The film’s creative inspiration can be traced back to director Steven Spielberg when he was 14 years old. After his parents divorced, he imagined an alien friend to accompany him; in 1978, he announced that he would shoot in 28 days. For an autobiographical film called "Growing Up", even though the plan was shelved due to the postponement of the filming of "1941", Spielberg never gave up this idea. The director also considered conceiving a follow-up to "The Third Type of Contact", and teamed up with John Sells to prepare a dark film called "", which tells about the threat of evil aliens. The story of a family. During the filming of "Indiana Jones" in Tunisia, creative ideas about childhood memories once again occupied his mind; so he revealed the cancelled "Night Sky" to the screenwriter Melissa Matheson, and conceived some minor plots. For example, Buddy, the only friendly alien, became friends with a lonely child, and the scene of Buddy being abandoned on the earth in the end inspired the film's creative inspiration. Matheson completed the first draft of the script in 8 weeks, called "ETand Me", after which it was revised twice.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Creative background
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial quotes
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Mary: If you ever see it again, whatever it is, don't touch it, just call me and we'll have somebody come and take it away.
Gertie: Like the dogcatcher?
Elliott: But they'll give it a lobotomy or do experiments on it or something.
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Michael: Maybe he's some animal that wasn't supposed to live; kind of like those rabbits we saw. He could be a monkey or an orangutan.
Elliott: A bald monkey?
Gertie: Is he a pig? He sure eats like one.