Steven Spielberg, without doubt one of the most influential filmmakers of Hollywood ever, has declared that he is moving on from the action genre and switching to more serious themes.
While the hard core movie buff would relish the thought of the award-winning filmmaker changing tack, succeeding generations may have to go back to his classics to see the best of action, as in big-budget science fiction adventures like Jurassic Park, Jaws and the Indiana Jones trilogy, all splendid archetypal blockbusters with which he captured the imagination of the young.
Having made movies in many genres, the talented “Mr American Film” should be able to fascinate cineastes in the future with a serious genre from which came Schindler’s List and his latest, Lincoln, which he described as a pared-down biopic without big action sequences. Of course, his next project, an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, should take us perhaps one last time to the action genre that made him a universal name.
It’s not often that big-budget blockbuster-making directors are equally felicitous in making critically acclaimed movies. In Spielberg, we have the very rare combination of art and craft being able to visualise across all genres. In fact, his directing Oscars for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan came when he tackled sensitive subjects like the Holocaust, the slave trade, war and terrorism. An estimated wealth of $3.2 billion makes him one of the richest movie moguls whose creativity is certain to bring forth many more great films.