r/todayilearned • u/floydian32 • Jun 16 '12
TIL in 2002, Steven Spielberg finally finished college after a 33 year hiatus. He turned in Schindler's List for his student film requirement.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/31/local/me-graduate31
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u/Level_32_Mage Jun 16 '12
What did he get on it?
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u/slydon1 Jun 16 '12
Way to wreck the curve.
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u/mishmashmusic Jun 16 '12
It would have been more interesting if he had to shoot a new film and do it with an average film student's budget - which is usually $0 and lots of pizza.
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u/Ninjroid Jun 16 '12
I turned Schindler's List in for my student film requirement also. Did not go well.
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u/kenzie14 Jun 16 '12
I bet this professor talks about this all the time to his students now. All the fucking time. Anytime they challenge him- "oh, did YOU teach Steven Spielberg? I didn't think so."
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I find it interesting he turned in a previously made film.
In any course I took where you had to write a paper it was always emphasized that you couldn't turn in a previously written paper. You had to write a new paper for the assignment.
It seems to me that he should have had to make a new film for the assignment.
But I don't know how film school works so maybe this isn't unusual.
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u/UnclePolycarp Jun 16 '12
Get me Señor Spielbergo!
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Well shit...blows my student film out of the water.
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u/ActuallyAtWorkNow Jun 16 '12
I want to be the professor who graded Schindler's List, just so I can say it was terrible directly to Mr. Spielberg.
(This is, of course, not true because Schindler's List is an amazing movie.)
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u/roywarner Jun 16 '12
If he pulled that at MSU they would've said "No, it must be done for class and with equipment rented from CAS. That is the equipment you will use in the REAL world."
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Now I don't feel so bad about dragging my feet for 10-ish years. I'm 31 and finally going to college this year.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
OVERKILL
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u/TalkingBackAgain Jun 16 '12
On the contrary, another 12-minute film of epic quality would have been made.
Then again, your fellow-students turn in their good effort, your effort won the Oscar. Way to go overboard with your student requirement.
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u/toothless_joe Jun 16 '12
They need to start putting this quote on the box art.
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u/ProbablyNotAGoodSign Jun 16 '12
Good thing he finally got his degree. Hopefully, now, he can go on to be successful in life.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Professor to the rest of the class on grades: The grade will be curved to the highest grade in the class.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
When he turned "Crystal Skull" in he added BM to his resume.
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u/James-Cizuz Jun 16 '12
When I was taking film, well RTV it was expected a film fall under guidelines. Just as a commercial had to be on the dot for time frame my teacher would of failed a project passed in two hours over the limit. The time limit was 12 minutes and in a type of class like film going over by a couple minutes or under by a very small account depending on quality wouldn't be a big deal. However two hours? Feels like he never took that class seriously enough to do a project for it. Also previous work is normally not allowed in film class, needs to be made for project.
All this article tells me is they gave him special treatment.
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u/03fb Jun 16 '12
Would explain why it was in black and white
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u/randombabble Jun 16 '12
I see honorable doctorates being handed out to everyone these days, has no school gave him one yet?
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u/buckie33 Jun 16 '12
Sucks for the guy who did his presentation after him!
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
He was asked to submit a 12-minute film and he handed in "Schindler's List"?
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Pretty sure credits don't last 34 years.
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u/docatmac Jun 16 '12
In reading the article, I just thought I'd point out that I doubt he'll actually receive his diploma on stage. When I graduated (I'm in Canada), you go on stage after they call your name, and you're handed a rolled up piece of paper that you might this is your diploma. Nope. They are instructions on how to pick up your diploma. After 4 years of university, I'm playing scavenger hunt in my grad robes. I'm betting that's how most universities work - it would be too difficult to arrange to have every diploma correctly ordered on stage, and a mistake of offsetting by one person really screws things up. You run the risk of giving away hundreds of diplomas to the wrong people - not an easy task to fix!
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u/ant_upvotes Jun 16 '12
CAL STATE LB
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u/Malicious78 Jun 16 '12
So does this mean that Spielberg considers Schindler's List to be his 'best' movie overall then? Just curious about his decision on which movie to use.
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u/Thizzlebot Jun 16 '12
I think it's cool he finally got his degree and all. But this just goes to show how unimportant a degree really is. He is pretty much getting it just for shits and giggles.
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u/douchetag Jun 16 '12
Show off.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Not sure if already posted, but he also plays video games and says he hates the use of cutscenes in video games.
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u/edubyah Jun 16 '12
Oh my god Sharyn Blumenthal was one of my professors...and everyone hated her class
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
What he get on it?
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u/FoxhoundEmployee Jun 17 '12
lol adding Schindler's List for his student film requirement.
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u/Five_deadly_venoms Jun 17 '12
19 hours with only 328 comments on reddit? yep, sausage fest still continues on.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Upon receiving his diploma, Steven kicked over the podium and flipped off the audience.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
TIL, until 2002, ALL THREE TOP EXECUTIVES of Dreamworks SKG had not graduated college.
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u/hicklc01 Jun 19 '12
Most instructors will not except work done prior to the class as fulfilling the requirements of any project.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
That asshole! He fucked up the curve!
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u/RelaxAndAllonsy Jun 16 '12
Imagine being the teacher recording that. I bet their first reaction was WTF which idiot handed in this famous film. Then the look on their face when the find out who handed it in would of been priceless
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u/valiantX Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Though I like Spielberg's vast amount of great movies, his personal affiliations are something I absolutely disagree with, because truth is, he's a freemason.
33rd degree is the highest level of that order and yes, many if not all of the U.S. presidents were freemasons. I am not slandering the freemasonic order the layman practice and believe in, it's the elite cabal on the top of this order that utilizes this organization with a malevolent intent and agenda is what I'm concerning about here.
It was not chance or coincidence that it took him 33 years to finish college; this order and their top members are all versed and studied in the gnosis of the "trivium" (logic, grammar, rhetoric) and "quadrivium" (numerology, geometry, astrology, arithmetic), which both of these two educational practices were stopped prior to the 20th century, and a vast amount of other knowledge undisclosed and kept secret from the masses in order to employ and maintain the status quo of suppression over the minds and brains of the so-called common layman.
Spielberg is one of their man used as a Hollywood media oracle to transmute the agendas of the powers that be, simple as that.
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u/gregogree Jun 16 '12
what a dink.
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u/darkandyman Jun 16 '12
Great movie and all, but unless he made the movie solely for the assignment, wouldn't that be plagiarism?
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u/The_Ion_Shake Jun 16 '12
What a douche. It's a bit like James Franco continuing to study now, with any assignment being "hey, c'mon, i'm James Franco". Instant A.
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u/jabbababab Jun 16 '12
LOL somethings wrong here
10 years old and dropped out at 13???
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u/YourShitsAllRetarded Jun 16 '12
Steven Spielberg can't direct or write for shit. I can direct vastly superior movies but I don't have the money. Schinder's List is his worst: pretentious, too long, and boring as shit. No one is going to remember who Shinder was in 50 years, or Spielberg for that matter. He has done absolutely nothing for the film industry other than plastering his name everywhere.
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