You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Duel TV Movie The Sugarland Express Empire of the Sun War of the Worlds As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. Planet of the Apes The Color Purple Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Ronnie Neary Melinda Dillon Jillian Guiler Bob Balaban Project Leader Warren J.
Jean Claude Cary Guffey Barry Guiler Shawn Bishop Brad Neary Adrienne Campbell Silvia Neary Justin Dreyfuss Toby Neary Lance Henriksen Edit Storyline Two parallel stories are told. Edit Details Official Sites: English French Spanish Hindi. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The musical score heard coming from the television when Roy's kids are watching The Ten Commandments is actually an original piece of music John Williams created for the film called "The Eleventh Commandment". Two of the missing pilots were indeed Captains in the Marine Corps. I don't understand these fractions.
What's one third of sixty? And now another train is coming Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake Crazy Credits Near the end of the credits it starts to reads as follows: EDWARDS, Veterinarian of Gillette, Wyoming, was in attendance at all times to aid the filmmakers and the anesthetist in proper treatment of the animals used, and at no time were the animals harmed or mistreated in any way. It is basically Spielberg's final minute re-edit of the original version plus some sequences from the "Special Edition".
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The Neary family's alternate longer introduction. The 5-second flyover of the power company truck. The scientists discovery of the freighter in the Gobi desert is included. Instead, he and the government spend 15 years trying to make contact. Spielberg and Schrader experienced creative differences, hiring John Hill to rewrite.
I wanted to have Mr. David Giler performed a rewrite; Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins , [7] friends of Spielberg, suggested the plot device of a kidnapped child.
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Spielberg then began to write the script. In the end, Spielberg received solo writing credit. Hynek felt that "even though the film is fiction, it's based for the most part on the known facts of the UFO mystery, and it certainly catches the flavor of the phenomenon. Spielberg was under enormous pressure to make another blockbuster after Jaws , but he decided to make a UFO movie. He put his career on the line. Early in pre-production, Spielberg hired the film title designer Dan Perri to design a logotype for Close Encounters.
Perri, who had previously worked on The Exorcist and Taxi Driver , produced a logotype in Handel Gothic typeface, with only a script to work from. Delighted with the result, Spielberg applied the logo to all production stationery and crew shirts. Unusually in filmmaking, Spielberg carried enough influence to maintain creative control over the film's entire branding and asked Perri to design the advertising campaign and title sequence for Close Encounters based on his logo.
Perri later went on to design titles for a number of other major Hollywood pictures, including Star Wars , Raging Bull , and Airplane! Principal photography began on May 16, , though an Associated Press report in August had suggested filming would start in late The home where Barry was abducted is located outside the town of Fairhope, Alabama. Spielberg called Close Encounters "twice as bad and twice as expensive [as Jaws ]". Matters worsened when Columbia Pictures experienced financial difficulties.
A large portion of the sound stage in Alabama was damaged because of a lightning strike. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond said that, during the time of shooting for the film, Spielberg got more ideas by watching movies every night which in turn extended the production schedule because he was continually adding new scenes to be filmed. In her book You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again , producer Julia Phillips wrote highly profane remarks about Spielberg, Zsigmond, and Truffaut, because she was fired during post-production due to a cocaine addiction.
Phillips blamed it on Spielberg being a perfectionist. Douglas Trumbull was the visual effects supervisor , while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens. His work helped lead to advances in motion control photography. The look of the ship was inspired by an oil refinery Spielberg saw at night in India.
One of the UFO models was an oxygen mask with lights attached to it, used because of its irregular shape. As a subtle in-joke, Dennis Muren who had just finished working on Star Wars put a small R2-D2 model onto the underside of the mothership. Since Close Encounters was filmed anamorphically , the visual effects sequences were shot on 70 mm film , which has greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the production, so that when the miniature effects were combined with full-sized elements through an optical printer , the effects footage would still appear clear and sharp despite having lost a generation's worth of visual data.
A test reel using computer-generated imagery was created for the UFOs, but Spielberg found it would be too expensive and ineffective since CGI was in its infancy in the mids. The small aliens in the final scenes were played by fifty local six-year-old girls in Mobile, Alabama. That decision was requested by Spielberg because he felt "girls move more gracefully than boys". However, Rambaldi successfully used puppetry to depict two of the aliens, the first being a marionette for the tall alien that is the first to be seen emerging from the mothership in what was originally a test shot but eventually used in the final film and an articulated puppet for the alien that communicates via hand signals near the end of the film.
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Close Encounters is the first collaboration between film editor Michael Kahn and Spielberg. Their working relationship has continued for the rest of Spielberg's films. Spielberg stated that no film he has ever made since has been as hard to edit as the last 25 minutes of Close Encounters and he and Kahn would go through thousands of feet of footage just to find the right shots for the end sequence.
When Kahn and Spielberg completed the first cut of the film, Spielberg was dissatisfied, feeling "there wasn't enough wow-ness". Spielberg also took 7. The score for the film was composed, conducted and produced by John Williams , who had previously worked on Spielberg's Jaws. Williams wrote over examples of the iconic five-tone motif for Close Encounters —the five tones are used by scientists to communicate with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language —before Spielberg chose the one incorporated into the film's signature theme.
Spielberg initially included Cliff Edwards ' original "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio in the closing credits , but after a Dallas preview where several members of the audience audibly snickered at the inclusion, the song was dropped and replaced with Williams' orchestral version of it. Studios in Burbank, California.
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Williams was nominated for two Academy Awards in , one for his score to Star Wars and one for his score to Close Encounters. Film critic Charlene Engel observed Close Encounters "suggests that humankind has reached the point where it is ready to enter the community of the cosmos. While it is a computer which makes the final musical conversation with the alien guests possible, the characteristics bringing Neary to make his way to Devils Tower have little to do with technical expertise or computer literacy.
These are virtues taught in schools that will be evolved in the 21st century. The film portrays new technologies as a natural and expected outcome of human development and indication of health and growth. Other critics found a variety of Judeo-Christian analogies.
Climbing Devils Tower behind the faltering Jillian, Neary exhorts Jillian to keep moving and not to look back, similar to Lot 's wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. Roy's wife Ronnie attempts to hide the sunburn caused by Roy's exposure to the UFOs and wants him to forget his encounter with them. She is embarrassed and bewildered by what has happened to him and desperately wants her ordinary life back. The expression of his lost life is seen when he is sculpting a huge model of Devils Tower in his living room, with his family deserting him.
Close Encounters also studies the form of "youth spiritual yearning". Barry Guiler, the unfearing child who refers to the UFOs and their paraphernalia as "toys" although that was unscripted, with the child being drawn to smile by being shown toys offstage , serves as a motif for childlike innocence and openness in the face of the unknown.
Roy, Jillian Guiler and a third invitee, Larry Butler, climb the mountain pursued by government helicopters spraying sleeping gas. Larry stops to rest, is gassed, and falls into a deep sleep. In a interview, Spielberg stated that he made Close Encounters when he did not have children, and if he were making it today, he would never have had Neary leave his family and go on the mother ship. The film was originally to be released in summer , but was pushed back to November because of the various problems during production. The film premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on November 16, [31] and played there and at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles prior to its national release on December 14 when it opened in theatres.
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