I was daydreaming one day:

I had VIBES that we are having a great study group so far. I find it inconceivable that Princess Bride played here on July 16th. It just seems like yesterday that this reality was No Country for OldMen but I don’t feel that old! And this OSHER classroom has been a great Room with a View for some great films. As to The Wind and the Lion and Sean Connery, where are you Bond, James Bond? And we had a Brief Encounter with a Theater of Blood last week. At least it seemed brief in some ways. What’s left? Oh yeah - - E.T.

Session 8: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

SHOW OF HANDS: how many have never seen this film before?

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Today’s film is considered one of the best science fiction films of all time. It ranks as the greatest sci-fi film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoessurvey.

The film received universal acclaim. Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and wrote, "This is not simply a good movie. It is one of those movies that brush away our cautions and win our hearts." He later added it to his Great Movies list, structuring the essay as a letter to his grandchildren about the first time they watched it. Michael Sragow of Rolling Stone called Spielberg "a space age Jean Renoir.... for the first time, [he] has put his breathtaking technical skills at the service of his deepest feelings".

The film was nominated for nine Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Gandhi won that award, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared, "I was certain that not only would E.T. win, but that it should win. It was inventive, powerful, [and] wonderful. I make more mundane movies."

• Director: Steven Spielberg

• Producer: Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy

• Writer: Melissa Mathison

• Music: John Williams

• Starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and ET

• Premiered at Cannes May 26, 1982

• Released June 11, 1982

• Budget $10.5 million; box office $792.9 million

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982 Movies Box Office

Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal $359,197,037

2. Tootsie Sony $177,200,000

3. An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount $129,795,554

4. Rocky III MGM $124,146,897

5. Porky's 20th Century Fox $105,492,483

6. Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanParamount

$78,912,963

7. 48 Hrs. $78,868,508

8. Poltergeist MGM $76,606,280

9. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Universal $69,701,637

10. Annie Sony $57,059,003

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

• The concept was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce in 1960.

• Unlike most films, it was shot in rough chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast.

• E.T. was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time—a record it held for eleven years until Jurassic Park, another Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it in 1993.

• It was widely acclaimed by critics as a timeless story of friendship.

• Rotten Tomatoes score: Critics 98% ; Audience 72%

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

• 52 Award Wins and 35 Nominations:

-- 4 Oscars and 5 other Oscar nominations+ Best Sound+ Best Effects, Visual Effects+ Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing+ Best Music, Original Score

– Won Golden Globes for Best Score and Best Film

Henry Thomas

Henry Thomas with fake handle bar mustache

Steven Spielberg

LEFT – 1971 on set of Duel RIGHT – Spielberg and John Williams 2016

Steven Spielberg resume

• Has 59 credits as a director, 175 as a producer and 22 as a writer

–Directorial efforts include Jaws (1975),

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler’s List (1993), Lincoln (2012)

–Producer stuff includes Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), The Pacific (2010)

E.T. cast and Spielberg reunite in 2002?

Steven Spielberg awards

• Has 189 wins and 202 other nominations

–3 Oscars for

+ 1999 Best Director: Saving Private Ryan

+ 1994 Best Director: Schindler’s List

+ 1994 Best Picture: Schindler’s List

–11 other Oscar nominations

–Winner of 3 Golden Globes

–Winner of 3 BAFTA awards

Kathleen KennedyProducer

LEFT - - 1982 event for E.T. with Spielberg & Mathison RIGHT - - 2018 with Ron Howard

Kathleen Kennedy resume

• Has 97 credits as a producer

• 8 Oscar nominations

• Oscar: 2019 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Nominations without Spielberg:

– 2009 BAFTA Best Film for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

– 2000 BAFTA Best Film for The Sixth Sense

2016

John Williams – date unknown

Jaws theme song

Star Wars theme song

Star Wars theme song

Raider’s of the Lost Ark theme song

John Williams resume

• Has 156 credits as composer, 390 credits for Soundtrack

– Some composer things include + Jaws (1975)

+ Star Wars (1977)

+ Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

+ Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

+ Schindler’s List (1993)

+ The Post (2017)

John Williams awards

• Has 170 wins and 317 other nominations

–5 Oscars for

+ 1994 Original Score: Schindler’s List

+ 1984 Original Score: E.T.

+ 1978 Original Score: Star Wars

+ 1976 Original Score: Jaws

+ 1972 Scoring Adaptation: Fiddler on the Roof

–34 other Oscar nominations

Henry Thomas 1984

Henry Thomas resume

• Has 67 credits as actor

+ Legends of the Fall (1994)

+ All the Pretty Horses (2000)

+ Gerald’s Game (2017)

Has 9 nominations and 2 wins

+ 1983 Young Artist Award for E.T. - Best Young Motion Picture Actor

Drew Barrymore in Firestarter 1984

Drew Barrymore resume

• Has 76 credits as actor

+ The Wedding Singer (1998)

+ Never Been Kissed (1999)

+ 50 First Dates (2004)

Has 57 nominations and 33 wins

+ 2010 Golden Globe Award for TV Actress in Grey Gardens

From 1982Peter Coyote in 2014

Peter Coyote voiceover for Cheerios

Peter Coyote resume

• Has 160 credits as actor

+ Bitter Moon (1992)

+ Patch Adams (1998)

+ Erin Brokovich (2000)

Has 7 nominations and 5 wins

+ 2015 Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Narrator in The Roosevelts

From 1979

Dee Wallace in 2015

Dee Wallace resume

• Has 248 credits as actor

+ The Stepford Wives (1975)

+ Cujo (1983)

+ Halloween (2007)

Has 12 nominations and 6 wins

+ 2017 Los Angeles Film Awards for Inspiring Woman in a Film: Charlie’s Gift

From 1982 Current day

E.T.

E.T. resume

• Has 1 credit as ??

+ E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial (1998)

Lights off! Let’s watch the movie.

E.T. resume

• Has 1 credit as cool creature+ E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. says “E.T. home phone!”

“E.T. phone home. E.T. phone home. E.T. phone home.“

“Elliott”

“Oooooooo”

E.T. thinks “You people don’t have telekinesis?”

From 1982Robert MacNaughton in 2012?

Robert MacNaughton resume

• Has 13 credits as actor

+ I Am the Cheese (1983)

+ Frankenstein vs. The Mummy (2015)

-- Has no IMDb credits from 1988 to 2015

-- Retired from acting in 2002. He then worked as a mail carrier in Phoenix, Arizona, and Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2013, he returned to acting.

Henry Thomas more

• “Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in E.T.,” says Henry, now 40. “My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can’t go anywhere.

• “It was like that for the first six months after E.T.was in cinemas. I’d go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

• “I was like a circus freak. But the only time I had to deal with it was when I left the house. So I stopped leaving the house. I became an 11-year-old hermit.”

– https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/et-actor-henry-thomas-on-how-860593

Drew Barrymore more

Drew Barrymore has confessed she's not completely sober after a youth spent battling drug and alcohol issues and a stint in rehab.The actress claims to have found "balance" in her life, which means she doesn't have to cut out all the things she used to be addicted to.In a new Parade magazine (September 2009) interview, the Charlie's Angels actress says, "I'm not (sober) and I don't claim to be - quite the opposite. I've tried to find the balance. I hope it's balanced."Barrymore has always been open about her addictive past -she had her first sip of alcohol when she was nine, began smoking marijuana at the age of 10, and first took cocaine at 12.

Another tidbit

Amy Poehler: “I'm obsessed with Daniel Day-Lewis retiring from acting. ... such a good actor that he played ET and then he just slowly raised his finger up”.

Let’s see if this works.

At the 2013 Golden Globe Awards