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#87 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Opening Sequences in Movies

When I was a kid, I love the novelization for this, for this movie. It just taught me like what opening sequences could be in a movie. And everything I wrote after that point was trying to rip off ET for his like alien being chased or something like that. But I see these so often because most of their culture. There's no twists and turns. When I ever I look at the ET one it's a short story unto itself. You could almost do it save the cap sheet for it almost.

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