of our lives, year after year. Plus it's kind of like the New Year's-themed 1947 fantasy film noir Repeat Performance, about changing one's fate... I'll stick with this.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Amistad
Valentine's Day: West Side Story
Easter: Ready Player One
Hey... The main characters are all chasing an egg throughout the film, and it did come out around Eastertime in 2018!
Mother's Day: The Fabelmans
Memorial Day: Saving Private Ryan
Father's Day: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Independence Day: Jaws
Labor Day: The Terminal (maybe Spielberg's most class-conscious film: about an immigrant who's taken in by a ragtag group of blue collar workers at John F. Kennedy International Airport)
Halloween: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Thanksgiving: The Color Purple
Hanukkah: Schindler's List
Christmas: Catch Me If You Can
Feel free to offer thoughts, tweaks, and your own list(s)!
u/Big-Calligrapher7199 — 2 days ago
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Does Spielberg's Dreamworks still exist
Other than animation does the studio exist as a live action studio or did it change it's name to Amblin Partners?
u/ComfortableCare8897 — 4 days ago
My Spielberg Collection
Have a long way to go, but just got the Indiana Jones 4K set for Prime Day and the shelf is coming along nicely👍🏻
u/Scared_Bumblebee5781 — 4 days ago
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If Disclosure Day had been made in the 1970s, what do you think it would have been like and what could the cast have been?
I'm thinking:
Margaret Fairchild - Mary Tyler Moore
Dr. Daniel Kellner - Dustin Hoffman
Noah Scanlon - Robert Shaw
Jane Blankenship - Raquel Welch
Hugo Wakefield - James Earl Jones
Sister Maura - Mary Wickes
u/AndrewHNPX — 4 days ago
How DISCLOSURE DAY is really about Steven Spielberg going on an alien adventure with his Mom (and is a spiritual sequel to THE FABELMANS)
I struggled with this movie a bit upon my first viewing. It had a lot of elements and moments that I really liked but just as many others that left me a little bit perplexed. But seeing it for a second time the movie really clicked into place for me. Part of what made it work is seeing just how this is one of the most personal movies Steven Spielberg has ever made and that The Fabelmans is really the skeleton key that unlocks the whole thing.
Spielberg talks about what an emotionally taxing experience making The Fabelmans was and given that this was his immediate follow-up, from a 70-page treatment he wrote himself, it's not hard to see how the shadow of making The Fabelmans covers so much of what happens in Disclosure Day. It's a movie about lost childhood and needing to return home to rediscover who you are and what your purpose is.
Let's first talk about how Josh O'Connor's Daniel is a surrogate for Spielberg himself. First off he's got the classic Spielbergian protagonist look and we can easily imagine that Elliot from E.T. grew up to look like Daniel in this movie (he's even got a hoodie!). We find him desperately wanting to show the world a secret that he believes belongs to everyone -- there are alien beings and they're here for good. This is something Spielberg has been trying to communicate to the world his whole career. In the safe house with Jane, Daniel says he's not going to tell her, "I'm going to show you." Show, don't tell is classic director-speak. Later Daniel talks about once he discovered his gifts, it almost felt like a curse and that he couldn't relate to others and make friends. This is a common feeling amongst gifted people and Spielberg heavily explored this theme in The Fabelmans. The scene where he watches a reflection of himself filming a family argument -- showcasing a gift he can't turn off -- looms large. At the end of the movie, we find Daniel in the TV control room directing the TV broadcast. Spielberg loves watching SNL tapings and probably often imagines himself getting to do this.
Now let's talk about how Emily Blunt's Margaret is a surrogate for Spielberg's mom. Margaret is talented but feels like she lacks purpose and has been struggling with her lack of purpose all her life (Hugo heavily re-enforces this at the house). Leah, Spielberg's mom, was a talented concert pianist who had to give up that pursuit to raise a family. Something Steven says always made her feel trapped. Throughout the movie, Margaret connects with other characters through her powers of empathy. She essentially goes throughout the movie intensely mothering people. There's also lots of elements to Blunt's performance that fits alongside Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans. She's a little spastic but deeply feeling. At one point Daniel asks Margaret, "Can you tell me anything about my childhood before I was 10?". This is something an adult son would ask his mother. Margaret has a heavy motherly vibe with Daniel and when Daniel needs to help her through a panic attack what does he do? He rests her hands against piano chords to calm her.
Later in the movie, Hugo sits Margaret and Daniel down and tells them how one of them has the power of empathy (emotion) and the other has the power of math. Spielberg often describes his parents as representing these two ideas. He inherited his technical prowess from his father (a mathematician) and he inherited the emotional side of himself from his mother.
But the biggest element that makes this a movie about Spielberg and his mom is what they share together. They both had the same shared experience together... or a shared secret. A secret that was a fracture point for their childhoods/home life. In the movie it's being abducted by aliens. In Spielberg's life, it's his discovery of his mother's affair. Spielberg talks about how having that shared lie, or shared secret, with his mom made them feel like they were in a separate world together and that it was an isolating experience. In order to process this, they needed to return home to Margaret's childhood house. For Spielberg, it was returning to his childhood house to make The Fabelmans.
Disclosure Day is a bit of a goofy and messy movie at times, but the second time around I found so much thematic richness and was moved how Spielberg was still processing The Fabelmans through a classic throwback Spielbergian adventure story (and bringing his mom along for the ride). I think this movie is really great and look forward to watching again and finding more details.
I know you.
I know you, too.
u/FistsOfMcCluskey — 5 days ago
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"They're moving herds. They do move in herds."
u/Swimming_Ambition101 — 5 days ago
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Disclosure Day has passed $100 million at the International Box Office
boxofficemojo.comu/ParamedicSea5779 — 6 days ago
New album "John Williams Legacy" announced by Deutsche Grammophon
https://www.johnwilliamslegacy.com
Looks to be a compilation of the most well-known recordings (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, etc.) from Berlin, Vienna, and LA. I've been waiting for something like this!!
u/MusicalSofas — 7 days ago
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The reviews of Disclosure Day on the UFO sub are coming from a completely different perspective.
It’s very interesting reading their thread over there. They are extremely grateful for the movie and the respect it gives the subject.
They feel heard is what I’m reading.
u/dan7777777 — 6 days ago
After Two Viewings
I am so glad I caught Disclosure Day for a second time in the theater. It benefits greatly from a big screen and surround sound. And because it seems to be on course to leave theaters quickly.
That's a shame. I enjoyed it the first time. A second viewing expanded it into something akin to a religious experience. (Literally, actually. "You haven't lost faith in God. You've lost faith in people.") What seemed a bit of a hot mess scriptwise on first go revealed a tight construction on second. As an example and as with any script, one should always begin by comparing the information we're first given with what we see/hear at the end. Opening: wrestling match. Loud audience. Protagonist sitting still and pensive at the center of the turmoil. We, the audience, are kicked in the face, almost literally. Ending: news feed going out to the world. Audience is hushed and paying rapt attention. Protagonist stands determinedly in closeup and addresses us, the audience on screen and off, with one word that we're in a perfect state to hear. "Listen."
I've been on the Internet a bit too much lately and many people, mostly cynics who flee from the first signs of sentiment and who clearly expected something from Spielberg they didn't get, found plenty of opportunities to roll their eyes and tune out due to any countless number of story improbabilities, but they shouldn't have been so quick. The movie is ridiculously self-aware of how far-fetched it is -- and, crucially, so are the characters. Example: Daniel repeatedly saying, "What am I doing?" as he baffles himself that his unlikely "plan" to steal a car, rescue Jane, and escape unscathed actually works! (It's like an inversion of the proverb: "Man plans; God laughs.") I'll put it this way. There's a huge difference between things being implausible for the audience and being difficult to swallow for the protagonists. For one thing, the second case which involves characters being swept along out of their control as if caught in a groove, makes everything strangely probable for viewers, unless they're not listening to the characters' utterances.
I also don't understand why people expected anything other than what the film delivers -- unless they have a very different idea of what Spielberg is about than I do. Maybe they just lean hard into his least personal and least sentimental works like Jurassic Park (a great film, don't get me wrong) while I'm more in love with E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. I'll limit myself to one example. Through a wide range his films, Spielberg loves the idea of suddenly placing his characters in peril on the edge of a physical precipice that, geographically speaking, comes out of nowhere. It's not meant to make real world sense so much as emotional sense. In Jurassic Park, the car tumbles. In E.T., the kids are swept away as if on a flying carpet. (Aliens via Spielberg possess seemingly magical powers. E.T. proves Gertie's "Give me a break" wrong by actually becoming invisible to her distracted mom in the kitchen. And building a device capable of contacting the mother ship out of household items! How far-fetched is that?) In Disclosure Day, Spielberg rescues his characters by employing a clever homage to his early chase film Duel. I can hear Daniel thinking "What are we doing?" all over again, but I'm not gonna lie. Part of me wanted that car to take flight and cause Daniel to shout, "WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Not sure if that would've made what follows easier or more difficult for detractors to swallow, but I would have smiled.
Only three Spielberg movies have made me cry as much. The Color Purple, Schindler's List, and A.I Artificial Intelligence. Well, Schindler's List is way out ahead of them all. That movie has destroyed me all three times. And speaking of the Holocaust. Disclosure Day clearly completes a trilogy about benign alien visitors being mistreated by authorities but forming a bond with chosen humans, a trilogy of empathy. But Disclosure Day, I speculate, also closes out a trilogy of his feelings about the persecution of Jews, and other Others like blacks, gays, and persons with autism, during WWII that began literally with Schindler's List and continued allegorically with A.I Artificial Intelligence. (Mechas as Jews. Humans as Nazis.) Twice now, I've watched the footage near the end of Disclosure Day and thought immediately of the beyond horrifying footage from films like Alain Resnais's Night and Fog.
u/altgodkub2024 — 8 days ago
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What Comes After the Final Word of Dialogue in "Disclosure Day"
If you have the least bit of imagination, it's obvious what comes after the final word of dialogue uttered, anyway. Spielberg and Koepp want you to exercise your brain a little.
HUGE SPOILERS WARNING HERE.
The "cardinal" shows up. Margaret becomes transfixed while her boyfriend Jackson is a bit shocked and amused. After Jackson shoos the bird away, he sits back down at the table. Within seconds Margaret begins speaking in Russian. She's continuing the conversation they were having, about her wanting to go to a bigger media market, and how he does not want to move from Kansas City. She brings up New York or Chicago as possibilities, but just as quickly short-circuits the conversation by saying that it's never a good day for them to talk about such things. Jackson's great failing as a boyfriend is--you guessed it--he has trouble listening. He even preemptively shuts down the audition Margaret had (she was, objectively speaking, terrible, overenunciating words and being overdramatic about the perils of the conflict that could bring the world to nuclear war), upsetting Margaret.
It takes Jackson's bluntness to snap Margaret out of her cardinal-induced ranting in Russian. She has no idea what Jackson is talking about, as he's unsure if she was speaking Russian or Polish or what. He's more than a little bit disturbed and worried.
Moments later, after being pulled over by the cop... And, do note: it's only after the policeman whips off the sunglasses that she can "read" him by looking in his eyes... She gets to the news station studio, and before long she finds herself speaking Korean.
So it has been established by that point that she is capable of speaking the languages of the powers that are instrumental in leading the world into a nuclear conflagration (plus English, which would cover the U.S., Great Britain, and other English-speaking languages).
Once she says, "Listen..." as a plea, is it not obvious that she addresses both the Russian and Korean governments in their respective tongues? This is Disclosure Day bleeding into something of a new take on The Day the Earth Stood Still. The aliens are terrified of what these humans, so richly endowed with empathy, are nevertheless close to the brink of a possible civilizationally-catastrophic conflict.
People complaining about the ending being a letdown just aren't doing the simple cinematic math problem, which is fitting for a film about the universal language of mathematics!
u/Big-Calligrapher7199 — 7 days ago
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What's the Greatest John Williams Score in a Spielberg Movie?
My pick is E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. It's one of Williams' five Oscar winning scores.
u/Swimming_Ambition101 — 8 days ago
Feel like Disclosure Day is overly complicated and sincere for mass audience
Just went to the movie for the second time. This time with my kids. And God this movie hits harder on second watch when you already know everything.
It seems Steven Spielberg wanted to make huge legacy film and just put everything he got into it, making it extremely convoluted and hard to digest. Closest example I got is "The Boy and the Heron" by Hayao Miazaki, where narrative is so naked and intense and at the same time allegorical it gives you constant feelings of confusion, anxiety and somehow pure catharsis at every moment. I guess this is the real reason why people find it so difficult to understand and express so much concern about it.
As far as I get it movie is not about aliens whatsoever. Aliens is just a MacGuffin, while the real topic of the movie is the world we are living in today. And the world today is extremely frightening.
World war 3 is not something hypothetical anymore, it is the actual reality we are living in and nuclear war apocalypse is the only available next step. You get the feeling of this emergency everywhere in the movie, yet it is never focused, working as a background or backbone for the story silently building the sense of anxiety.
On rare occasions it bursts open like the moment you see people are just taking out the shop at gas station with several guys just peeing at the wall of it at the same time. At that moment you don't know what to feel because you know this is totally possible nowadays yet it is shocking and awakening.
At the same time movie characters are acting as it is not a big deal. Boyfriend of Emily Blunt heroine wants to do music while she is struggling with this idea to become stupid weekend tv presenter using the actual end of the world as the material for her promotion. They got used to this and can't take it seriously anymore. In a way this is the topic we already saw in Don't look up, yet given with opportunity of solution.
And what Spielberg is offering as a solution is so seemingly naive and simple people feel repulsed by it. His allegory is classic cinema myth of aliens that deliberately made as simple, recognizable and straightforward as possible. This is his branded way of presenting it the, while other director could have used religious revelations or something else, it doesn't matter.
Simple truth of listening, believing in something bigger, purer or higher feels stupid. Yet movie is constantly hitting you in the head with it mixing with constant stress the way wrestler is doing it in the opening scene, trying to wake you up.
The actual methods Sipelberg uses for it are extremely straightforward seemingly primitive, yet in reality are never simple.
Light and dark contrast fills the picture the whole movie. Lots of light sources are constantly changing on screen shining and floating in different ways, signalizing the idea of truth's ability to leak through the darkness of the world.
Cinematography might be feeling extremely simple as well, yet you can notice camera is actually rarely stands still in the movie, stressing the dizziness and constant struggle. Insanely intense car stealing scene or actual 4 minute oner when Emily Blunt rushes into the studio in the beginning of the movie and fainting in the end feels so natural and organic you don't ever think how complex and effective it is, yet you are feeling the incredible rush it produces.
At the same time despite strong action this movie has an actual zero screen violence, no one ever hits another person or let alone killing somebody, stressing humane message Spielberg wants to send.
This idea of simple truth triumph and inability of people to accept this is central to the movie. Ex-nun can't believe in the people of the world to process it. Wardex employees can't understand why they can't stop Emily Blunt in the scene where she uses their empathy against their ill will as if empathy is some other world super weapon. Same Wardex people literally can't see childhood home where believers are hiding from them and win. What they can see are only the glimpses of the light and it's beautiful shining in the puddles.
The pivotal moment of the movie is protagonists' awakening in the childhood home expressing the acceptance of this pure goodness happened to them instead of blocking it as something bad. Revelation is shocking them, cause anger in the beginning and empowered catharsis in the end.
The very same thing happens in the finale of the movie that attracts the most complaints from audience only because this time it is happening to them/us. Yes, alien life revelation would stop the WW3. Yes, human empathy, wisdom and listening are actual only real options we have instead of it. Yet we are not ready for that. We feel the same tremble, confusion and fear that we are actually suppose to feel at the moment. Yet to feel catharsis you have to understand what is it really about.
u/superkapitan82 — 8 days ago
UPDATED, ORGANIZED, MCKENNA BRIDGER EXPOSÉ
WHO IS SHE: Mckenna Bridger is a real human being who lies on the internet using ai and other resources to try and gain recognition in her “acting” career. Her real name is Bridget Davis and she is 23 years old. She is also involved in many fandoms using the alias “Holly”. For an easier read, I will be referring to her as Bridger throughout this, and Mckenna Grace will simply be Grace.
WHY IS SHE BEING SPOKEN ABOUT
Mckenna/Bridget/Holly recently gained attention due to false reporting that she was cast in the new hunger games sunrise of the reaping film as “Merrilee”, Grace’s “Maysilee” twin sister. Some people reported her to simply be a stunt or body double for the film, while others assumed she would actually play the role of Merrilee on screen. This was later disproven when the SOTR trailer was released, and showed Mckenna Grace portraying both sisters, but these rumors were no accident. In fact they were started by Bridger herself.Â
Going by the name of Holly, Bridger has been a part of THG fandom for years. Her account @/everlark has gained over 13k followers on instagram, and many former mutuals of her have come out and said disturbing things about her. you can find this information here https://xcancel.com/i/status/2043271772024283200
When Bridger was “announced” to be in SOTR a specific headshot of herself was being posted that looked oddly similar to Grace. this was later confirmed to be ai by Bridger via dms. despite her comments saying she would never use a picture of herself that is not real, that image can be found in her online resumes (actors access, backstage)
This ai headshot is just the beginning of her odd obsession with Grace though. As she goes by the name Mckenna for acting, many believe she copied Grace intentionally. She claims to have had to change her name for sag purposes, but research shows she is not a part of sag, as seen above where it says non-union.
she also often posts about Grace in a parasocial way via letterboxd. calling her “my bff” and “my girl” despite the fact that she does not have any connection to Grace.
Her pinterest account (now deleted) not only has a board dedicated to Grace, but uses an image of hers as Bridger’s profile picture.
her pinterest also has a board for a film Bridger wrote and acted in called Nightmare which seems to be a very direct copy of one of Grace’s scenes in TheHandmaid’s Tale.
in an attempt to seem closer to Grace, as well as other actors in her favorite fandoms, Bridger began to fake imdb credits. While her imdb has recently been scrubbed, it previously stated she was a stand in for productions such as Scream 7, Stanger Things, and Thunderbolts. Her website still claims she was a production assistant in stranger things
This is untrue, as these jobs were actually done by Camille Kinloch.Â
Grace isn’t the only SOTR actor that Bridger seems to be obsessed with though, as she seems to be infatuated with 14 year old Iona Bell who plays “Lou Lou”. Please remember that Bridger is an adult, while Iona is a minor.Â
Iona has been very public about taking classes at mark jermin (a uk based acting school and agency). Bridger started doing online classes with them in 2026, despite the inconvenient time zones, just to get closer to iona. look at the way she talks about iona and tries to link herself to her on a fanpage she owns for herself
Bridger also own multiple imdb accounts in order to create “lists” linking her to Grace, Iona Bell, other child actors, and actors Emily Blunt and John Krazinski. you can tell all these accounts are hers because they have all watched a vertical show Bridger actually did.
Her obsessions with Blunt and Krazinski is ironic, considering she claims to be a part of the new films Disclosure Day that stars Blunt, and Jack Ryan Ghost Wars that stars Krazinski. This does not appear to be a coincidence.
UPDATE- BRIDGER DID NOT APPEAR IN DISCLOSURE DAY DESPITE CONSTANTLY SAYING SHE WAS IN IT.
While Jack Ryan has little information out currently, and there is no strong evidence of Bridger being in it, there is strong evidence that she is not a part of the Disclosure Day cast.
On her pinterest, this board was found, that includes a singular image of Delaney Anne Cuthbert. Cuthbert has been confirmed to be playing a younger version of Blunt, despite Bridger’s self made subreddit trying to start rumors that it was her role.
This is upsetting as Bridger has been mentioned in many posts and articles for Disclosure Day, but Cuthbert has not, meaning an adult is trying to take credit for a child’s work.Â
Bridger’s name was included on the wiki for Disclosure Day, which may be why her name was included in articles about the film. Wikipedia edits are public though, and thanks to @/wlwfstar on twitter/x we have a full timeline of these edits https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-V85p27i-KOlIQzorkZSB2EQebKyJNkOJNVp5J6T-5w/edit?tab=t.0
Bridger also created an image of her in disclosure day that is clearly ai.
Bridger’s connection to AI doesn’t stop with The Hunger Games and Disclosure Day though, as she has been linked to multiple projects on imdb that are entirely ai.
not only are the images clearly ai, but everybody else involved is ai, and they all share similar names to people involved in fandoms she finds herself in.
u/Adept_Sail6851 — 9 days ago