From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxi!otto
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: ET *** SPOILER *** ET
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.173
Posted: Fri Jun 25 00:50:32 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 03:43:16 1982


I thought that the "hokey" apparatus used by ET was one of the best touches
in the movie.  It was clearly a children's film that adults could enjoy
as well.  The idea that an intersteller communications device could be
concocted from a combination of a Speak-n-spell, fork, string, aluminum-
covered umbrella, coffee can, etc. is clearly one that a child could
easily want to accept.  Didn't you, as a child, think that TV's could
be constructed from cardboard boxes with "something special" added to
them, or that an ordinary blanked if held up "just the right way" under
the light of the moon could turn it into a flying carpet or invunerable
armor?  I know I did, and the device ET created had *exactly* the same
feel.  It took me right back to my childhood.  No wonder Spielberg is
now considered the best director working in the US today. Right on!!

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
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