I wanted to watch this movie back in November but I didn’t have the time to do so.
Nevertheless, this movie was another highly anticipated movie for me or this year!
This movie starrs Michelle Williams (“Venom:Let There Be Carnage”), The Riddler, Paul Dano, thee Seth Rogen, just to name a few.
This movie was directed and written by thee legend Steven Spielberg.
This movie was released on November 22nd 2022. It debuted at the “Toronto International Film Festival” and “Rome Film Festival”.
This movie is a Drama and was rated PG-13 for language, thematic elements, violence and drug use.
Onto the premise: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
There is something very pompous about Steven Spielberg making a fictional movie about his real life. We know from the jump Sammy Fabelman is Spielberg cause from the jump its all about Sammy making films.
It’s a great movie for artist because it’s all about the love of the art and your wiliness to sacrifice for that art. It’s also for those who are stuck or feel stuck because they feel unable to truly express themselves.
A fantastic coming of Age story about a man who could not do anything else but follow his dreams.
It makes you wonder wether Spielberg’s upbringing was that interesting or is Spielberg soooo good at telling a story that he could make anyone’s life look interesting? A little bit of both.
Some of the characters seem sketchily drawn, particularly the sisters, but that serves to emphasize Miss Williams and Paul Dano as the Steven Spielberg character.
This movie was a roller coaster ride of emotions with beautiful sequences filled with glitz and glamor.
Did you know? The film’s development goes back to 1999, when Steven Spielberg considered directing a film about his childhood for some time, with its initial incarnation being titled “I’ll Be Home”. It would have been directed from a screenplay written by his sister Anne Spielberg (who inspired the character of Reggie Fabelman in this film).
Seth Rogen told reporters that Steven Spielberg often became emotional on the set during production. “It was a very emotional experience. He was crying a lot on set,” he said. “It’s very directly based on his life and pretty much everything that happens in the movie is something that happened to him. As we were shooting, I’d be like, ‘Did this happen in real life?’ and the answer was ‘yes’ a hundred percent of the time.”
David Lynch requested that he be given his costume as John Ford a week before filming his scene to break it in.
Steven Spielberg claimed that although he and Tony Kushner had discussed the idea of the movie for years, it was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that he decided to write the screenplay with Kushner from scratch while his schedule was clear. The two of them wrote the script from their homes during lockdown and finished it in two months.
For the scenes of Sammy filming his own 8mm films, Steven Spielberg decided to have the character re-create the exact ones he made during his childhood, and worked with cinematographer Janusz Kaminski to ensure that they were portrayed as accurately as possible, but with improvements in the camera angles. A few of the films portrayed in this film include the Western short film that he made with his fellow Boy Scout friends in order to earn the photography merit badge, the war short film Escape to Nowhere (1961), in which he used his school bully by casting him in the lead role in an effort to face his fears, and Spielberg’s re-creation of the train wreck scene from Cecil B. DeMille’s Die größte Schau der Welt (1952).
Spielberg remarked “It was joyful being able to recreate those films. … I shot a lot of films when I was a kid on 8mm. It was unique in those days. Not a lot of people were going out and shooting in 8mm. It was physical; it was a craft. You had to sit there with a…splicer, and then you had to scrape the emulsion off the film in order to get a seal so when you put glue on it, you literally glued the film together. And I must say, I miss it.”
Honestly “The Fabelmans” is very worthy of Oscar nominations the acting throughout was one of the best ever!
The family dynamic was so sweet and I wish could be a filmmaker or work on movies in some aspect like Sam’s character which I’m pretty sure was based on Steven Spielbergs life.
I absolutely loved everything about the movie only hard thing is the length even that is worth it.
Packed with great emotions, how to make movies, tender moments, perfect humor, cinematic scenery, and brilliant acted scenes that electrified me!
I’m proud of Seth Rogen being involved in serious roles where as the bulk of his roles were raunchy or less serious. All around wonderful film for anyone to enjoy.
This movie was worth the wait and I can’t wait to see it get an Oscar nomination in January of 2023! This movie was definitely “worth a watch”!
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