He can talk now.īARRYMORE: (As Gertie) E.T., can you say that? Can you say E.T.? E.T.ĭOWD: I think the thing that made it such a sensation was not this science fiction element. Elliott.ĭREW BARRYMORE: (As Gertie) I taught him how to talk now. KURTZLEBEN: Dowd says that E.T.'s magic comes from focusing on the children, their world and their problems. I mean, the actual inspiration for "E.T." was an imaginary friend he created after his parents divorced when he was a child. KURTZLEBEN: Dowd says that director Steven Spielberg's approach came from his own personal reflections as a kid coping with difficult life changes.ĭOWD: He's never been shy of talking about the fact that "E.T." was written as a story about his childhood in some abstract way. But I don't think there's a lot of precedent for that particular approach, at least tonally, that Spielberg takes with "E.T." He says the movie's family setting within a science fiction framework allowed it to connect to audiences in a universal way.ĭOWD: It's hard to think of a lot of films before "E.T." that brought this kind of emotional intimacy to science fiction. KURTZLEBEN: That's Alex Dowd, a freelance film critic in Chicago.
comes into these kids' lives, and he literally introduces magic to their lives. But even with all that time travel, the space movie has endured.ĪLEX DOWD: I think part of this movie is about sort of taking the idea of the magic of childhood and making it literal. The Extra-Terrestrial," the story of Elliott, a young boy who helps an alien find its way home? And the movie turns 40 this year.
Who can forget that iconic line from the iconic film "E.T.
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