Steven Spielberg honed his filmmaking skills while growing up in Phoenix. It's a story that we in Arizona should celebrate much more than we do.
, still commanding extraordinary deals.”The actor Richard Dreyfuss simply called him, “The greatest filmmaker of all time.”And yet Arizona scarcely knows his story or that his first great gusts of creative energy began here as child attending Ingleside Elementary School and later Arcadia High School.
Mesmerized by the cinema, Steven was drawn to one scene in particular that would later play an important part in Arizona history – the crash of the circus train. Spielberg has denied that he remade “Firelight” into his sci-fi classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, but the young people who worked with him on that first film would swear they instantly recognized scenes in the latter. McBride has called “Close Encounters” a “transmutation of ‘Firelight’.”
As this community continues through its formative years, as we continue to debate and try to determine our values, this authentic Arizona story can inform us where we came from and how we might move forward. Steven would later tell this story of the outsider through the metaphor of a space alien named E.T., who was rejected by earthlings and later phoned home.Slightly built and teased at school, young Stephen endured the taunts of school children who called him “Spiel-bug.” Some made fun of his Jewish faith and others just ignored him. But McBride described how Steve, the boy, used all of his creative wits to reshape his environment so that all the kids wanted to be in his movies.
In time, he would summon all of his creative genius and work ethic to again reshape his environment and place himself at the center of that world as one of the most powerful people in modern Hollywood.Convinced of the potential of this story, I decided to try to light a fire under it. I got a projector and went to many of the leaders of Arizona to make sure they know it. I told it to ASU President Michael Crow at a Phoenix Starbucks, and he immediately understood.
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