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Spielberg: War a wild ride.
(From Newsletter)
STEVEN Spielberg himself classifies War of the Worlds as OOa wild rideOO. The movie director even enlisted real US troops for some of the filming, in what might be classified as a crash fusion of disaster movie with sci-fi.
The acclaimed veteran director acknowledges that his new epic is really scary: OOThereOs parts of it that are amusing, parts of it that are just sheer terror, just embrace our deepest, deepest fears.
OItOs a very personal story, and these cataclysmic events are crashing down in front of and behind this kind of family story.O
In his portrayal of the holocaust-like world of destruction and death that he has conjured up, Spielberg explains: OOItOs an odyssey. This is really an odyssey. And itOs not one of my sweet, cuddly, benign, alien odysseys, itOs the first time IOve really jumped, with both eyes open and both feet directly in the centre of a science-fiction horror film.
OEver since I was a young fan of science fiction movies, IOve always been ...
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