JFC i just reckoned Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 47 YEARS AGO!
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JFC i just reckoned Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 47 YEARS AGO!
am feeling devastatingly old.
in 1970s Puerto Rico, we’d get USA #movies 6 months to a year later due to the delay in subtitles and dubbing.
CEOT3K was released november 1977. almost 6 months earlier a quirky little film of space cowboys was released in only a few theaters across the USA.
so i was closer to 12 years old when i finally sat in that Mayagüez Mall theater to watch Star Wars, then, Close Encounters.
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the baby from Close Encounter of the Third Kind has two kids of his own now
Former 'Close Encounters' Child Star Cary Guffey: 'I Still Get Fan Mail' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zZXZEnHx0
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so i went down a rabbit hole trying to find the original 1978 trailer and can’t.
this is the damage to historical archiving done by the Mickey Mouse extension to copyright law and the DMCA.
Puerto Rico is treated as an international market. the trailer i saw as a child for Close Encounters of the Third Kind was revolutionary because it had no voiceover and showed you just enough to plant the seeds of terror & excitement.
this isn't it, but it’s close:
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since this scene is now playing on repeat in my head, y’all have to suffer too:
The Landing Of The Mothership
Close Encounters Of The Third KindBTW if it started with Jaws, Spielberg established himself as the master salesman with how he used Ray-Ban sunglasses as one of the important plot points in this scene.
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guess which movie your auntifa is gonna start watching in a few moments.
unfortunately, it is not the original theatrical cut, but that’ll do Pig, that’ll do.
yeah, yeah, yeah, i’ll use a hastag for the uncultured bores out there that don't wanna read my braindroppings.
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coffee fried apple pie blanky at my corner of the sofa -
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OPENING!
one of the things Spielberg does incredibly well in this movie, but especially during the opening credits is the use of SILENCE.
silence is integral to the sound effects in this movie. it’s what builds not just tension but horror.
but what am noticing with this opening is how JOHN WILLIAMS’ score makes him part of the sound effects team.
this opening is absolutely a spin on the opening of STAR WARS which was released 5 months prior.
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SONORA DESERT
am just seconds in this movie and have so many cultural references to point out, but this one is not pre but post release.
i’ve posted about the Mexican rock band, Café Tacuba before
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113422665620665511now am wondering if their song EL APARATO is a reference to the opening scenes of this movie. a Mexican guy decribes his contact as “Una luz muy bonita”. am almost certain that's a lyric in the song.
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it’s still a massive flex to not only have François Truffaut as one of your main characters but to also have all of his scenes in French NOT subtitled
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El sol salió anoche y me cantó.
El sol salió anoche y me cantó. -
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AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
love, Love, LOVE how they use the filtered sounds coming from the airplane reports. the ambient sounds coming in from the the airplanes and all the people talking over each other was very fresh and new in film-making.
it’s amazing how many techniques taken for granted in film-making today can be traced back to Spielberg movies.
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MUNCIE, INDIANA
this is the scene that really cements Spielberg as a master of horror.
this scene was so seared in my brain, i have forever been scared of American houses in the middle of nowhere.
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SOMEWHERE IN AN INDIANA SUBURB
you know this movie is a fantasy because Richard Dreyfuss is married to Terry Garr.
that said, the chaos of that family room is peak 1970s Sears-Roebuck catalog.
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another thing about this movie: the product placement was just out of control and highly criticized at the time.
AND YET!
it’s why it’s such an important cultural artifact. it’s a true snapshot of that era.
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the mailboxes opening up and then the light from above and everything floating inside the truck. just reckoned they were trying to vacuum him into the spaceship.
seriously, Spielberg makes horror stories.
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i have never watched, and will never watch, Schindler’s List because i cannot imagine it not being a horror story
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only Steven Spielberg can make crickets sound creepy.
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darkness swalling up the toll booth, like in a Zurbarán makes this movie a perfect sample of neobaroque aesthetics.
the clouds, after the spaceships disappear into it is straight out of El Greco.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies
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Gobi Desert, Mongolia
i don't remember the flags in these trucks being of the United Nations.
these are the little ways Spielberg spells out conspiracies and i appreciate that: show don't tell.
