ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 115-minute running science fiction movie from America, which was released in 1982. The movie was jointly produced by Steven Spielberg, an American movie producer and business entrepreneur and Kathleen Kennedy, an American TV and movie screenwriter. The screenplay of the movie was written by Melissa Mathison, an American TV and movie screenwriter. The movie features with special effects by offered by Dennis Muren, a movie special effects performer from America, and Carlo Rambaldi, a movie special effects performer from Italy. The movie includes renowned celebrities, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote, and Drew Barrymore.

The E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie tells the tale of Elliott (Henry Thomas), a lonesome boy who befriends a celestial, named "E.T.", who is trapped on Earth. Elliott, with his siblings assists it return abode while trying to keep it concealed from the government and their mother.

The concept for the movie was derived from a fantasy friend Spielberg created following the divorce of his parents during 1960. During 1980, Steven Spielberg met Melissa Mathison and developed a fresh story from “Night Skies“, the stalled science novel/terror movie project. It was filmed from September 1981 to December 1981 on a financial plan of US$10.5 million in California. Not like other motion pictures, the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie was filmed in approximately sequential order, to make realistic touching performances easy from the youthful cast.

Development of the movie

Subsequent to the divorce of his parents during 1960, Steven Spielberg filled the annulled with a made-up alien friend. Spielberg declared in 1978 that he would shoot a movie with a title “Growing Up”, which he would film within 28 days. The project was reserved, owing to delays on 1941, but the idea of producing a small autobiographical movie regarding his childhood would continue with Spielberg. He, as well, considered about a record to science fiction movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, and started developing a darker project, “Night Skies”, which he had considered with an American autonomous movie director, John Sayles in which malicious aliens frighten a family.

Filming the adventure movie in Tunisia, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” left Spielberg uninterested, and reminiscences of his childhood creation re-emerged. He told Melissa Mathison, the screenwriter, regarding Night Skies, and built up a subplot from the unsuccessful project, in which Buddy, the only sociable alien, makes friends with an autistic kid. The abandonment of Buddy on Earth in the final scene of the script motivated the concept of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie. Melissa Mathison wrote a primary draft with the title “E.T. and Me” within eight weeks, which was considered great by Spielberg.

The script experienced two additional drafts, which removed an "Eddie Haskell", a fictional companion of Elliott. The chase series was created, as well, and Spielberg also recommended having the panorama where E.T. got intoxicated. Columbia Pictures, the movie production and distribution studio of America, making Night Skies, met Steven Spielberg to talk about the script. The studio passed away it, so Spielberg approached the more amenable Sid Sheinberg, the MCA’s president.

Response of the movie

The E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released by an American movie studio, the Universal Pictures, the movie was a hit, exceeding Star Wars to turn out to be the all time maximum-grossing movie, which is a record the movie held for ten years pending Jurassic Park, one more movie directed by Spielberg, exceeded it during 1993. However, the movie continues the 46th all time maximum-grossing movie, and the top-grossing movie of the 1980s. Critics highly praised the movie as a timeless tale of companionship, and it ranks as the best science fiction movie ever produced in a survey conducted by the movie aggregator website, the Rotten Tomatoes. The movie was released again during 1985, and afterward again during 2002 to commemorate its 20th anniversary, with modified shots and supplementary scenes.

Nominations and awards

The E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial movie was nominated for several awards in many categories and won many awards in different categories. Some of the notable wins and nominations of the movie include:

The movie won four 1983 Academy Awards for the Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects and Best Music categories.

It was nominated for the 1983 Oscar awards for the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing categories.