JFC i just reckoned Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 47 YEARS AGO!
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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.
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back in Indiana, and Roy’s domestic chaos still fills me with dread.
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Dharmsala, India
this isn't even peak Orientalism for Spielberg. the depths he sunk to in the Indiana Jones movies is now legendary.
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AT A SECRET UN MEETING SOMEWHERE
i have no idea how many times i have watched this movie and i just noticed the crew that Roy ends up joining is in this meeting sitting in a balcony in their flashy yellow jumpsuits. i finally noticed thanks to the blonde lady’s beehive.
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the irony of not knowing they are asking the state to Stop & Be Friendly.
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GOLDSTONE OBSERVATORY
so upon announcing to my brood that i was rewatching ―yet again― THING1 told me that he found out Spielberg’s father was a software developer and his mother a musician.
this movie is literally a love song to both his parents (software was developed to play the famous encounter music at the end).
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it’s also a magnanimous fuck you who those who think science nor tech depend on the Liberal Arts.
without the translator/mapper, played by Bob Balaban, there is no movie. each major plot point is moved forward by his intervention.
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for the longest time i confused Wyoming’s Devil’s Peak with New Mexico’s Enchanted Mesa. it's wild that the United States is so big it has these amazing geological outcrops.
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THE BABY ABDUCTION SCENE
just pure nightmare fuel.
that is all.
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seriously, the screws unscrewing themselves and all the gadgets turning on by themselves and then fucking Barry going in thru the dog door laughing?
nightmare fuel.
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this scene with the government guys, setting up the stage for plausible deniability?
so enraging.
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i just realized the crew they have prepared, look like out of a cult.
what's the name of that death cult that they all offed themselves in their jumpsuits and Adidas?
