Robert Zemeckis
4 titles · american genre
Technology deployed for popular storytelling. Zemeckis pairs mainstream sentiment with whatever the effects state of the art will allow, and returns often to a man carried through history by accident.
Signature
- Technical innovation foregrounded as attraction.
- Precisely engineered time and causality gags.
- Sentiment delivered without hedging.
- One ordinary figure moving through recognisable history.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Cast Away
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