Minority Report
Backup: Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg

2054

Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, "Minority Report" is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.

Main theme of Minority Report is the classic philosophical debate of free will versus determinism.

Other themes explored by the film include involuntary commitment, the nature of political and legal systems in a high technology-advanced society, the rights of privacy in a media-dominated world, and the nature of self-perception.

The film also continues to follow Spielberg's tradition of depicting broken families

Spielberg was attracted to the story because as both a mystery and a film set 50 years in the future, it allowed him to do "a blending of genres" which intrigued him.

Minority Report attempts to embody a more "realistic" depiction of the future.
The setting had to keep both elements of the present and ones which specialists expected would be forthcoming. Thus Washington, D.C., as depicted in the movie keeps well-known buildings such as the Capitol and the Washington Monument, as well as a section of modern buildings on the other side of the Potomac River. Production designer Alex McDowell was hired based on his work in Fight Club and his storyboards for a film version of Fahrenheit 451 which would have starred Mel Gibson. McDowell studied modern architecture, and his sets contain many curves, circular shapes, and reflective materials. Costume designer Deborah L. Scott decided to make the clothes worn by the characters as simple as possible, so as not to make the depiction of the future seem dated.

The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

The picture was deliberately overlit, and the negative was bleach-bypassed during post-production

The color was reduced by "about 40%" to achieve the "washed-out" appearance.

Relied on colorless chrome and glass objects of curved and circular shapes in his set designs, which, aided by the "low-key contrastive lighting", populated the film with shadows, creating a "futuristic film noir atmosphere"

The score was composed by regular Spielberg collaborator John Williams, who was inspired by Bernard Herrmann's film music.

Instead of focusing on the science fiction elements, he made a score suitable for the film noir, including the use of female singer in the some sequences, and emotional themes, which Williams considered unusual for that genre

It is the same font used into own movie's title sequence.

Used for the cast members' names engraved on the ball

John Anderson (Tom Cruise)
Agatha (Samantha Morton)
Danny Witwer (Collin Farrell)
Director Lamar (Max Von Sydow)

Eye balls
Red/Brown wooden ball w names
Walking eye scanners
Precrime Logo
Huge Eye

3 precogs in 'temple' (Ariel view)
John and Agatha next to each other
Place where they keep arrested people

Precrime logo zooms out to center of frame
Spins vertically once
'A Steven Spielberg Film' text appears
Text disappears

logo fades
scene of 3 precogs in liquid surface in place of logo

Zoom into scene of 3 precogs in liquid

Balls drop/roll into frame, showing words on 1st wooden ball, Tom Cruise

Balls Rotate Anti Clockwise to reveal next ball

Shows ball with 'Samantha Morton'

Balls Rotate Anti Clockwise to reveal next ball

Shows ball with 'Colin Farrell'

Balls Rotate Anti Clockwise to reveal next ball

Shows ball with 'Max Von Sydow'

Balls Rotate Anti Clockwise to reveal next ball

Eyeballs spin in its spots
Some shrink, some enlarge

Center eye ball enlarges, filling screen
Other eye balls shrink, moving out of frame 

Eye ball fades to eye
Scenes from movie flash on pupil
Eye blinks

Zoom into pupil

Title flies away from camera, to center of frame