lolaespino3ºb: Steven Spielberg

sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2008

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati (December 18, 1946). He's an American film director, sreenwriter and producer. Steven's films have touched on many themes, he has made films adventure, science fiction and for children too. In later years his movies began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.
Steven Spielberg made many films, for example the best known: Poltergeist, Los Picapiedras, Casper, Los Hombres de negro...Indiada Jones ( the four ) and Shrek. And many more. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for 1993 "La lista de Schindler". This made the movie thinking in the World War ll, because his mother was in that war. Also he won in 1998, "Salvar al soldado Ryan".
He's the son of Jewish parents Leah Adler, a restaurateur and concert pianist, and Arnold Spielberg, a computer engineer. Spielberg grew in Haddonfiel (Nueva Jersey) and Scottsdale (Arizona). He studied the California States University, but he leaved to go the TV. Later he made his first film, "The last gun".

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lolaespino dijo...: The past of "leave" is "left". On the other hand, you could have looked for the original names of the films.; 13 de diciembre de 2008, 17:55

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. Boyne is the author of 6 novels. Unlike the months of planning Boyne had for his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft of Boy in two and a half days, barely sleeping until he got to the end. To date the novel has sold more than 3 million copies around the world. In 2007 it was the best selling book of the year in Spain.
Plot
The book is about a young boy, Bruno, the son of commander general. He has a head strong sister, Gretel (called "the Hopeless case"). They used to live in a five storey mansion, but are one day suddenly move to a place called Auschwitz. Bruno, angered and confused by his father's decision to move, and desperate to go home, spends his time in his room, without any friends to play with. He misses their old five-storey mansion. With such a small space, there isn't any room for exploration (a hobby of Bruno's) like there was in his old home.
From his bedroom window, Bruno spots a fence behind which he sees many people in 'striped pyjamas'. These are the Jews, and they are in a concentration camp. One day his parents come to an agreement that both Bruno and Gretel need a tutor for their education so they hire Herr Liszt. To Bruno, Herr Liszt is the most boring teacher one could ever have; he teaches social science instead of reading and arts, which Bruno prefers. So, in boredom and confusion, Bruno wonders what is going on at Auschwitz and why people are always dressed in striped pajamas there. One afternoon, he goes exploring, and finds a Jewish boy called Shmuel, a name Bruno has never heard of before but which apparently is quite common in the concentration camp. Shmuel soon becomes Bruno's friend and Bruno goes to see him every afternoon to talk. Bruno is told that the people in the striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence are Jews and that he and his family are "the opposite". Shortly after this, Bruno and Gretel get a bad case of lice and Bruno has to have his head shaved. This makes him look a lot more like his friend Shmuel and he finds himself thinking that it is as if "they weren't all that different, really."
The story ends with Bruno about to leave Auschwitz . As a final adventure, he agrees to dress in a set of striped pyjamas and climb under a loose wire in the fence to help Shmuel find his father, who went missing in the camp. They are unable to find him, and just as it starts to rain and Bruno decides he would like to go home, the people in the area of the camp which the boys are in must go on a march. Neither boy knows where this march will lead. However, they are crowded into a gas chamber, and the author leaves the story with Bruno pondering, yet unafraid, in the dark.
The book ends with the effects of Bruno's disappearance on his family and his father discovering his clothes outside the fence, realising the implications of this.

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