My guess is he sees it as a blind ripoff of THE DRIVER, not knowing it's a loving homage to THE DRIVER.
My guess is he sees it as a blind ripoff of THE DRIVER, not knowing it's a loving homage to THE DRIVER.
Really glad the article mentioned the perspective gaffe in the first big reveal of the dinosaurs. It's one of Spielberg's favorite gimmicks to sidestep the physical logic of a scene with a cheat shot to get the audience effect he wants. It drives me crazy. There's a scene in Empire of the Sun, for example, where…
I would bet all $27 of my life savings that the scene was written by Sorkin. It's built around a telltale Sorkian monologue where a character spells out in literal, obnoxiously expository detail what he or she is thinking. The most famous scene in A FEW GOOD MEN is another example.