Are ALL Steven Spielberg Movies Jewish? | Unpacked
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Legendary movie director Steven Spielberg has never been shy about exploring Jewish themes in his movies, like “An American Tail”, “Schindler’s List”, “Munich”, and “The Fablemans”. However, it is little known that even his movies that are not explicitly about Jews, like “Jaws”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, and “ET”, also touch on themes of Jewish identity.
00:00 Intro
00:54 Spielberg's childhood Jewish identity
02:38 Jewish themes in "Jaws"
05:38 Jewish themes in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
06:41 Jewish themes in "E.T."
07:35 Jewish assimilation "An American Tail"
08:51 Rejecting Judaism in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
09:15: Turning point in Spielberg Jewish journey
09:37 Spielberg's connection to the Holocaust in "Schindler's List"
11:33 Spielberg's relationship with Israel in "Munich"
12:36 Spielberg's personal Jewish identity "The Fablemans"
13:21 Continual exploration of identity is the secret sauce
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Executive Producer:
- Barry Skolnick
Co-Executive Producer:
- Shmuel Katz
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Translation credits:
Portuguese: Saymon Pires, www.livrariasafra.com.br, @safralivraria
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Your comment on debate in Judaism is so important. The Talmud includes the arguments of the most unpopular ideas as well as those highly respected, and that is wonderful. It might not change anyone's opinion, but the debate is so important. 'Don't keep quiet' seems to be one of our greatest attributes.
I, in my entire life, have never seen a more comprehensive film about Steven Speilberg's influences. Thank you for explaining the reasoning and the truth to his actions. And this is why, Steven Spielberg, is the best Jewish film director and maybe overall! Thank you UnPacked!
Jaws is in my top five favorite movies of all times. I love Steven Spielberg’s movies. I’m glad he got connected with his Jewishness and made ‘Schindler’s List’ which is in my top 10 most favorite movies. I applaud him for making The Shoah Foundation. He is brilliant.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos, Unpacked. Thank you for creating them!
Now we need Ofra Haza Biographical film.
His first movie, "Duel" is less well known, (but very good). The theme could be summarised as "the implacable, anonymous pursuer". An innocent motorist is threatened by a semi-trailer, which keeps manoeuvring with the obvious intention of killing him. We only ever see the semi driver's boots, and the intention seems more inherent in the truck. A spot of academic word-spinning could generate several narratives from that.
That flick used to spook me when I was a kid as we had the same car as Dennis
What a great video! My master thesis in history was about jewish identity in American films. Spielberg was not part of the research (too obvious), but a lot of what you say is very much true for other jewish American directors too. Coming to terms with generational trauma and your own identity is all part of making art.
Real question - What is bistory? Or was that a typo?
@@carenlettofsky3045😂typo, I ment history
The greatest director/producer to ever live. Also, watch "Minority Report", a true insight into a secret hidden world. This is more than just fiction.
For every 2 Jews, there are 3 opinions. LOL! I LOVE this about our culture. Am Yisrael Chai!
Searching about Steven Spielberg and anti-Semitism I came across this video, cleverly done, and it made me end up thrilled. Thank you!
The movies symbolize the things the American Jew went through and the sense of a perceived need to assimilate or melt with the gentile world for survival. They also remind us that in reality, there is more power and respect in embracing our individuality, and standing for ourselves with love for our own and pride in our Jewishness.
There's nothing wrong being Jewish..
I was born in a country where i belonged to a sub-minority.
I know how it feels, i know what we have to overcome.
And we can do it with grace, talking endlessly with the other side, searching for our azimute..
But it's all wrong, when you support this Israel Savagery..
That´s not human, not carefull, not wise..
Israel, right now, can be compared to a 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' or Saramago's book 'Blindness'...
How a civilized country, full of intelligent people, falls into darkness...
and nobody seems capable to avoid it...
@violoncelo1000 Taking a pacifist approach towards adversaries that desire our demise is not only not a Jewish concept, it is begging for an end. The world deeply has sympathy for us when we are dying but we lose the approval of the non-Jew when we immediately respect ourselves by not taking the abuse and refusing to lay down. It is better to have self-respect and live than to be a doormat to the gentile and be a loved little obedient lemming to the gentile.
The Sephardis are turning on the Ashkenazis. Yaweh bless Netanyahu!@@violoncelo1000
I should of known when you guys asked a question about his movies the other day that this was coming but great video tho fifle America tail and fifle goes west was my favourite movies growing up I never knew the back story tho you guys are still crushing it with these videos great work guys
I think Spielberg now needs to do a movie that can have undertones of teaching kids of this generation that hate of Jews and hate of anyone is horrible and how we need to live in peace and harmony in this world. My mother, b 1921 Strasbourg barely escaped France, walking on foot across the Pyrenees Mt into Spain with a guide to run from the Nazis. My youngest son in high school experienced antisemitism with bodily injury in hate crime. We must teach
Brilliant, deep and entertaining.
As a Christian myself, I have never understood antisemitic libel that Jews invented Communism or Jews are Communists. Communism is an atheistic ideology, & Jews are a religious group (an ethnographic-religious group, yes; but a religious group, all the same). Therefore, creating an atheistic political ideology would be a self-defeating purpose.
I very honestly had a slightly similar experience as a child(1:20). I was perhaps 8 years old, and my school had a "field trip" to a nearby nursing home and we just chilled with them a bit, sang some music and talked to them. I think atleast one or 2 of them thought I was their grandkid lol.
I saw a few of those tattoos on some of the peoples' arms. I did not fully understand what that meant at the time. Same idea: "they were just some chill af old people with numbers on their arms".
As to your point: any system of blind belief, be it rooted in atheism or theism is susceptible to the same problems of human nature that have existed for 200,000+ years. Now someone please stop me before I start rambling about Friedrich Nietzsche.
@@py_a_thon I used to volunteer at a Jewish nursing home too, & likewise, saw so many residences of said nursing home with the tattooed numbers on their forearms.
Many Jews are communists but there’s ALSO MANY Jews who are NOT communists
You think Jews actually care about religion, maybe go pick up a bible and read how the Israelites disobeyed God habitually from the very beginning with them worshipping a golden calf mere minutes after God split the Red Sea for them. Karl Marx was a Jew, Lenin and Trotsky and the Bolsheviks were Jews - they invented Communism it’s a fact not some conspiracy theory
I think from a. More cynical viewpoint, Spielberg is very good at creating wholesome entertainment family movies that don’t exactly have a “controversial” ring to it or that deviate too far from mainstream movies. They are safe and nostalgic with more or less the same themes he’s. Even doing for his whole career. Men mostly tske up the screen time, something about fathers, a lack of political critique, a love for nostalgia, and standard Hollywood biographies. . Like I don’t see him making a Tarantino movie anymore. I don’t see him doing a Francis ford Coppola experiment movies.
Ready player one is indicative of where Spielberg is at this point; never deviating away from his expected storytelling ideas-nostalgia, begin g to rely on special effects over actual effects, a male hero. . I know someone will say “Schindler’s list” as a controversial film (and it is to an extent) but many critics point out some of the issues with that film. It’s not even the best Holocaust film (god it feels weird saying that). I mean have you not seen COME AND SEE?
A good video that goes over the evolution of Indiana jones (one of the great adventure stories ever), talked on how the series progressed it became “cleaner,” there was less of that edge from the first two. That’s because temple of doom scarred Spielberg so much to not go all out on gore, something a more ambitious director would never do.
So the success comes down to making films that are great and entertaining for the masses. But you can argue that they are jsut that. Easy money making products that give you your moneys worth and that’s that.
What about the color purple?
ET was really a golem
An American Tail now free on RUclips
Okay. But, it should also be noted that the words "Hindu," or "Hinduism," do not appear in 'Temple Of Doom,' and/or 'Christians,' & 'Christianity' do not appear in 'The Last Crusade' either.
I've seen some stretches in my life, but this video essay takes the cake - a cake made out of taffy. 😅
Also, while I'm religiously agnostic, ET has more in common w/Christianity than Judaism. Sure, Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, but he is the outsider, is persecuted, dies & ressurrects before saying good-byr to his friends & ascends to heaven in a spaceship. That's the story of Jesus in the New Testament.
He had PLENTY of representation growing up! He just needed to read the Comic Books. Superman and many others were made by Jews and have Jewish themes.
Yeah, plus the three stooges
An exceptional observatory piece regarding the motivations and articulations of one of America's and Judaism's foremost movie makers.
Your poignant conclusion, however, is a master of Jewish encapsulation - that a people's history and journey is not a settled matter, but a continuing saga of constant learning, yearning and (sometimes) argumentative discussions regarding the meaning of our 3,000 year old presence on the planet!
The staircase scene in Munich always comes to my mind when some news story pops up regarding the Israel/Palestinian conflict.
what about Minority Report? Is there a jewish story there too?
8:10 Is this a Maus reference I see? In the book, Jews are also portrayed as mice and the nazis as cats, although I don’t know whether the book came before or after the movie. 🐀🐱✡️❤️🩹
Brilliant
these are all reflections in the human experience in cultures all over the world,
yes all over the world people have this in common. it about storytelling. an artist will have their influence in their work, and life also imitates art.
I grew up in an area with a lot of Jews. When I heard my moms half brother said both his parents family’s assassinated to Christianity from Judaism. A lot of my Jewish friends always said I had Jewish blood turns out they were right. I am Catholic my dads family is. I am very proud of all my ancestors, and the fights they had to go through for my life now.
Assassinated?
Dear Host, To you, "An American Tail" is about assimilation and denying one's Jewishness, but that is not how "An American Tail" was for me! In fact, I'd agrue "An American Tail" was about in fact the opposite of assimilation and denying one's Jewishness! Cause for me, "An American Tail" which is Don Bluth film, was about finding family, community and being proud of one's Jewishness! In a world of mostly Jewish stories being about The Holocaust, "An American Tail" is one of those Jewish stories that focuses on the telling of The Cossacks which is what my family survived and "An American Tail" gives those of us who aren't Holocaust Descentants representation in the Jewish Story! For me, "An American Tail" was so much more than a childhood movie. For me Fievel was so much more than just a Jewish Mouse 🐁 It was a movie that was a telling of my family, of their struggles, and their preserverance, and Fievel, well, he was my friend, and a part of me saw myself in Fievel, but mostly Fievel was someone that I felt could understand me both as a Jew living in the U.S and as a kid feeling alone and isolated, Fievel was everything that I wanted, that I'd hope to be! Not only that, he had a cat as his best friend and my only friend as a young child was a cat! Even to this day, I cling onto my Fievel Plush when I feel sad alone, or even scared, because Fievel was me as a kid and he is the only one that calm my inner child! So, again, dear Host, I'd argue that "An American Tail" was about assimilation and shamefulness cause that is not how it was for me!!
I don't think I could really ever explain to you here in the comment section what "An American Tail" means to me or the feeling that I have for the movie, all I can say is that "An American Tail" is my favorite Childhood Movie and Fievel is my best friend!
Or Jews who will admit to it. Kirk Douglas was originally Issur Danielovitch. John Garfield was originally Julius Garfinkel.
Why haven't we heard from you Steven Spielberg
Amen. To this message.
Interestingly, the Matt Hooper in Peter Benchley's Jaws novel, was an uppity Ivy League type, who had an affair with Brody's wife and met demise by the shark. Almost the polar opposite of how he was presented in the Jaws movie.
Yeah well in my book he is an awesome person and a director of school of life. Thank You.
I'm so glad that when I saw Jaws, at age 9 or so in a big theater, I associated the shark with ---as a metaphor--a SHARK! That movie made me too scared to get out of bed in the middle of the night because of anything lurking in the dark (no other move has ever done that). I still think of that movie as being representative of--great White Sharks who do eat people (i.e. in Australia). If I want to see a movie representing Nazis or white supremacists, I will watch ANIMAL FARM and observe the pigs. I would take the horse that got betrayed as being the Jews (the smart, reasonable animals trying to have a decent grounded society but who got sold to a glue factory by the pigs who gobbled as much as they could, thusly turning into the pig monster human beings who then turned into Nazis. Actually, Nazis attribute Sharks to one of their predator symbols, in addition to Lions. Poor, misrepresented animals. THey are just pigs after all. Maybe Spielberg will one day make a movie about Nazis as the symbolic representation that they truly are: pigs.
Dude is flashing the masonic hand sign in ever video and normies be like
steve is a genius !😊😊😊
A bit of a stretch in some parts, certainly it wouldn't get a pass from my criticism profs. But - you had less than 15 minutes to make your case.
Plz guys do one on Arnold Rothstein and the 1919 world series that would be a great video
The shark is Jewish oh dear, the shark can’t represent an imaginary threat when it’s actively killing people
Here a wee poem:
PISS IN THE BED
FIRST WARM,
THEN COLD,
H O L D ! ! !
Ashkenazi screenwriters do like to self-insert themselves as aliens, especially technologically advanced aliens, either to lead or destroy humans. Same for Slasher films. The Ashkenazi screenwriters get a little powertrip over depicting blonde women getting brutally killed by the outsider monster/killer. They have contempt for the white American culture they live in and you can see it in most films.
Many iconic films are celebrating triumphs over the American populations, themes creatively depicted.
Fun, but a little over the top......
What is ET short for? He has little legs.
I don't even think Schindler's is Jewish.
He was not. He is honored at Yad Vashem as a righteous gentile.
Good shabbos. The Sephardis are finally turning on the Askenazis. The temple is coming brother!@@mapleva
@@mapleva I meant the movie of course. It isn't a "Jewish" movie. I don't think being about the holocaust or about a gentile saving jews makes it a Jewish movie, especially considering the very unflattering depiction of Jews in the movie.
Are you serious right now? Do all you people think about is trying to fit Jews into every single aspect of reality? It's a horror movie about a shark which kills people, because many reports of sharks killing humans have been reported, now stop overreaching and over analyzing a movie and making everything about yourselves.
It's got a double meaning. It's also about jews ( the shark) moving into a gentile island . Jaws- jews.
This old Jewish guy thinks this video is a bridge too far. Sorry...I'm not buying this.
First one is a reach imo
This has go to be the most ridiculous and offensive video on RUclips . What is wrong with you?
Curious why you think that?
This channel has become ridiculous. Clearly running out of ideas for content.
then stop watching tf??
This was great content for me, if you don’t like it, don’t watch h
don't tell me what to do @@Nitzpitz
I kinda agree with you. Are they going to do presentations of other P. J. Library books? If so, pick better ones.
I suppose I just find the content silly and elementary. I much prefer listening to Rabbis concerning more intellectual, mature topics. I'm sure Jewish children appreciate the channel (and non-jews) @@padillas4357
I am a little concerned when you say Spielberg was rooting for the shark? 🤔🫣
Makes me wonder what Jews are really thinking?
2 jews 3 opinions. U want to learn what jews think? talk to us