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

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Gold Doesn't Go More Than Eight Minutes

The movie never goes more than eight minutes beyond that without letting us back into what's happening with the agents. I think they really have to crank up the tension and wait and whatever way they can see. There's a lot of craft on display and cranking up the tension. And then there's the one thing that it always stuck with me the line keys has to Elliot at that one point where he says, you know, I don't think it was left here intentionally. But his being here as a miracle is the best anybody could do.

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