“Our world feels less divided after a congregation of strangers laughed, wept and jumped out of their seats together”
Steven Spielberg has written an essay on why he thinks the cinema will die.
In a feature film for Empire, Jurassic Park filmmaker talked about the existing pandemic and explained why he was convinced that audiences would return to theaters in the future.
“In the current fitness crisis, where cinemas are closed or attendance is severely limited due to the global pandemic, I am still hopeful that when it is safe, the public will return to the cinema,” Spielberg began.
“In a movie theater, you watch movies with other people in your life, but also in the group of strangers. That’s the magic we enjoy when we passed out to see a movie, a play, a concert or a comedy. “
He continued: “We do not know who all these other people are sitting around us, yet when delight makes us laugh or cry or clap or contemplate, and then, when the lights come on and we leave our seats, the other people with whom we pass into the genuine world, we no longer feel like strangers. “
Steven Spielberg. Credits: Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic
Spielberg also spoke of the sense of the network in the shared, even temporary experience: “We have a network, either in the center and in the mind, or at least sharing for a few hours a hard experience,” he continued.
“This brief period in a theater erases the many things that divide us: race or elegance or ideals or sex or politics. But our country and our world feel less divided, less fractured, after a congregation of strangers laughed, wept, jumped. of their seats together, all at the same time.
“Art asks us to be aware of the individual and the universal, at the same time. And that’s why, of all the things that have the prospect of uniting, none is harder than the unusual nothingness of the arts. “
On the other hand, Steven Spielberg said last year that plans for the sequel to The Goonies are “every two years. “
“The challenge is the bar that you’ve all raised in this genre, I don’t think we’ve controlled ourselves to come up with a bigger concept than the Goonies we all made in the 1980s,” he said.