![]() The movie opens with a great hook in which we see the Extraterrestrial for the first time, albeit briefly and mostly indirectly. ventures down to the city as the bad guys continue searching.Ġ8:00 Elliot wants to play but all he’s good for is getting the pizza.Ġ9:00 He gets the pizza… and hears something in the garage.Ġ9:30 Back garden: Elliot throws a ball into the shed, and it’s thrown back.ġ0:30 Elliot runs into the house screaming with shock – they all go hunting.ġ1:00 ‘It’s just a coyote.’ Nobody believes Elliot.ġ2:30 Elliot checks again and sees him. misses the boat – the spaceship leaves without him.Ġ7:30 E.T. They begin searching.Ġ6:00 E.T.’s homing signal glows alerting the bad guys and the chase is on!Ġ7:00 E.T. ![]() Homing signals glow.Ġ5:00 The bad guys arrive in trucks. lands on earth and leaves the spaceship.Ġ3:00 E.T. ![]() In addition to what I’ve already said and written about Point Of View, it is worth noting how POV is handled in this film.ĪCT ONE Sequence A: A scary first meeting (12:30mins)Ġ0:00 E.T. Obviously this didn’t keep it from being ridiculously successful. looks far more traditional than Close Encounters, which seems to have a never-ending first act (and threshold sequence), a non-existing second act and a downright odd ending – which I still loved. “Steven Spielberg offered him the opportunity to direct this scarier sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind until problems arose over special effects that required a major rewrite.”Ī few years ago Ron, who lives here in Sydney, replicated to me the pitch for Night Skies and, believe me, it sent shivers down my spine…īut we were going to talk story and structure. was written by Melissa Mathison but the original story Night Skies (that went on to become E.T.) was pitched to Spielberg in a Paris hotel by concept artist Ron Cobb. I’m still a big Spielberg fan, although War Of The Worlds made a small dent in this and – being Belgian – I’m a bit nervous about Tintin. It made me officially a Steven Spielberg fan.īy Dave Trendall (structure breakdown) and Karel Segers (notes). became the first movie I ever went to see a second time in the cinema. As a young teenager, Close Encounters made the deepest impression on me.
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