Chapter 66: The Premiere of "ET".
Although "ET" as the opening film at the Academy Awards gave many participating filmmakers a great shock, everyone did not realize what kind of miracle this film would create.
On June 12, 1982, the premiere of "ET" was held at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and Wang Jie did not attend, but let the producer Audrey Hepburn and the distributor Disney Company take full responsibility. At the same time, this day is also the time for the simultaneous release of "ET" around the world.
Because "ET" is directed by Wang Jie, many Hollywood filmmakers have come to cheer, of course, mainly to observe their opponents in order to steal their teachers.
At the premiere of "ET", Spielberg also made a special trip to attend, even if he did not receive an invitation. Spielberg has always been obsessed with "ET", and he hopes that he can easily get the rights to remake the film after Wang Jie messes up the film.
After the cast and crew were interviewed, the film was officially screened, and the story of the film slowly unfolded to the audience.
The music sounded low, and what appeared on the screen was the corner of the forest at night, the boundless leaves were swaying, incomparably depressed, an owl standing on the branch, its big eyes were like two light bulbs, the wind was blowing, the forest was reckless, and the low clarinet accompaniment, the screen suddenly looked a little bleak.
The cinema suddenly became silent.
The audience already knew that this movie was a warm family movie, but such a beginning was obviously unexpected to them.
Along with these still-life, cool-toned shots, strings of subtitles begin to appear.
Writer: William Rothschild Wang, Music: John Williams, Cinematography: Allen Daviau, Starring: Luca Dottie, Audrey Hepburn, Drew Barrymore, Jing Wu......
Director: William Rothschild King.
The subtitles slowly fade away, and the forest scene in the picture slowly ends.
Next, a bright moon hangs high in the sky. It was a full moon that only appeared at midnight. The picture slowly moves downward, and what appears in the depths of the lens is a blurry object of dissatisfaction with the light point of the whole body. At this time, what appeared in front of the audience's eyes was a huge flying saucer. The hatch of the flying saucer opened, and rows of vaguely outlined things slowly came out of it, they were so short that they could not be seen in the bushes at all, only the bushes made a burst of shaking. On the screen, a set of panning shots appear, showing the outline of the flying saucer from all sides.
Hordes of aliens entered the grass, and the woods were filled with mist, making everything seem mysterious and mysterious.
In a room in a small town, several children gather around a table to play cards. My mother was cleaning up the house, and the TV in the room was broadcasting the news.
Such a quiet family scene is in stark contrast to the tense scene in the forest just now, which relaxes the audience's tense heartstrings a lot.
Several children were playing cards, and Elliott was kept out. Michael, the eldest, sent Elliott out to buy something to eat, and Elliott pouted and walked out the door. Elliott put on his shoes, pushed open the gate, and squeaked away on his cart.
Soon, Elliott came back with a pizza. He parked the cart in the middle of the yard and took out a box of pizza from it.
There was a sparse sound, followed by a heavy wheezing sound, which grew louder and louder, as if it were getting closer to Elliott. Elliott apparently noticed the sound as well, and he turned his face away, picked up the pizza, and approached the door of the storage room step by step, poked his head out to look inside for a moment, then let out a scream, threw the pizza away, and ran quickly to the room.
When he stammered to tell his mother that there was someone in the pantry in the yard, Mary immediately walked out with the children with all kinds of tools. They searched inside the storage room for a while, and they didn't find anyone inside. Michael begins to laugh at Victor, as do the other children.
During the night, Elliot was awakened by the sound outside the window, and he got out of bed and walked through the yard to the cornfield with a suit on his clothes. Elliot shivered and tried to leave, but as soon as he turned around, there was a sparse noise from the depths of the cornfield.
Elliott turned on the flashlight and burrowed into the corn's.
Elliot scurried through the cornfield, toward the place where the sound had come from, and as she got closer, the sound grew louder and louder, as if it were a whimper, as if it were sighing. On the screen, the marching little Victor suddenly stopped, and the sparse and trivial voices also stopped.
What appears in the movie screen is a long back of the head. Elliott looked at the back of his head and stretched out his left hand to cover his mouth.
The back of the head slowly turned. The face of the alien ET is shown to the audience. Smooth face, big eyes that occupy almost half of the facial area, pure eyes, a corn in the mouth, the mouth is twisted and deformed. Then, ET suddenly grinned and showed a very funny expression, this smile, some flattering, some reluctant, some flattering, some exaggerated.
"Hahahaha!" burst into laughter in the cinema. When the audience saw ET smiling so cutely in front of the camera, the film suddenly became incredibly bright, even though the night was so dark and the cornfield was so eerie on the screen.
"It's so cute!" at this time, some female viewers pointed to ET on the screen and said loudly.
And the children in the movie theater also broke free from their parents' arms and clapped their hands vigorously.
"Ahh
"Ahh
"Hahahaha. The laughter from the audience was even louder.
Then, the two of them fled at the same time, Elliott threw away his flashlight and turned around and ran towards his home, while ET ran towards the forest in the mountains in a hurry, bumping into the corn as he ran, and every time he hit the corn, he would hold his head and exclaim, "Oh!"
The atmosphere in the movie theater was bright and relaxed, and both children and adults laughed heartily.
The film continues, "Old Guise, do you believe there are monsters?" Elliot asks the old hunter in town.
"Monsters, do you believe in monsters!?" the old hunter laughs as he looks at Elliot in the movie.
Little Victor nodded and said, "I believe." ”
"Believe it, why?" said the old hunter with a smile and shook his head.
Elliot said solemnly, "Because I've seen this monster!"
Hahahaha, the old hunter laughed, and then pointed to the reckless forest and said to little Victor: "Let me tell you, in this forest, there lives a monster, this monster likes to eat children the most, if a person looks into his eyes, this person's soul will be taken away by it." ”
The old hunter's words gave Elliot a shiver, and he got up and creaked out of the forest with his cart.
"Goodbye!" said Elliot without forgetting to say goodbye to the old hunter.
"Goodbye!" the old hunter smiled, then turned and disappeared into the forest.
Elliot was lying on a large chaise longue with a quilt over her body. With a large flashlight in his hand, he stared intently at the storage room not far away. After a while, Elliot was in the recliner, slowly closing his eyes, and then snoring.
On the ground, a long, large shadow approached Elliott's recliner little by little. The shadow staggered, with a large head and two pointed ears that stood tall on the air. The pointy-eared shadow approached and finally stopped in front of Elliott. Elliot seemed to sense something different, and opened his eyes suddenly. When he saw ET, he opened his mouth wide and wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound. ET didn't know where he picked up a large bird's nest, and those two pointed ears were two leaves stuck behind the bird's nest. Wearing a bird's nest crookedly and a feather sticking to his nose, ET's cute shape makes the movie theater a sea of joy.
ET looked at Elliott with that classic hilarious expression, and then he reached for Elliott. Elliot didn't understand what it meant, but mechanically reached out, and ET let go of his palm and placed the nut he was holding in Elliott's hand.
Elliott brings ET to the room, where the two meet for the first time, feeling new to each other.
ET's clumsy movement and cute expression made the movie theater let out a sigh of admiration, and people looked at this short little guy with infinite anticipation in the corners of their eyes, as if they had seen those strange dreams of childhood. The light ET, walking around Little Victor's room, didn't have to perform at all, just appeared in the camera, and it completely made all the audience feel great pleasure.
Elliott did not go to school the next day and stayed at home. He plays with ET in the room, and ET also shows off his powerful alien abilities like people. He could make the contents of the room fly, he could make the water melt into ice in an instant, and to the audience's exclamation, it could give life to the withered pot on the windowsill of Elliott's room.
In the eyes of the audience, this little alien seems to have unlimited potential in his body.
The rest of the story is completely warm. Elliott introduces ET to her sister Amy and her brother Michael. The camaraderie between the three children and E.T. fills the screen and makes the cinema quiet.
The plot continues, and ET begins to learn to speak, but when he says the first word, the people in the movie theater cover their mouths and let out a cry of surprise as if they see their children babbling, and many people applaud.
The first word ET learns is "home".
But there are also some scenes in the movie that make the audience uneasy. The policemen who were looking for ET did not give up their search, and they set their sights on the small town, little by little, towards the Little Vick. However, this uneasiness is overshadowed by the joyful life of ET and the children.
There are many very interesting scenes in the film, but the most popular with the audience may be the scene where ET drinks beer and gets drunk. It was wearing a big shirt, and it was staggering and burping, and it was dangling from room to room, even in front of Mary, who was so busy with chores that Mary turned a blind eye.
If these small bridges make ET's cute image gradually plump, then some of the later bridges highlight ET's cleverness. ET learned the usefulness of telephones and radios by watching television, and it began to make communication tools. The audience laughed knowingly as they watched the little ET drag a large team of parts into the room with their clothes, and a close-up shot made their hearts hang: the pot of previously bright flowers began to wither. This can't help but make the audience worry about ET.
The communicator is ready, and Elliott and Michael are tasked with taking ET out of the house.
When Halloween arrives, Elliott and Michael, after putting on ET's makeup, successfully trick Mary and head in the direction of the forest.
Elliott rode his bike and E.T. towards the forest, the light dimmed and twilight began to fall. At night, the reckless forest seems so mysterious and secluded. Elliott rides his bike on a rugged mountain road, and ET sits in the blue lane at the front of the bike, wearing a large white cloak.
The most beautiful shot in the whole movie came as promised.
Elliot rode his bike through the mountain roads, which became more and more rugged. Ahead was a huge tree trunk lying across the road, and beyond that was a small cliff. The wheels of the bicycle spun rapidly towards the trunk of the tree.
"It's going to crash!" Alex exclaimed.
Just as the car was about to hit the trunk, suddenly, the front wheels slowly lifted off the ground. Elliott's bike slowly soared into the sky and slowly climbed. Elliott pedaled the car, and the trees next to him grew shorter and shorter, and the sky was getting closer and closer. The wind ruffled his hair, and this time, they flew literally. Elliott flies through the sky. The car grew taller and higher, and a huge moon hung high in the air, and the silhouette of a bicycle passed in front of it.
"It's so beautiful!" Spielberg stared at the shot on the screen, dumbfounded.
"Oh my God!"
"It's so beautiful!"
The people in the cinema were all so stunned by this shot, they stood there, forgetting to applaud, forgetting to cheer, staring intently, unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
This shot has completely conquered the audience and completely shocked their hearts.
The forest was quiet, only the breath of the forest. Elliott and ET sat side by side on the cliff, and in front of them was a vast starry sky.
At the same time, in Elliott's house, the sheriff and his people set it up all around.
The next morning, when Elliott woke up, he found that E.T. was missing. He stumbled home and told Michael the news.
Michael rushes out of the room on his bike, only to find someone following him. When Michael shook off the stalking police and went to the forest to look around, the old hunter was sitting at the entrance to the forest and smoking. He stopped Michael and asked him what he was doing. Michael said to look for something. The old hunter smiled and searched with him.
Two people found ET in a river, and a bear was getting closer to ET little by little. The old hunter shoots the bear away, and then helps Michael save ET, who is already white and dying.
Michael takes E.T. home, and Mary takes them when she sees her children with a completely white alien. On the screen, the police barged in. Police cars roared in the town, and teams of police and scientists in biochemical suits surrounded the house.
They set up a laboratory in the room and pulled the ET onto the test bench. On the screen, the instrument was screaming. After a sustained beep, ET's eyes gradually closed. Scientists pronounced ET dead.
The audience all stood up, staring intently at the screen, muttering ET's name as if praying.
On the screen, the scientists dismantle the instruments, and someone pushes over a frozen box and puts the ET in the bag. Elliott walked over to the box to say goodbye to ET, he pulled the bag open and stroked ET's face one last time. Behind him, the pot of flowers that had been placed on the windowsill, withered flowers, gradually bloomed.
ET, who was lying in the bag, suddenly had a red light in his chest, and then opened his eyes.
Elliott and Michael took ET out, and they left the cops behind on their bikes, and every time they broke through the police, the audience erupted in applause.
At the edge of the forest, the old sheriff led a team of policemen to set up the last line of defense, and they had blocked the road to the forest.
Elliott and Michael stopped in front of them. The old sheriff smiled triumphantly as he motioned for the officers to catch the children.
Just when the audience was worried, a shotgun was put against the old sheriff's head. The old hunter smiled and asked the sheriff to get out of the way, and the sheriff had to comply.
Elliott and Michael enter the forest with ET. Flying saucers fall from the sky, and the hatch opens. One by one, ET said goodbye to the people. It walked into the ship with the pot of flowers in its hand.
The flying saucer slowly lifted into the air and finally disappeared into the vast night sky.
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