ET (Screenshot)
Last Saturday, the immortal film “ET – A Friend from Another Planet” reached the age of 40. The science fiction film for the whole family, if you can even frame it, created by Steven Spielberg, immediately became a classic. The film ran in theaters for a whole year , Until June 1983. In honor of the event in the New York Times revealed some unknown facts about the film we all watched at some point:
When Spielberg began thinking about a sequel to his 1977 film “Third Kind Encounters,” he enlisted writer-director John Sayles to write a horror script called “Night Sky,” which tells the story of a community experiencing an alien invasion. As the Guardian reported, “the tone of ‘Night Sky’ was one of terror and violence.” Fortunately, the director put in his heart to change direction.
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Nine-year-old Henry Thomas knocked out an improvisation at the audition
Thomas, who already had one role in the drama of Sissy Spacek “Raggedy Man“, Conducted an impromptu audition with Spielberg, in which he cried while begging a government agent not to take the E.T. “The improvisation was so endearing that I gave him the role on the spot,” Spielberg said.
ET’s face is based on the faces of celebrities
In the special “The Making of E.T. “, The director shared that he wants ET’s face to be based on some legends.” I remember saying to special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi, here are some pictures of Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg. I love their eyes, can we make the alien’s eyes light-hearted, and as determined and sad as those of these three historical figures? ”
ET’s voice is based, among other things, on a heavy smoker
Special effects artist Ben Burt used many sources for ET’s voice. He toldBBC Because “there are raccoons, sea otters, some horses, a burp from my old film professor fromUSC. There’s my wife’s hard breathing sleeping at night with a cold. “But the main voice came from actress Pat Walsh, a heavy smoker he said. IMDbShe earned $ 380.
In many scenes, ET is dominated by puppets. But 11-year-old Matthew de Merritt was hired to be inside the alien’s costume, in a scene where ET raids the refrigerator. De Merit, who was born without legs, walked on his hands, which gave the alien a unique walk.
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For the sequence of terrifying scenes in which scientists and medical staffs take over the house, Spielberg recruited real doctors to fill the roles: “The entire team of doctors who appeared in the film were real emergency room doctors and various specialists from across California, and it was completely improvised.” Spielberg said he just wanted them to do it like a real emergency.
Indian director and creator Stijit Ray believed that ET’s concept was remarkably similar to a script he wrote in the 1960s called “The Alien”, about “an alien who lands in a village in Bengal and befriends a child”. Spielberg denied the allegations, and in the end Ray decided not to take legal action.
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Spielberg almost fell for a terrible sequel
Spielberg and a screenwriter have already sat down to write “ET:” Night Fears “in which the alien will return to Earth along with an invasion of aliens who” prey and emit a ‘hypnotic buzz’ with paralyzing effects on wildlife in the wild. “In the end, he wisely concluded That it might tarnish the aura of the original film.
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