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ElodieJones

06-29-2007, 08:14 AM

I'm in New Haven since June 27 evening and that's so great.
We can see many things and really close !

But oh my GOD !!!
I can't believe what happend to me today.

STEVEN SPIELBERG walked in front of me just 20 cm away from me, and I was so choqued that I can't tell anything and just watch him going away.
And I were wearing that t-shirt with the drawing of him !

But I try many things to get contact to meet him and I never dare hope to see him just walking in front of me, and not for the 1st day !!!
That was just incredible :eek:

I'm sooooo sad, I think I hate myself for that, it was a great chance to give him my drawings.

I hope I will meet him another day, but "really meet him"

Finn

06-29-2007, 11:09 AM

And he didn't comment the shirt at all?

What a jerk.

Falcon

06-29-2007, 11:19 AM

And he didn't comment the shirt at all?

What a jerk.

He may simply have walked by, and not been looking her way.

ElodieJones

06-29-2007, 10:33 PM

Yeah I don't know if he saw me.
He was just walking fast to the set for work.

And today I saw him a lot of time, but not as close ;)

Because he was on top of a truck for shooting.
And with 3 friends we were in the end of the street, where the truck turn around.
So when it turn around, Steven Spielberg say hi to people waving his hands!!!
I'm almost sure that he see me with my "Steven Spielberg" t-shirt an my Swiss cap!

Next time it will be the meeting ;)

Falcon

06-30-2007, 09:42 AM

Just keep trying to get yourself noticed, and hopefully be in the right place at the right time. Maybe you can get an opportunity to talk to crew or staff of the film, and tell them about yourself. They might be able to introduce you to him.

sarah navarro

07-01-2007, 10:20 PM

thats pretty sad , i would really like to see ur drawings:D

ElodieJones

07-02-2007, 07:36 PM

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!!!
I MADE IT !!!

This morning with Fred and Aaron, we were awake at 5h00.
At 6h00 we were on the Green Park for met Shia Labeouf !
He was very kind and nice, but he couldn’t help us for Steven Spielberg !
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/SHIA.jpg

Then we went for breakfast. Later, we were walking in the streets searching for maybe Steven Spielberg, and we saw a man with a cap !
So we aproach and it was STEVEN SPIELBERG !!!

He was on the other side of the road, and he waves at us to come, but his security guards say stop, and wait there !
So we wait a moment and we STRESSED because he was only in the other side of the road and we can’t go through !!! And we were affraid if he goes away !!!

But then a guard comes to us and tell us that Steven Spieblerg is ok for meet us and sign my huge drawing, but then we must not try to be bad guys and following him everywhere.

So we cross the street and STRESS STRESS STRESS, we wait near a wall, then Steven Spielberg comes to us and shake our hands.
Then I give him my file with my drawings and pictures he asked me if it’s really for him and I say « YES of course !!!» He was sooo happy !
He look a little bit at it and say that my drawings are great !!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg.jpg

Then I give him my « Director’s Chair » with my name on it for sign it ! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/AUTOGRAPHE1.jpg

Then he ask me to show him the HUGE drawings that I print and say he want to sign it for me !
And he made a LONG signature !!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/AUTOGRAPHE.jpg
Then pictures ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/MeetStevenSpielberg10.jpg

Other pictures here : http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Indiana.Jones/Steven%20Spielberg/MEET%20SPIELBERG/

He was sooooo nice !
Fred asked him hwo many caps he do have, and he say that he can’t count ;)

I tell him that I was very affraid of E.T. and he say « You were affraid of E.T. ??? »
Then I say « Yeah I made a therapy for that »
And he laught, that was just GREAT !!!

I’m so happy, it was my BIGGEST DREAM and it comes true !
So I can really say that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING !!!

Thanks Steven Spielberg for realizing with this GREAT meeting !!!

Thanks Aaron for taking the pictures ;)

the_tortel_tres

07-02-2007, 07:40 PM

Freakin' awesome

Falcon

07-02-2007, 09:49 PM

Congratulations, Elodie! I knew you could do it. I'm very happy for you. :up:

Joe Brody

07-02-2007, 09:59 PM

Wow. Fantastic journey. You've earned and deserve all the success I'm sure you'll have in the future.

Joe Brody

07-02-2007, 10:00 PM

[sorry for the double-post but I can't edit.]

I just hope Captain Jack didn't find a way into your portfolio!

the_tortel_tres

07-02-2007, 10:05 PM

[sorry for the double-post but I can't edit.]

I just hope Captain Jack didn't find a way into your portfolio!
I-am-cornpolio! are you threatening me?!
(sorry, couldn't resist:p )

Avilos

07-02-2007, 10:28 PM

Attila the Professor

07-02-2007, 10:58 PM

Ohio Jones

07-03-2007, 02:09 AM

Wow, meeting 'The 'Berg'! That's awesome, sounds like you lived out a dream. Congratulations to you all and great work on the drawings :D.

And thanks for sharing.

Finn

07-03-2007, 06:18 AM

Gongratulations, Elodie!

And good for you too, Mr. Spielberg. You're a jerk no longer.

Papa Jones

07-03-2007, 06:30 AM

Wow... Spielberg rules...

so do you Elodie, congrats! :whip:

ElodieJones

07-03-2007, 04:04 PM

That is really fantastic Elodie! I looked at your all of the drawings at your Myspace page and you are very talented.

Where you nervous showing Steven Spielberg your drawings of him? As an artist myself, I am never sure how real people will react to a drawing of themselves.

No, I never though of that, I was already VERY, VERY NERVOUS to meet Steven Spielberg himself !!!
But I was nervous if he would accept me to give him that file with my drawings, a letter, pictures, etc...
But he was so happy to have that :up:

San Holo

07-03-2007, 11:52 PM

Glad to hear things went so well, I am very happy for you Elodie! Did you give Spielberg a way to contact you? Maybe he can start your movie career;)

Doctor Jones'89

07-04-2007, 12:15 AM

VERY well done Elodie!!!:up:
Don't waste this chance, if you like to be an artist you should keep on this way! As you've seen there nothing that is impossible if you are truly interested in it.

Congratulations again:)

PS: Did Shia or Mr. Spielberg tell you something about the movie?????

Bullwhip

07-04-2007, 06:01 PM

Elodie is a hawtie.

bergstrom

07-04-2007, 06:13 PM

Well Done Elodie!!!!!!!!!!

Moedred

07-04-2007, 06:25 PM

A teenage girl looks past the 21-year-old heartthrob to meet the 60-year-old director! Every franchise should have fans like Raveners.

Spielberg is like the coolest kid in the neighborhood, who happens to have best toys.

Indy1986

07-04-2007, 06:32 PM

Hey Elodie....wow
I must admit i am jealous I wanted to meet Spielberg for years since I am also a huge fan!
Congratulations. Your are very very lucky!
If I wouldn't have had my graduation at the same time I would have gone to new Haven as well.
Again Congratulations:whip:

Inbanana

07-04-2007, 06:47 PM

That is just a great story...

Johan

07-04-2007, 06:53 PM

Amazing Elodie! Thanks for sharing your pictures with us.

Jawad M

07-04-2007, 08:15 PM

No, I never though of that, I was already VERY, VERY NERVOUS to meet Steven Spielberg himself !!!
But I was nervous if he would accept me to give him that file with my drawings, a letter, pictures, etc...
But he was so happy to have that :up:

Congrats on the well deserve meeting.

I have to say that you beat me out. As a owner of DreamWorksFansite.com, the closest I came was on the set of War of the Worlds in 2005. I was suppose to interview the guy but sometimes things are not meant to be happen.

In your case they were. Congrats again

Johan

07-04-2007, 08:22 PM

Borderline advertising Jawad .... but it worked. I'm visiting the site now.

scifiwolf

07-04-2007, 08:30 PM

I tell him that I was very affraid of E.T. and he say « You were affraid of E.T. ??? »
Then I say « Yeah I made a therapy for that »
And he laught, that was just GREAT !!!
That's so cool you told him about ET! I told him the same thing when I met him! I told him the suspense from Elliot's point of view scared me cause I was only 4 when I first saw it, and that stayed with me up until, like, middle school.

Wow, I always thought I was the only person who was ever scared of ET. Great drawings, too, Elodie!

throwmetheidol

07-04-2007, 10:33 PM

Bravo Elodie! It's always great to hear these stories. Too many times we hear a negative one and then pass it on that "x" was a jerk. I'm happy to hear of your success and that Mr. Spielberg was all you had hoped for.

-les

dmaster

07-05-2007, 04:55 AM

This is truly and amazing event! I'm totally impressed by the total focus and drive to try and go ahead and meet destiny head on by travelling all the way from Europe to the States in order to follow a dream to its ultimate conclusion.

When we believe in something strong enough, and long enough, and even make drawings of it :), things will move us in wonderful ways!

Congratulation on your dream Elodie! :whip:

Now I just need to get that ticket to Skywalker Ranch! :D

Jawad M

07-05-2007, 10:47 AM

Borderline advertising Jawad .... but it worked. I'm visiting the site now.

i am glad it worked:)....but honestly true congrats to the girl who did it:)

Hanselation

07-12-2007, 04:46 PM

Noch nie hat ein X ....

Hanselation

07-12-2007, 04:50 PM

C O N G R AT U L A T I O N !

That's really great ambition with a positive result.
It's really admirable how you made your dream come true!

sarah navarro

07-12-2007, 05:52 PM

cool elodie , i looked at all your pictures you drew there great

congratulations i hope he was as nice as he seems:up:

deckard24

07-12-2007, 05:56 PM

Congrats Elodie! That is so cool, and I saw you on the New Haven Register homepage as well. Not only did you get to meet your idol, but you also made the news! It's too bad Ford wasn't strolling around so you could have gotten a pic with him as well.

Vendetta08

07-12-2007, 10:15 PM

Congratulations! Sounds and looks like you had a great time!

ElodieJones

07-13-2007, 12:50 AM

Wow, thanks for all those nice messages !

For the New Haven Register, it's funny, because originally we wanted to make this article for maybe help us to meet Steven Spielberg.
If maybe somebody of his crew or himself would have read it, he could contact us.
We planned the interview on July 2 at 11:00am.
But that morning at 8:00, we met Steven Spielberg :D
So the interview was very different :p

DaFedora

07-15-2007, 06:35 PM

O ... MY ... GOD !!!

It was a while since I checked your posts, Elodie... but now you kinda hit the roof !!! I accidentally came across those photo's in your DeviantArt gallery
(over here for the lot of you: http://elodiejones.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24 )

My jaw dropped and I couldn't say a thing for like two minutes straight. That is so incredibly *wow*.

By the way, you must have ruled in so much planning just to get a glimpse of him !!

Right now I shouldn't be envious but... WAY TO GO GIRL !!!

<SIGH> I wish I could show Spielberg my own Master's Paper I'm finishing this month... only Spielberg's autograph (or that of Harrison's) would make my college years complete ! P.s. That master's thesis is ironically about museum acquisitions in my home town LOL. Bet Marcus Brody would love to read that :-)

Closest thing I ever came to that was visiting the set of Episode II over in Ksar Hadada (Tunisia) where they were about to shoot the Tatooine scenes... but the sets were still been constructed and no trail of George Lucas around yet...

Noone can take that moment of yours Elodie... treasure it like the biggest Idol you've ever witnessed.
You rock!

ElodieJones

07-16-2007, 12:30 AM

Thanks DaFedora ;)

Thanks for your message
Yeah you're right, nobody can take that moment from me !
That's something which will always stay with me.

roundshort

07-16-2007, 10:40 AM

E-
Good for you kid! Nice work. I am glad you were able to met him!

kongisking

07-16-2007, 11:23 AM

Jesus, you lucky BStard!!! I would give my lower torso and sell my grandmother to have done what you did! Congrats!!! Man, you are lucky. I am so jealous! Did you see Harrison? or the new Indy girl? or our newest badass villain?

LUCKY!!! :rolleyes:

kongisking

07-16-2007, 11:26 AM

sarah navarro

07-16-2007, 08:09 PM

Ever heard of the upcoming movie "Fanboys", Dmaster?

i have it looks cool:up:

No Ticket

07-21-2007, 03:58 PM

Elodie, I only just found this thread so I didn't know this happened until today but WOW!!! I'm so happy for you! Awesome!

Steven Spielberg is my #1 person I'd most like to meet in the entire world. #2 is Tom Hanks and #3 is Harrison Ford!!

That's so incredible! I wish I could have gone to New Haven and all that and had a chance to meet him... although I'm sure your one of the few who got that lucky! What an awesome thing to happen! AND you met Shia!!

Congratulations and thanks for sharing!! :hat:

ElodieJones

07-22-2007, 01:37 PM

Yeah before the meeting, everybody tolds us that it will be very VERY difficult, cause he is inaccessible.
Then after the meeting, everybody tolds us that we were REALLY lucky to met him, cause a really few people met him!

QueZTone

07-29-2007, 04:09 PM

judging from your art dedication and fandom over the years, i think you were definitely the one who should have been that lucky to meet him :)

Eric Solo

07-29-2007, 04:20 PM

Steven Spielberg is my #1 person I'd most like to meet in the entire world. #2 is Tom Hanks and #3 is Harrison Ford!!

I heard from a reliable source that Tom Hanks can be a jerk if you meet him in person, which surprised me. I guess anyone can have a bad day.

ElodieJones

07-30-2007, 12:11 AM

Wow QuezTone, thank you very much for that !

I'm soo happy to met him, but somewhere I feel sad.
When I thin of all older fans who have this dream since much more time than me...

HovitosKing

07-30-2007, 03:34 PM

Elodie, at least we can live vicariously through you. Thanks!

Doctorjones

09-05-2007, 02:57 PM

Wow, Congrats.

Kingsley

09-05-2007, 07:24 PM

I admit, when you were first planning your trip to New Haven, I thought it was a silly idea, if only because it might not pay off and would probably be among the lesser ways one could spend the same money on a vacation, but this almost certainly proves me wrong. I'm elated for you that it went so well!
Elodie, you made the trip from switzerland to New Haven to met Mr. Spielberg?
WOW

That's great! When you dream with something a very long time and it comes true in a way it fullfills your expectations, well, that's something that makes me happy too, even when I don't know you. Congratulations, and wonderful drawings by the way. :up:

ElodieJones

09-06-2007, 12:28 AM

Elodie, you made the trip from switzerland to New Haven to met Mr. Spielberg?
WOW

Yes !!!
That's really crazy, I know. I knew that m chances to meet him were soooo small, so it was difficult to me to mke the decision of going there.
But finally I though that it would be less sad for me to go there for "nothing", than to not go there and have regrets. So I buy my flights and I realize my dream :p

eazybox

09-06-2007, 12:54 AM

I felt exactly the same way you did, but I only had to make a train trip from Pennsylvania. It will always be a very treasured memory. I saw you on the news in New Haven when I was there, and I actually prayed that your dream would come true. When I found out that it had-- and especially that you had encountered Spielberg not once but twice-- it brought a tear to my eye, I was so happy for you. If you follow your heart, you CAN achieve miracles.

All the Best,
Jack

Attila the Professor

09-06-2007, 12:59 AM

It's not a freaking miracle...it worked out, and that's great, but let's keep things in perspective. I know I'm asking for that at an internet message board, but can we at least try to have some sense of what's actually important in the landscape?

ResidentAlien

09-06-2007, 01:11 AM

If Spielberg had offered to take her under his wing and let her direct a segment from Indy 4... then I'd say it was a miracle. As it was, it was just a stroke of good fortune that you she got to meet somebody she respected. I've met a few celebrities... wouldn't consider that a miracle... hell, I wouldn't even consider it good fortune. They're just people (sometimes really self-centered people... *cough* Tom Savini *cough*)...

eazybox

09-06-2007, 01:29 AM

She dreamed about it intensely and it came true for her-- her experience speaks for itself, whether you define it as a miracle or good furtune.

Jack

Attila the Professor

09-06-2007, 01:33 AM

I like to think that if miracles really happen, they don't happen for things as cheap as this.

I'm happy for Elodie, but a miracle? Come on.

eazybox

09-06-2007, 01:40 AM

I didn't say what happened to Elodie was a miracle. I said if you follow your dreams, miracles can happen, which I believe.

Jack

Kingsley

09-06-2007, 01:40 AM

I've met a few celebrities... They're just people (sometimes really self-centered people... *cough* Tom Savini *cough*)...

Who the heck is Tom Savini? :confused:

ElodieJones

09-06-2007, 01:42 AM

Attila the Professor

09-06-2007, 01:47 AM

I didn't say what happened to Elodie was a miracle. I said if you follow your dreams, miracles can happen, which I believe.

Jack

Well, no, you pretty clearly implied that it was by talking about it along with your commentary on Elodie and her good fortune. Also, do you have even a remote idea of what a miracle would be? Divine intervention, by which I mean to say, following your dreams really can't have any effect on it.

At least you make sure we remember your name every time you post, I guess.

ResidentAlien

09-06-2007, 01:49 AM

Who the heck is Tom Savini? :confused:

Horror actor and one of the most respected and innovative prosthetic special effects men in the business. And an idol of mine...

...as well as a complete *******...

eazybox

09-06-2007, 01:56 AM

Well, no, you pretty clearly implied that it was by talking about it along with your commentary on Elodie and her good fortune. Also, do you have even a remote idea of what a miracle would be? Divine intervention, by which I mean to say, following your dreams really can't have any effect on it.

At least you make sure we remember your name every time you post, I guess.

I believe in small miracles as well as large, but in my experience debates over these things get nowhere, because it's a matter of faith-- people either believe or they don't. If it makes you happy, just forget I used the word miracle.

Attila the Professor

09-06-2007, 02:01 AM

If you believe in miracles, fine. I'm not going to take issue with that. It just totally cheapens both Elodie's efforts to go all the way to freaking Connecticut from Switzerland and her good fortune (chance being an integral part of existence) in being able to meet Spielberg and see him for as long as she did to bring miracles into this situation, apart from, in my opinion, cheapening miracles.

I'd forget you used the word if you hadn't been so deadset on using it time and time again. It's not sloppiness; it's intellectual carelessness. Anyhow, I'm through.

eazybox

09-06-2007, 02:07 AM

No it's not a miracle,nor luck.
But with my determination, I made things happens.
The people who were around Steven Spielberg (his assistant, bodyguards, etc...) told us that we were very lucky to met him.
He don't spend as much time with fans usually, she was really shoked !!!

But I think that he accepted to meet me because he knew where I was coming from for meet him.

Elodie, whether you call what you did luck, determination or a miracle, I think what happened to you was incredible. I'm sure you'll always treasure the memory of your experience.

All the Best,
Jack

Kingsley

09-06-2007, 02:14 AM

eazybox

09-06-2007, 02:23 AM

Elodie got what she was looking for, and she knows it wasn't an easy thing. And she is happy for that. And I'm too.

Attila, you are annoyed!
Spielberg certainly didn't descend from the sky in a ray of light, but that would have been awesome! :D

I think he did descend on a ray of light, though! I was there and I remember seeing something like that...:up:

Jack

ElodieJones

09-06-2007, 05:30 AM

Ah ah ah very funny :D

I think the real miracle with this meeting, is that I was in the right place at the right time.
Cause there was NO OTHER CHANCES to meet him.
I talked to many people, assistants, some very close to him. But the only chance to meet him is catch him in the street and have the chance to be accepted by him...

That morning was crazy. We met Shia LaBeouf and we asked help, but he says that Steven Spielberg was too busy and he can't help us. He says that he will probably be the only person that we will meet.
So we were so saaaad and we walked in streets, just walking without thinking of where we were going... and we saw Steven Spielberg, only with his crew. It was THE CHANCE !!!

eazybox

09-06-2007, 05:54 AM

He did meet a few others briefly-- one lucky guy wandered into the filming area and got to take photos with Spielberg and Ford before he was escorted off the set-- and Spielberg took the camera away from another fan who was filming him and turned his own camera on him! The film in that camera will be a keeper, I imagine...

But you're right-- your experience was unique. Nobody else got to spend that much time with him! I call that a-- no, I'd better keep my mouth shut.

Jack

indy34

10-05-2007, 06:57 AM

Good for you Elodie what are the chances of that:up:

eazybox

10-05-2007, 10:28 PM

Good for you Elodie what are the chances of that:up:

I'd say slim to none, if almost any other big director was involved-- it's a Cinderella Story, one of several that almost makes it seem as though it was Spielberg's intention that Indy 4 be something of an interactive experience between the fans & the filmakers. My fedora's off to him. :hat:

Jack