Episode 620: Jacob's Ladder (1990)
The Projection Booth Podcast
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Spielberg's Jacob's Triumph in a Way
Spielberg didn't want the film to have any real biblical reference which in a way was not wrong. He came up with this idea of his having a dead son who leads him perhaps and finally arrived at this up a staircase but it's clearly more material and in real world so we did thatWe shot the film like that he tried to do a little bit of some of the battle scenes that we had but I could tell you the way he was shooting it there was no continuity it not enough continuity for it to ever make it into the filmSo we ended up losing that that was very painful for me, on the other hand what I would watch the dailies even his
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