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Rediscover the magic of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece with this superb ET Film Poster which will take you back to your childhood!
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Description of this ET Film Poster
ET the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply ET) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an alien, nicknamed ET, who has been abandoned on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help ET find his way home. The film stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore.
The concept of the film is based on an imaginary friend that Spielberg created after his parents divorced. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story based on the unrealized Night Skies. In less than two months, Mathison wrote the first version of the screenplay, entitled ET and Me, which would be rewritten twice. The project was rejected by Columbia Pictures, which doubted its commercial potential. Universal Pictures ended up purchasing the script for a million dollars. Filming took place from September to December 1981 on a budget of $10.5 million. Unlike most films, ET was filmed in rough chronological order to facilitate compelling emotional performances from the young actors. The film's animatronics were designed by Carlo Rambaldi.
ET premiered as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 1982, and was released in the United States on June 11, 1982. The film was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the most successful film profitable of all time, a record it held for eleven years until Spielberg's Jurassic Park surpassed it in 1993. ET was widely acclaimed by critics and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It received nine nominations at the 55th Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing, and also won five Saturn Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. The film was re-released in 1985 and again in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, with altered shots, visual effects and additional scenes. It was also re-released in IMAX on August 12, 2022, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. In 1994, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Aliens secretly visit Earth at night to collect plant specimens from a California forest. One of them separates from the group, fascinated by the distant lights of the city. US government vehicles arrive and pursue the frightened creature. The other aliens leave, abandoning him on Earth. In a nearby San Fernando Valley neighborhood, ten-year-old Elliott Taylor's suspicions are aroused when he throws a baseball into a tool shed and the ball is returned. Later that night, Elliott returns with a flashlight and discovers the creature among the corn stalks. He screams and flees the scene.
Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves a trail of candy to lure the alien into his house. Before going to bed, he realizes that the alien is imitating his movements. The next morning, Elliott pretends to be sick to stay home and play with him. He can "feel" the alien's thoughts and emotions, as evidenced when the alien accidentally opens an umbrella, startling him and simultaneously dragging Elliott into several rooms.
Later that day, Elliott introduces the alien to his older brother Michael and seven-year-old sister Gertie, deciding to hide it from their mother, Mary. When the children ask the alien about its origins, it shows them by levitating several balls, representing its planetary system, and demonstrates its powers by reviving dead chrysanthemums. He demonstrates his healing power, thanks to his luminous fingertip, on a small cut on Elliott's finger.
The next day at school, Elliott begins to feel a much stronger empathic connection with the alien, including showing signs of intoxication (because the alien is at Elliott's house, where he drinks beer and watches the television) and freeing the frogs in his biology class. As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man on TV, Elliott kisses a girl he likes the same way and is sent to the principal's office.
The alien calls himself "ET", after reading a comic book where a distressed Buck Rogers calls for help by building a makeshift communications device, and is inspired to try it himself. ET gets Elliott's help to build a device to "phone home" using a Speak & Spell. Michael notices that ET's health is declining and that Elliott refers to himself as "we". All the while, the boys are unaware that ET is being followed by government agents and that all three of them are being spied on.
On Halloween night, Michael and Elliott disguise ET as a ghost to sneak him out. Elliott and ET go to the forest, where they manage to settle down. The next day, Elliott wakes up in the field and discovers that ET has disappeared. Elliott returns home to find his family worried. Michael discovers ET dying near a culvert and takes him home to Elliott, also dying. Mary is horrified to discover her son's illness and the alien dying, just as a group of government agents dressed in biohazard suits and led by "Keys" invade the house.
Scientists set up a laboratory in the house, asking Michael, Mary and Gertie what they know about ET. While the scientists treat Elliott and ET, the mental connection between Elliott and ET disappears. ET appears to die while Elliott recovers. Elliott is carried away and screams that the doctors are killing ET as they try to revive him. When the doctors declare ET dead, Michael discovers that the chrysanthemums that ET previously revived are dying again. As Elliott recovers, the scientists first return him to his family, but Keys leaves him alone with ET Elliott gives him a heartbreaking goodbye and tells him he loves him before closing the case. Soon after, the light from ET's heart begins to shine, and Elliott notices the chrysanthemum coming back to life and opens the file. ET revives and tells Elliott that his people are back.
Elliott and Michael steal the van ET had been loaded into and a chase ensues, with Michael's friends joining them on bikes to escape the authorities. Suddenly, faced with a police blockade, ET helps them escape by using his telekinesis to lift them into the air, just in time, towards the forest, as he had done to Elliott before.
Standing near the spaceship, ET's heart glows as he prepares to return home, while Mary, Gertie, and Keys make their appearance. ET says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, who gives him the flower he revived. Before boarding the spaceship, he kisses Elliott and says "I'll be there", pointing his glowing finger at Elliott's forehead. He picks up the chrysanthemum and boards the spaceship. As the others watch it take off, the ship leaves a rainbow in the sky.
