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Topic: Remember ET
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted April 09, 2018 02:05 PM
Last night I sat back and let the projector and platter to do there thing and watched ET. As I was watching the film it took me back to 1982, when we first went to the cinema to watch it.
The film was a huge hit at at the time, so much so, we took other family members to see it three times, with the same results of the tissues coming out at the scene of ET dying.
Its amazing to think "scary really" that its now been 36 years and in a few more, the film will have its 40th anniversary, how time passes. Watching "ET" last night made me wonder, if a film like that was made for the first time, for todays audience, how it would get on?, was it just the early 80s and how people were back then?
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Rob Young.
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From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted April 09, 2018 02:58 PM
Spielberg is a genius though, isn't he? It's an over used attribute, but you have to admit, you can't deny the accolade to the man.
I've just been reading an interview in Empire about "Ready Player One", where he states that he really thought that "Poltergeist" would be the bigger hit that same year, pointing out that he thought audiences preferred to be scared, and was as surprised as anyone when "E.T." was the huge success.
It's also poignant to consider how important the Oscar winning score by that other genius John Williams is in this film, as Mr. Williams slows down his career. I wish he could go on forever.
I remember a couple of interviews with the Berg, one where he described how at the scoring of "E.T.", John Williams couldn't quite get the timing right for the closing sequence edit. After several attempts, Spielberg apparently said, "Well, there must be something wrong with the timing of the edit, so we'll go back to Michael Kahn and re-cut it to your score".
In another interview, John Williams was struggling with the score for "Saving Private Ryan", and went to Spielberg to say something like, "I've tried, but I think you need a classical composer who is better and more experienced to score this movie..."
Apparently Spielberg retorted with, "Well, they're all dead, so you'll have to get on with it".
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