Movie Brats! (New Hollywood)

(Left to Right: Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Francis Coppola)

Early 1970’s, generation of young directors, sometimes called the movie brats made some successful films of all time. They are Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg.

There are two kinds of directors: those who have the public in mind when they conceive and make their films, and those who don’t consider the public at all.

Francis Ford Coppola is the director of the award-winning film The Godfather who brought him several nominations and awards as well. According to Gary Kurtz, a producer of films, movies that Coppola produced was always aired no matter what it was all about, as long as it was long enough. Being said like that, I consider Coppola as a director who doesn't consider public in making films.

George Lucas is the creator of the blockbuster hit Star Wars. He mentioned in the documentary film of the film school generation that he once took the opportunity of a lifetime in making the THX 1138 without even considering if he’s career may be destroyed, which puts him on the idea of being a director who doesn’t consider the public at all. But according to Jonathan Taplin, a film producer, George Lucas came from a Middle American point-of-view which wanted to make movies that would move everybody, which also puts him on the contradicting type of director who considers the public in making films.

Steven Spielberg’s films include the three highest-grossing film made at the time – Jaws (1975), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993). Like George Lucas, Jonathan Taplin considers Spielberg as a director who wanted to make movies that would move everybody, which is I guess obvious already because he owns those three highest-grossing films, so no doubt he makes films that considers the public.

Those three directors were the only emphasized filmmakers that may belong to any of the two kinds of directors.

In my own point of view, Martin Scorsese is a director who considers the public because he made films that reflects some Hollywood typical arrogance. Brian De Palma is known for his suspense and crime thriller films, which I consider a director who considers public as well because he makes films that everybody would get their emotions attached to the film.

- ClarissaAlimot