Inside Steven Spielberg’s Head

In Steven Spielberg’s head, there is an electric train, a childhood wound, but also a red coat. The electric train was the director’s favorite toy when he was little. One day, his mother has the good idea to give him this advice: “We’re going to film everything with your father’s camera.” It was therefore by filming his train that the vocation of the most famous director in the world was born. A scene that we find elsewhere in The FabelmansSpielberg’s latest film, in theaters Wednesday, February 22.

Children lost in his films

Spielberg was this child passionate about cinema, hooked on his camera who, soon, will become his best friend. In Spielberg’s mind, there is also the divorce of his parents. Steven is 12 years old when his father and his mother separate. “A tragedy”, as Spielberg confided. A wound that he casually evokes in Indiana Jones. An adventurer, but not only. “Indiana Jones finds his father. There is a form of admiration and at the same time resentment because this father has, in a way, abandoned him for his work”explain Nicolas Schaller, film journalist, who also specifies that his films “are peopled with lost children”. Among these lost children, we find the young Elliot in AND the alien. Finally, the little girl’s red coat Schindler’s List is the only touch of color in this film about the Holocaust. The most committed film of his career.