I’m with you. I’m 54 and seen many of these films at the drive-in or at the theatre. What a magical time to be alive.

The time of artists, not agendas.

@@Cre80s yep. Film is supposed to be a medium for artistic expression. Nowadays, it's all about one agenda i.e. money-making and nothing else.

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@Mr Right Star War is for thumbsuckers, Close Encounters is for people with brains, and I knew this at 8 years old. I saw both in the theater when they came out (I saw Star Wars opening day). I liked Star Wars, I was blown away by Close Encounters. The audience for Star Wars had a blast, as did the audiences for Superman (which came out the next year), Raiders, E.T., all of those blockbusters. The audiences at Close Encounters (I saw it three times) went through an experience that left the entire theatre walking out in a daze, but like a kind daze, like Christmas time, I can't even explain it. And the communicating with an alien ship through music is beyond brilliant. Please, don't embarrass yourself. You can keep your Star Wars and your ten million hilariously dopey sequels, I didn't even like Empire that much when it came out, I hated Yoda. Seriously. I just saw both movies recently! Star Wars looked as one-dimensional as ever, Close Encounters was as entrancing and as multi-dimensional as ever. End of discussion, geek.

Those 2 films definitely placed him in the spotlight, but 1941 switched it off. Raiders is what cemented his reputation, and from then on it was pretty much smooth sailing.

@@aliensoup2420 "1941" didn't "switch it off". It was a bomb, but nobody thought Spielberg was "over", any more than people thought Scorsese was "over" after "New York New York". The only person who was "over" during that era was Cimino. When "Raiders" came out, the press wasn't "here's Spielberg, the comeback kid". "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" - which was rereleased in the Special Edition, remember? - were still very much in the forefront of people's minds. And no, it wasn't "smooth sailing" after that. He had more big hits, but never any hip ones, lol.

I don't agree. I love spielberg but I never grew up with Close Encounters unlike ET and Jurassic and finally saw it in my late teenage years. It didn't have any impact on me and the ending was a little wrong (Spielberg even agrees now). It's nowhere near as influential or as much fun as Star Wars

@@TTM9691 Inside hollywood a bomb means you're in dangerous ground. He was not cemented until Raiders. Until then he was the golden boy who made Jaws, but it may have been a fluke hit coz of Verna Fields.

Someone said it sounds like _The Goonies._

Someone in another comment said it may have become _The Goonies._ Too bad I never saw it as a teen, but there were so many movies of the 1980s I did see.

Goonies

I think he was being serious. Bizarre.

@@user-oc5xt7nl7e he who

Your best takeaway?

@@mortalclown3812 No, just an observation.... Now in regards to my comment, your best takeaway??

@maxwesty I've done a ton of coke, never made me stop blinking.. I'm not talking about later interviews, talking about this one.....are you guys produced in a moron factory??

I think he's wearing contact lenses?

He's an alien.

He never talks about it but the French Character was nothing more than a substitute for French UFO investigator Jacques Vallee. A very well known UFOlogist in that world. Any nerd UFO aficionado would know who he is. Lacombe is Jacques Vallee in every way. Francois Truffaut was fabulous in the role.

It was originally titled "A Boy's Life" and did eventually become "ET".

@@aliensoup2420 Yes but I don't think he already had the script for E.T. back in '78, did he? E.T. was several years later and was loosely based on the "Night Skies" project that never got made. I'm referring to when he tells Snyder that his next project is about "little children in the afternoon". Maybe it never got out of pre-production...

@@atroyz Yeah, "A Boy's Life" was the working title for "ET". Now I'm beginning to wonder if JJ Abram's "Super 8" was not derived from Spielberg's 'Night Skies" since they both involve kids and Aliens, and Spielberg was the producer.

i believe the rest of the project moved into the goonies.

@@karlkarlos3545 _The Goonies_ sounds plausible. There was a script about a boy and his alien friend floating around Hollywood by a writer/filmmaker from India. So it would be good to know whether or not Spielberg saw it before making _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,_ and the progression of his ideas leading to the script. Although he says _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ could lend itself to a sequel, he doesn't talk in this interview about leaving the alien behind. I'd like to know when that became the thing.

To me he looks like Bono.

True but because Steven diversified his resume he's going down a legend while people will only know George for Star Wars nothing wrong with that by the way but Steven to me is more of a artist in it's true form

The Blu Ray is cheap to buy...

@@bobrew461 they deserve to make money on it - even all these years later.

@@mortalclown3812 Kids today: they want everything to be free!

Johnny Carson couldn't stand him.

I think he just played dense to get more out of his guests. But ya. I hear ya.