Steven Spielberg filmed E.T. In chronological order in order to help the child actors and to capture the most real emotions during the ending, since it would be the last time they’d all be together.

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image showing Steven Spielberg filmed E.T. In chronological order in order to help the child actors and to capture the most real emotions during the ending, since it would be the last time they’d all be together.

zhowell1009 on November 8th, 2019 at 23:53 UTC »

“Ok see that big fucking shark. Now get ate”.

-SaC on November 9th, 2019 at 01:20 UTC »

When Drew Barrymore was on set, Spielberg insisted that there must always be those who worked the hydraulics for E.T. on hand so that, between takes, she’d never see him inanimate. She used to go and chat to the puppet in breaks, tell it stories, and it was crucial that she continued to believe that E.T. was real.

Sounds like it was just a lovely thing to do for a little girl on set, but in reality it was so when E.T. was ‘dying’ they’d get a properly insane screamy-teary reaction from her.

There are some BTS pictures kicking around where you can see the hydraulics people sitting around pretending not to be doing anything; pretending to read a newspaper draped over their unit etc. while Barrymore is there talking to the her friend.

Edit: Phrasing.

Nugget_ on November 9th, 2019 at 02:29 UTC »

During the filming of Hook (1991), Spielberg allowed the fat kid first dibs at craft services so that he would be nice and fat for the scene where he grabs his fat fuckin ankles and rolls down the stairs into a bunch of pirates.