I will always associate the movie with my dad. He took me to see it when I was 9. I owned the trading cards and memorized most of the images long before I saw the movie. Some of the shots in this thing still smell like photographic film and bubblegum to me.
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J.G. Ballard once compared Spielberg to Rossini. I think about that comparison a lot. When he's really cooking, what he does is closer to symphonic music than traditional narrative cinema. He's conducting the audience's emotions.
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I still notice new things ever time I watch CE3K, and I've been watching it once or twice a year for decades. This time I noticed the guy center-frame amid all the scientists surrounding the mothership's entrance. He simply collapses as if his knees just gave out on him.
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This time for some reason I was really taken with the young, skinny piano player who spends the last twenty minutes of the film completely entranced, like a grownup version of Barry, the little boy.
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I don't believe I have ever turned down an offer to watch Close Encounters again, and I doubt I ever will.
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No. I've only ever seen that sequence once, during the 1980 rerelease. Didn't Spielberg get rid of it after that?
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I think ET matches it, but otherwise no.
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E.T. is Spielberg’s magnum opus in my humble opinionpic.twitter.com/zwkvMSA1Mh
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