A closer look
Steven Spielberg famously directed Schindler's List and Jurassic Park during the exact same year, managing the post-production of dinosaurs while filming a harrowing historical drama. He would literally spend his days recreating the darkest moments of the Holocaust and his evenings reviewing special effects shots of giant reptiles eating lawyers on toilets. This staggering emotional whiplash sounds like a deeply unhealthy psychological experiment designed to break a man's spirit, but it somehow resulted in two cinematic masterpieces. While the rest of us require a three-hour nap after sending a mildly stressful email, this guy casually redefined both popcorn blockbusters and prestige cinema simultaneously to make us all feel incredibly inadequate
