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I think the key to Steven Spielberg's success stems from his ability to craft movies which on the one hand are very entertaining with mass appeal yet on the other hand still contain more depth than just a regular popcorn flick. In this video I’ll break down three of his films which he produced at three increasing budget levels.
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0:00 Introduction
0:51 Duel
5:12 Sponsored Message
6:22 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
10:52 Saving Private Ryan
15:13 Conclusion
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Here are the budgets adjusted for inflation: Duel $2.9 Million Raiders Of The Lost Ark $58 Million Saving Private Ryan $114 Million If there are other directors you’d like to see featured please let me know below.
James Cameron at three different budget levels......
Kurosawa akira Ingmar bergman Andrei tarkovsky Ozu yasujiro
Darren Aronofsky, Sam Raimi, Rian Johnson, Robert Rodriguez, Taika Waititi, Guy Ritchie, Peter Jackson, John Carpenter, Kathryn Bigelow, George Miller, Richard Linklater, David Lynch, James Wan and Terry Gilliam.
Thanks for all the suggested directors. Hopefully I'll get around to making a video on some of them soon!
Denis Villeneuve
Spielberg knows how to utilize the camera to tell a visually rich compelling narrative or hires a cinematographer that does.
It's the former.
@@karlkarlos3545 Oh yes definitely.
@David Bowman its both he knows how to utilize the camera to tell a visually rich compelling narrative often by hiring those who can perfectly portrait what he wants to invision
the stories of how they made least budget films of all the great directors are the ones truly inspiring
Even the king made mistakes in the beginning or didn't communicate to his DP the need of an aggressive shot from the top of the rig even though he mounted a camera up there. Also motivating I guess.
Its not only the budget, the main thing is what he achieved out of the money spent. I think most other directors would have needed twice the funds to do what he did on screen with the money spent on his films.
i remember hearing that when saving private ryan first aired, they had to set up a hotline for veterans who suffered ptsd attacks after seeing the movie
"i wasnt in film school, so i just went to filming instead"
Imagine being the film school that rejected him.
I've always wondered what happens to good screenplays with crap production and vice versa. It takes the skill of someone like Spielberg to make something great because another director could have made those scripts junk or mediocre. But then I suppose, excellent directors are able to see the potential in a script and actual achieve it. Looks like emphasis on planning and storyboarding is essential.
THE LOST WORLD makes for an excellent comparison to JURASSIC PARK - a really mediocre script, completely different from the source material, with one of the world's greatest filmmakers trying to give it life. His directing remains excellent, but THE LOST WORLD feels bloated, empty, silly, pointless and lacks propulsiveness.
The fact that duel was his first movie and is very entertaining is very impressive
Fun fact: my grand aunt and uncle once told me a story they were shopping late at Puente Hills Mall in 1985 when they accidentally walked in on people in the middle of filming, the film crew asked if they wanted to stay and watch but they declined because it was starting to get late and they were tired. They didn’t know what they were filming until a couple of years ago over dinner when they were telling the story to my grandparents my parents and me, let’s just say I was disappointed that they didn’t stick around and watch an instant classic unfold.
What was the movie
@@Mr_Green52 Back to the Future.
I knew it was Back To The Future
I'd love to see budget break downs for how David Fincher shoots at different levels. Or the differences between how he used a budget to film his early music video/commercial work when he was first starting out vs. how he used bigger budgets once he became a major Hollywood director (i.e. Fight Club or Zodiac or Gone Girl) compared with how he now budgets and shoots his TV work (House of Cards or Mindhunter). He's always been regarded as such a technical wizard, it'd be interesting to know more about how he learned his craft/how he collaborates with his DPs and production designers as his career has progressed. I think both him and Spielberg are prodigies in their own ways, as they both started directing professionally in their early 20's, with Spielberg possessing a gift for transmitting feeling to the audience through making the camera an active participant in the storytelling while Fincher has always seemed to posses a level of technical precision unmatched by any other filmmaker of his generation...Anyway, this video was was great and I'm excited to see what you do next.
I dont know if this would be posdible, but i would be intrested in the cinematography of Alfred Hitchcock, due to his visual storytelling.
and David Lynch (Peter Demming on Cinematography) , if not done already on this channel
The lighting and color temperatures really come out in the HDR release that just came out. The coloring is absolutely fantastic.
I heard that after some movies that went overschedule and overbudget, Raiders was Speilberg's way of telling executives "See? I can make a movie on time and on budget!"
The campfire scene in Saving Private Ryan was filmed with a china ball but the flag wasn't used to cut the light off half of their faces, it was used to cut the light off the lower parts of their bodies. Since the china ball was down low it would be closer to that area of their bodies and would make their lower areas brighter then their faces and draw attention away from the expressions. To keep the focus of the scene on the character's faces he cut the light in that way. The shadow on the faces was created by moving the light source to one side of the actors.
Incredible that he managed to make a masterpiece like Saving Private Ryan on "only" 70 million ... he truly is a wizard
I saw Duel when it first aired when I was a teen and it was the first time I noticed that there was something more to filmmaking then just pointing a camera. I was memorized and it's one of my favorite movie experiences. I liked how at the end the crashed truck was filmed like it was a dying beast. And the soundtrack!
"mesmerized". :D
Possibly could do Denis villeneuve next: Polytechnique, Sicario and Blade runner 2049.
Thanks Spielberg for giving me the best childhood with your Jurassic Park, it'll be always my favorite movie of all generation.
Jaws for me. Saw it at the cinema age 5 and nothing has matched it since.
Was unknowingly waiting for this!
Thanks for watching as always.
Love this KZhead series. Very informative and entertaining. I've always been impressed how well Raiders Of The Lost Ark has held up all these years on such a modest budget for the time. Please continue making videos in this series. Future considerations: James Cameron, Villeneuve, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann.
He never needed a filming school, he is more than qualified to start his own course.
Duel was a pretty good movie. In some ways I liked it more than his later movies.
another masterpiece. Thank you so much from italy
And now i am eager ti experience his version of West side story
Plz make a video on james cameron on 3 different budget level
Thanks for the suggestion.
Great and interesting information. I do think it could be said a lot about Spielberg's sound mixing that is a key part from he's narrative. Great video! Thanks for shearing your passion with us watchers!
The world wouldn't be the same without Spielberg's films, thanks for the analysis.
Very much the best movie contents i have seen so far is your channel. Love your videos keep it up! :)
Well. If you see the biography documentary of Spielberg, the other films were above budget. Shark was almost twice the days and budget because of trying to film in the real sea. He later use that knowledge for future films.
It’s absolutely fascinating to see how Spielberg came into film production via a TV background and the impact it had on him as a director. I guess the film school that knocked him back will never know his genius and did him a huge favour! Great vid!
Ambition beats academics every damn day of the week
One of my favorite directors, this was great! Thanks so much!
This was fantastic. It's very interesting to know more about shooting with different budgets
that was a very well done video. Thank you for that.
Incredible video... well done!!!
Loved this one, great job!
fantastic video. i love spielberg style, he makes art of the blockbusters. the way he uses the camera and the editing of it can make pure magic. i woul dlove to see this for Denis Villenueve, Edgar Wright, David Fincher, Stanley Kubirck.
I discovered your channel in the past month, it's really really interesting. And there's subtitles ! Big fan !
Glad you like the content! Thanks for the support.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably the best movie ever made.
genuinely, it isn't my favourite of all time but I cannot dispute this statement
False, the ghost busters reboot was the best movie of all time no doubt.
@@michaelscarn5625 true true
The best action/adventure movie for sure
It's not even the best Spielberg film. Jaws is.
I remember watching dual on at 15 late at night on a local affiliate channel at 12am and it made me want to be a filmmaker. That was in 2008
I think it's fair to state that Saving Private Ryan made the FPS FOV 60-70 for a long while, heck, even today. "Cinematic".
I always love these videos
Your channel is simply amazing.
could you make a totally beginner video on the practical knowledge needed to make a movie, like filter, camera angles, composition etc. just the basics
You shoud check out the guides from studio binder, they're preatty good!
Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@InDepthCine how to use black flags to cut the light and creating various type of shadows... also Filters on lights camera, clothes to reflect bounce diffuse with its various effects.
@Konkopt Hey :) I know this was a couple of weeks ago, but you should check out the youtubers DSLR Guide, and D4Darius-- those 2 channels have honest-to-god been my Film School (coming from an acting background, and wanting to jump into filmmaking). They go over EVERYTHING from the ground-up, and emphasise learning all the basics: composition, framing, lighting, and understanding of lenses, all with BASIC cameras and equipment, and show if you are dedicated to the craft, you can get amazing, cinematic results. Good luck out there!
In case anyone is wondering Duel was shot in 1971 and the $5K Director's fee for inflation would be $33K and the $450K would be almost $3 million.
Duel is an amazing film. But I think it's the editing that truly makes it that way.... Wever turned out to be a good choice as he said so much without using his words.
I look forward to your video on Kubrick
Duel is such a great movie. Realy unbelievable what Spielberg did there despite of the limited resources he had
Dennis Weaver helped "sell it" a little bit too,...dont you think?
@@TheSighphiguy Of course. He acted very good. He was perfect to represent an ordinary salesman on his way to work but at the same time expressioned all this fear and hopelessness. Spielberg wanted directly to have Dennis Weaver play the role even if he was only the 3rd choice of the production.
In the cinematic release apparently you can briefly see spielburg in the back seat of the car (giving direction to the actor I presume). It's a great film, gives inspiration in terms of budget to aspiring film makers.
Fantastic job !
Excellent video
crew breakdown next weeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk I love this btw
this is exactly what I have been waiting for - stephen a smith
What a legend of film making. He did soo well in the past.. and now ...ehhh...
Stellar diagnosis again.
Love these
Thinking I might want to be a director, then realising I have neither the skill, talent or knowledge for such a task
this is an amazing series
Duel is my favourite film. Perfect little film
Great video
Duel is such an underated movie.
Could I ask, if in a fight scene where’s there’s weapons or armour or whatever. How does the cinematographer work with the armourer or martial arts expert or weapon smith to figure out light reflections from armour or sword don’t show up in camera lens or how does say do you figure out how to shoot at what angle to show the gun or laser weapon hit the targets?
4:54 you see part of the camera rig on the passenger side window with a cable going to the floor
Is there anyway you can dive into more budget breakdowns of Cassavetes, Safdie Brothers, Spike Jonze and early Brian DePalma?
How Edgar Wright shoot films by 3 budget levels ???!
A Fistful of Fingers, Shaun of the Dead & Baby Driver?
Yes, that would be perfect.
@@InDepthCine please
@@InDepthCine I would love to see that! It's fascinating to watch directors' early and incredibly low-budget shorts like A Fistful of Fingers or Bottle Rocket with the context of their later work, and analyze what components make them unique across different levels of adversity and assistance. Your particular insight and style would be amazingly helpful to a lot of us, I think. And Wright's style and attention to detail are such fun to break down.
image shaker 13:30 blew my mind
Sir make video on type of film development or processing techniques
"proper planning prevents poor performance"... storyboarding and shot lists are planning. the more focused and clearer the vision, the better the result. cheers!
I would argue budget has a lot less to do with him developing as an experienced director used to dealing with studios, who became increasingly good at haggling and negotiating prices for his films. Mainly due to inflation. The 20 million that went in to raiders would have been equivalent to over 40 million when saving private Ryan came out in 1998 on a 70 million dollar budget. still a difference of 30-25 mill, but along with rising studio costs, modern logistics, and more expenses coming from the emerging post production of CGI that while sparing, would have added to the budget of the film in ways you wouldn't see on set.
4:25 As soon as I heard you say "mil" I knew where you were from
"his cheapest feature film used five cameras!" you see, thats what aint cheap about it
under a million for a feature is insanely cheap. camera gear is almost always rental equipment in this situation
@@BrettBaker0 don't think these budgets are adjusted for inflation.
I've recently just got two cameras. I had a choice, sell my camera and upgrade to a better one or buy a second camera identical to the one I already had. The truth of the matter is if I'd have upgraded I would have had to put extra money ontop and still wouldn't have got a better camera that anyone watching my stuff would appreciate. But a second camera would change the way I shoot and speed the whole thing up. And it did. One of my better decisions. I'd like four total.
Never been this early before!
The background music is a bit intrusive (maybe it's my cheap headphones), otherwise great work as usual!
Can you make a video about John Singelton?
Please make a similar Video on stanley kubrick
Good Essay!
Brilliant
duel is so awesome
can you do for james cameroon, george Lucas, wes anderson, alejandro innaritu
Do Stanley Kubrick next!
Yessssss
Which films? There are so many great ones to choose from. The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001?
@@InDepthCine you could start with his first film Fear and Desire then 2001 and then his final movie Eyes Wide Shut. Or something like that. They all had three different types of budgets
Man I need to watch saving private ryan again
nice video Mate. may I ask where are you from i cant place your accent
I'll have to give Saving Private Ryan another watch, I only watched it in an education context in High School.
Can you do one of these on Guillermo Del Toro please
im pretty sure duel is on KZhead
How Michael Bay shoots a film at 3 different budget level. In Depth Cine: He just adds explosion
$20 in 1981 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $59.23 today, an increase of $39.23 over 40 years. (The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.75%, (or 2.8%,) per year between 1981 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 196.14%. Although, according to some calculations, others put $20.00 in 1981 as being more equal to $60.36 in 2021. With annual inflation over this period being 2.80%.) Either way, Raiders of the Lost Ark is much closer to the Saving Private Ryan budget level, when adjusted for inflation. (Meaning it's not quite accurate to suggest some vast difference between the two productions, which are much more comparable than not as existing within the same valuation range, when all is considered.) (I'm just sayin' 🤜 💥 🤛) #ConstructiveCriticism #DontShootTheMessenger
watched duel in my university film course...
Duel is underrated
Spielburg seems to really rely on his DP to light scenes in a way that enhances the storytelling.
that is the job of the dp..
@@BrettBaker0 What I meant was instead of Spielberg saying, "I'm going for ___ mood. Please light the scene like ______." It seems like he listens to his DP's input.
What was the budget for Jaws?
Raiders of the Lost Ark would cost 200 million dollars today.
And still somehow be vastly inferior to the original.
@@420haxx ok
Jaws still remains his finest work.
Imagine if they recycled all the Tungsten Film stock from 1900 to 1980, how much that would be worth.
The very modest budget of 400k dollars indeed
Saving Privet Ryan is so fucking good and then he made Band of Brothers like the next year. i make it my mission to watch it once every year.
I've just finished a 20th anniversary rewatch of Band of Brothers. I saw each episode on the same day and month as the original airing on US TV
Did anyone else hear a Call of Duty hit marker sound throughout the video?
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I heard that Spielberg made everybody attend the bootcamp except for tom hanks, so that they would develop genuine resentment for him, which would benefit the movie
You might have heard that wrong. I’m pretty sure he made everyone but Matt Damon attend bootcamp so that during the movie they’d already have some natural hatred towards Damon’s character.
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