![]() For that, Spielberg commissioned Melissa Mathison, who’d previously written The Black Stallion, another spare children’s drama about the connection between a little boy and an orphaned creature. The storybook simplicity of the film is key. Elliott grows up at a breathlessly accelerated rate. ![]() (Many adults fail to learn it.) Spielberg conceived a science-fiction fantasy where a boy literally feels what another being feels, and the bond between them is overwhelmingly powerful. They understand how events affect them, but empathy is a learned trait, part of the same slow developmental process that teaches them to walk and read and fend for themselves. A child of divorce himself, Spielberg is uniquely perceptive about how kids are sensitive, vulnerable, innocent creatures who feel the world intensely, but are also naturally solipsistic. And that’s why it’s been extracting tears from audiences so effectively for 40 years. Thank God that both versions were on the collectors edition DVD set.Thinking about others is what ET is about. And, I simply refuse to watch that version again. However, I am still disgusted with the 20th anniversary rerelease, with new scenes & all of the "politically correct" editing that was done to that release. And hopefully even more before I shuffle off this mortal coil. ![]() And as of, I have actually grabbed hold of everything Sir John Williams.Īnd, to date, I have nearly 400 viewings of E.T. ![]() But, it didn't take me long to begin collecting any & everything he'd ever written and/or recorded. And, although I did know who Sir John Williams was, had never purchased a movie soundtrack before E.T. ![]() soundtrack twice, and was on the verge of doing the same with my 3rd copy. Between time was spent absorbing one of the greatest movie soundtracks I have ever heard, and still believe that 38 years later! By the time my senior year of high school began, I had purchased & wore out the E.T. I was instantly hooked, and spent my entire summer at that theater, watching E.T. In 1982, I sat front row center for the very first showing of E.T. ![]()
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