https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/12/09/steven-spielberg-on-the-couch/
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Hook
TMC-4 — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 07:10 PM)
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/12/09/steven-spielberg-on-the-couch/
In the early nineties, Steven Spielberg was floundering. He had enough success in the previous decade to establish himself as a movie mogul. But his attempts to grow up as a filmmaker did not yield the desired results. Following the critical and commercial failure of Always, Spielberg returned to the childlike wonder of Peter Pan. But Hook was an odd take on the fairy tale in that it envisioned its protagonist as a middle aged man grappling with his own childhood and his role as a parent. The parallels to Spielberg himself are painfully obvious.
Dr. Harvey R. Greenberg put the director on the metaphorical couch for a little psychoanalysis in this article from the Dec 1991 issue of Movieline Magazine.