Through_The_Children__E.T.

Through The Children: E.T. Directed by Spielberg from a screenplay by Melissa Mathison and produced by Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is the thrilling and deeply moving story of the special friendship that develops between Elliott, a very accepting and open-minded lonely young boy living in a suburban California community, and a wise visitor from another planet who becomes lost on Earth. As Elliott attempts to help his extra-terrestrial companion contact his home planet so that he might be rescued, they must elude scientists and government agents narrow-minded and determined to apprehend the alien for their own judgmental purposes. This film clearly criticizes society’s narrow-mindedness and shows how it can cause harm and destruction, while emphasizing, through the children, acceptance. The first example that the filmmaker uses to deliver his point happens slowly through out the first few scenes of the movie. In the first scene, E.T. has been stranded in a new world, knowing no one. In his first contact with the human species, E.T. was chased, frightened, and scared into hiding. This paints for the viewers a portrait of the life E.T. now faces. He is caught up in this world where scientists and government agents will try to capture et, elliot, children, scene, back, through, shows, first, close-mindedness, acceptance, home, open-mindedness, now, mother, filmmaker, effects, boy, another, try, things, shed, scientist, save, police, out, new, movie, michael, lives, illustrate, house, film, even, dying, clearly