- Columbus focuses on the family genre, where majority of his films are appropriate for all ages. His 1990 film 'Home Alone' set this trend, where it was one of Columbus's early noticable movies. Therefore Hollywood began to identify him with the family genre.
- When Columbus was assigned to direct the first Harry Potter movie this furthermore showed that Hollywood appreciated him directing family genre films.
- We are able to see that Columbus is able to work well with children through his work
- By having directed 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' and now 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief" it shows that Chris Columbus has some creativity isn creating fantasy worlds, that allow for the audience to escape from their ordinary lives.
- Columbus had the big mission of directing the hit Broadway show 'Rent', but critics did find that it brought to the big screen the vibrance of the live show even though Columbus used a vast majority of actors from the original Broadway show
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