Spielberg Note 1: "ET"

Crawford 2021-10-19 10:14:08


Spielberg blue, this is Spielberg's favorite color of allen Daviau's early photography. But since "Schindler's List" in 1993, his royal photography has been replaced by Janusz Kaminski, who prefers large areas of white tones.



Between 36 minutes and 24 seconds to 36 minutes and 52 seconds, a classic Dolly Zoom lens. Although the sliding zoom in "Jaws" is more famous, these two lenses should be of the same level. Spielberg has many other uses of this kind. The author of this technique is Hitchcock ("Victorius").



Spielberg pays tribute to John Ford’s "Pengmen Jinshi is King", the same plot action is repeated, and the soundtrack here is very intriguing: during the TV broadcast time, "Pengmen Jinshi is King" is used. The original soundtrack of "Open", the part of Elliot and the little girl in reality, is the music of "Pengmen Begins to Open" imitated by John Williams. The overall hearing is still coherent, but there are differences in texture. At the end of this melody, Williams mixes the music of the old movies with the music he composed for ET.



Lighted fingers heal wounds, good shots


The mother and daughter read Peter Pan, and it is clear that Spielberg's next film is "Captain Hook."




I met Master Yoda on Halloween and paid tribute to Lucas's "Star Wars", where John Williams also implanted the music he composed for "Star Wars".


Good shot, but in terms of the expressiveness of the picture, it can be among the top ten in film history.


A tribute to the space corridor reflected by the helmet in Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey".


It’s also a good shot. This section of the music Adventure on earth is also the best in the whole film. It is 15 minutes long. Spielberg likes this music too much, so I re-cut the film according to this music. John Williams could let him do this.

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Extended Reading
  • Leanna 2022-03-24 09:01:10

    The most rare thing is that Spielberg has always made a movie of his own for children since the beginning of this ET for decades, such as artificial intelligence and the recent number one player in The Adventures of Tintin. As a top director in the world, it is still very good to be able to always have this kind of original aspiration. The two scenes of flying up on a bicycle in the film were really exciting when I saw it, but to my surprise, the children’s level of riding bicycles is so good, I think I can participate in the sports games. The appearance of ET can be described as ugly, especially the section where the river was killed. After that, I was more confused that everyone used a very high level of protection to treat and understand ET, but when it was in danger, many people took off masks, Protective helmets, active exposure, what is the logic? At the moment when the epidemic is raging, it feels weird to look at it. What shocked me most was the box office of this film. In 1982, the global box office was 800 million U.S. dollars, which is amazing! It turned out to be the second-highest box office performance in the director's career, second only to Jurassic Park.

  • Heloise 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Being a kind is much more difficult than acting as a bad guy. Even though sometime it is way hard to pretend to be the bad.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial quotes

  • [first lines]

    Steve: [reading dice] Five.

    Michael: Oh, great.

    Steve: So you got an arrow right in your chest.

  • E.T.: [DELETED SCENE: E.T. steps on a bathroom scale, it reads 35 lbs]

    Elliott: 35 pounds? 35 pounds? But you're so fat!