The Five Ways To Know Youre Watching a Spielberg Movie
Like any director who has worked as long as he has  29 films over more than 40 years, including the recent hit Bridge of Spies, his fourth collaboration with Tom Hanks  Steven Spielberg has both stylistic and thematic tics that pop up again and again in his work, regardless of genre And he has worked across many genres, including war, sci-fi, adventure, historical drama and animated. Perhaps you've noticed one of these five, which we've compiled in the video above. Special thanks to video editor Valerie Lapinski., 1. Daddy issues, Spielberg's parents divorced when he was 19 years old, an incident that clearly affected the young man. In films from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, fatherhood is something to be feared, avoided and run away fromuntil it isn't. An older Spielberg has said that, had he been a father at the time, he would have thought twice about having the main character in Close Encounters abandon his family so quickly. MORE See War Horse on Richard Corliss' Top 10 Films of 2011, 2. Streams of light, LIST The All-TIME 100 Movies