Steven Spielberg

• It’s also the final film for its star, Michael Caine, as he has recently announced his retirement.
• In doing so, it marks itself as a British answer to Saving Private Ryan (1998).

Troubled homecomings

• From the troubled homecoming of Homer’s Odysseus to the spate of Hollywood films produced in the 1970s and 1980s focused on the angry and alienated Vietnam veteran such as The Deer Hunter (1978) and Apocalypse Now (1979), the traumatised ex-soldier has long been a figure of cultural interest.
• This has especially been the case in the British film industry over the last 30 years.
• Or, more recent productions focused on returning soldiers, such as Outlaw (2007), The Veteran (2011) and, of course, Harry Brown (2009).

D-Day on film

• In the modern era, however, the D-Day film of most renown is undoubtedly Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998), which starred Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.
• Intended as a homage to the “greatest generation”, the film begins with an old soldier (the titular Private Ryan) searching the graves in the vast American military cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy.
• This was the scene of some of the deadliest fighting on June 6 1944.
• Whether or not Parker’s film goes on to have the same cultural impact as Spielberg’s award-winning production remains to be seen.

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Sam Edwards has previously received funding from the ESRC, the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the US Army Military History Institute, and the US Naval War College. Sam is a Trustee of Sulgrave Manor (Northamptonshire) and of The American Library (Norwich).

• 1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name.
• Jurassic Park originated in 1983 as a screenplay by Michael Crichton, whose previous foray into film as writer and director of Westworld (1973) featured an immersive amusement park where androids malfunctioned and caused havoc.
• But his dinosaur-themed story first found publication as the novel Jurassic Park, which was released in 1990 and became a bestseller.
• Of these methods, a combination of stop-motion animation for long shots and animatronic puppets for close ups were initially chosen by Spielberg for Jurassic Park.

CGI and animation

• Dennis Muren from the visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), provided an alternative approach by using CGI modelling and animation.
• Off the back of pioneering CGI work in The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Muren and his team produced a test sequence of skeletal dinosaurs.
• Jurassic Park features 15 minutes of on-screen dinosaurs, of which approximately nine minutes feature Stan Winston’s animatronics and six minutes of ILM’s CGI animation.
• Although the CGI sections are relatively short, they have a huge impact on the overall storytelling, not to mention the believability that the event is actually happening in front of us.

Impact

• It also presented the perfect opportunity to develop and showcase the latest advances in CGI.
• Jurassic Park inspired a number of similarly themed movies such as Disney’s Dinosaur (2000) and the award-winning BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999).
• But more than that, it helped bring about a revolution in the use of CGI in filmmaking.

• Award-winning independent filmmaker, Darlene Lieblich Tipton , is relying on this code of conduct in her effort to have all state statutes of limitations on sex abuse be repealed or modified to allow sexually abused Boy Scouts to receive justice under the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• Over the 111 years that the Boy Scouts has operated it has been estimated that between 100,000 and 240,000 sexually abused Boy Scouts have died prior to the BSA bankruptcy, taking their guilt and shame to their graves after suffering in silence their entire lives.
• The repeal of all statute of limitations is the right thing to dofor abused Scouts.
• It is time for ALL Statutes of Limitations on sex abuse across America be repealed or allow a "Look Back" open window!

• Mathew S. Rosengart, a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP's Los Angeles office, was named to Los Angeles Business Journal's 2022 "LA500" list in the Media & Entertainment category.
• LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Mathew S. Rosengart , a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP's Los Angeles office , was named to Los Angeles Business Journal's 2022 "LA500" list in the Media & Entertainment category.
• The seventh annual list honors visionary leaders for their significant achievements and impact on the Los Angeles community.
• About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2400 attorneys in 43 locations in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.