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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Steven Spielberg: Slime Mold
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 22:51:29 EDT
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> In article <527@cvl.UUCP> hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) writes:
> >
> >Why does Steven Spielberg, with his schlocky, hack films, make so much
> >money?  
> 
> Without answering on a point by point basis, the reason Spielberg makes a lot
> of money is because he is an excellent director (in the technical sense; he 
> knows how to set up scenes, what shots to use, how to use tiny details to
> illuminate characters, etc.) who makes films about stories that appeal to a lot
> of people.  You found "ET" corny.  I didn't, though it certainly had that
> potential, and tens of millions of others didn't.  

I saw ET two times and liked it both times.  However, it wasn't the movie
that made me sick of ET, it was the merchandising that followed.  ET this,
ET that, everywhere in every store they had a big ET display (they even had
ET vitamins!)  yech!

Chris