Steven Spielberg and the cinematographers he works with need light to show audiences what they’re filming, yet there is a deeper significance at play with the award-winning director.
Light in a Spielberg movie can be a more subtle affair than it first appears, because it is hidden inside his subconscious. The roots of this were revealed in a fascinating anecdote from his boyhood. The tale has been told by Spielberg many times.
When he was a child, his father, Arnold, shook him out of his sleep and took him out for a drive into the darkness. In an episode that wouldn’t look out of place in one of his own films, the young Spielberg was full of trepidation.
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