Steven Spielberg He is known as the “King Midas” of cinema and once again he showed it with seven Oscar nominations for his most recent film. “The Fabelmans”Which is inspired by his childhood memories, but also a tribute to his parents and cinema, but as he himself said, it is not a hundred percent autobiographical.
The film addresses the story of a boy named Sammy Feibelman who, after discovering a family secret, finds the best way to express himself and make his mark in film work, always supported by his mother Mitzi and is encouraged, a pianist, despite her complicated relationship with her father Bert Fabelman, a computer engineer; But how much of it lines up with reality?
Although Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner did not attempt to create a faithful reflection of the childhood of the director, who first experimented as a screenwriter, they took elements that referred to his past, beginning with the fact that Spielberg’s parents, i.e. Leah Adler, was an accomplished pianist and Arnold Spielberg, an electrical engineer who participated in the development of computers, apart from the fact that both fictional and real The family practices Judaism.
Spielberg spent his childhood in New Jersey but moved to Arizona because of his father’s job, which also happens with the Feibelmans, but they migrate to California; The producers of “ET, the Extra-Terrestrial” (1983) do this only after divorcing Leah with her father.
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What is “The Fablemans” about?
In the film you can see young Sammy shooting home movies with an 8mm camera, the same thing happened with Steven Spielberg, when his biggest hobby since adolescence was to capture almost everything as a family on his camera. had to record material that was later borrowed. actors Gabrielle LaBelle, Paul Dano and Michelle Williams, who play him and his parents; So that they can study gestures, mannerisms and even manner of speaking to make their interpretation more natural.
But what most unites Steven Spielberg with Sammy Feibelman is his love and passion for the seventh art, something that has allowed him to become one of the most important filmmakers on the planet; The challenge of the story is fictional but it fulfills what the director was looking for, which was to talk about his family with all the love and respect he has for them, but without stopping to criticize it, because in the form of fiction In , his mother’s constant moving and personal crises take their toll on his emotions and on his way of seeing the world through the lens of a camera.
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