From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!cbosgd!cbosg!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: ET (Spoiler) Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.233 Posted: Fri Jun 18 10:11:20 1982 Received: Tue Jun 22 01:43:42 1982 I was surprised that no one noticed the fact described by inuxa!rael----that the aliens glowed red in their abdominal area at the beginning of the movie, and that ET didn't do so again until the end of the movie. Friends that I saw the movie with didn't realize this at all---they thought ET's being packed in ice had something to do with it. They agreed later, however, that the *proximity* of others in his species (and/or the spaceship) explained what happened much better. My feeling is that some sort of "life force" was received in the abdominal area occupied by the red glow. When the spacecraft took off, the glow within ET disappeared soon after. The absence of this force caused his growing deterioration and eventual "death". He apparently was capable of lasting for a short time without this force. The return of the craft marked the return of the glow, which I noticed as soon as Elliott closed the case in which ET was packed in ice (check this out if you see it again). Any other opinions? Also, another question: is ET an old botanist, as the blurb on the paperback novelization states, or is he a young child? His (are we assuming somehting when when say 'his' and 'he'????) behavior is definitely "childlike", the way he says his name repeatedly and shrieks "ET go home"; but perhaps I am imposing human psychology on an alien as my housemates repeatedly say. Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr