
#87 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
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Playing With Our Perspective, Right?
I think the trick is that we just show him as mysterious. We don't realize, I'm not even sure the grows a heart. He revealed he had one. But Spielberg reveals. Oh, no, he's a good guy. You know what I mean? He's a guy using the faculties of society in place that he has to learn about this stuff. There's no other thing he could belong to where he could do this. So the twist is he might not be as bad after all this as as we were led to believe.
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