ET phone home Family classic From the Master of Film!

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2015)

ET The Extra Terrestrial is a wonderful magical emotional powerful movie all about loss hope sadness redemption and wonder really wonderfully enchanting I will talk about the direction and score now! The Direction captures the film from the children's point of view for the majority of the film it really captures the magic and happiness the children feel as they bond with ET it really matters that the film is captured from Elliot's point of view because he needs a friend and feels lonely scared frightened about his childhood because his parents are divorced and he does not have no friends to talk to no bonding connection so to speak until ET comes in and changes the family almost like Mary Poppins in a way the friendship grows and develops into something very magical and poignant, when the threat of ET possibly dying is discovered the emotion that Elliot goes through is so touching the scene where ET is in the box and Elliot explains his love and affection for ET is heartbreaking helped by John Williams's Oscar winning score just captures the mood of the film beautifully when the Bicycle flies over the moon is the greatest shot in film and the score helps Elliot and ET fly over the moon it really does John Williams made that film what it is today obviously The Master of Film did too but still the movie should have won Best Picture not Gandhi! The score's melodic material is so wonderful heartfelt and really magical almost like a lullaby at the end when the threat of ET dying looms it really is special and like the last 20 minutes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind John Williams's score ends the film as the Children get ET back to his spaceship and the whole sequence as ET says goodbye to the children is scored beautifully and the whole Elliot hugging ET and the spaceship flying away and the family looking on as it does so is all scored by John Williams's magical finale literally the piece is 15 minutes long and covers the whole last sequence of the movie every frame is scored to perfection and if you tried to take the score out of ET the power would not be there the emotional pull would not be there particularly in that last 15 sequence! ET is one of the greatest family movies ever made it can be put on a List with Back to The Future, Mary Poppins, Shrek, Who Framed Roger Rabbit the list goes on!