John Landis on CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2014
- Steven Spielberg was playing with house money after the enormous success of Jaws and he struck pay dirt again with this epic sci-fi fantasy chock-full of brilliantly composed panoramas and cracker-jack suspense scenes. Filming largely on the biggest indoor set ever constructed (inside a gigantic World War II dirigible hangar in Mobile, Alabama), CT3K races through its 137 minutes without breaking a sweat, arriving at a climax at Wyoming’s Devils Tower that is one of the most ecstatic moments in movie history. Vilmos Zsigmond’s Oscar winning cinematography helps make that sequence and the rest of Close Encounters a memorably visionary experience.
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I agree with Landis that the scene with the air traffic controllers, which appears in part in the trailer, is one of the greatest scenes ever committed to film. We understand that something amazing is happening purely through the reactions of the experts on screen. Nothing is spelled out for us, but we understand it through their impression.
They are real air traffic controllers in that scene.
Yeah. Hollywood hasn't produced much that is better than that.
R.I.P. VILMOS ZSIGMOND. Cinematographer extraordinare.
With all due respect to Vilmos, he needed the help of no less than 4 additional cinematographers, all Oscar worthy in their own right, to get this one down. The thinking is that no one knew what a cinematographer would be up against.
R.I.P. Vic Morrow. Murdered by John Landis.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 Not murdered. A victim of extreme negligence.
Love this film, can't see any flaws in it. I saw the original when it first came out and it blew me away. This is the movie that made me passionate about movies and movie making. I still love watching it, the cinematography is brilliant and so too is Richard Dreyfuss.
narrator of the trailer is the great Percy Rodriguez
The version on TV combining both versions was pretty epic and took the curse on the tacked on additional ending inside the ship.
Why there are so many versions of this movie is beyond me! I hate it when they tinker with the original!
I know. It never had one of my favorite lines in any of the subsequent versions: Teri Garr saying: "Well Roy, if that's what you believe, then I'm going to drink... All day. Every day. Morning, noon and night..."
To make more money because they couldn't do sequels
Stop complaining, unlike say Kubrick or Lucas at least he's given us a choice of which of the 3 cuts we want to watch when we play the blu-ray.
A great film by Steven Spielberg. Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Dillon take the picture along with Francois Truffant. The best scene is when the scientist group meet the mothership and later with the abducted people coming back. Also the hand communication scene with the alien. The scene with the young kid and the aliens would later be seen again in E.T.. Spielberg at 75, is a true auteur in Hollywood history. I think this is the first film to make a special edition just two years after the original release.
This special edition was one of the first movies I saw on the big screen (and in close encounter of this I saw The Last Starfighter and Cronenberg's The Fly). You don't need more as a pre-teen to be a cineast.
*cinephile
@@danwroy Cineast, my dear little idiot. From the French word "cinéaste."
I'm glad he says it's flawed (you can see him hedging his praise of it), only wish he got specific.
There's all these wonderful things you can say about this film and how spectacular it was, when it was released. But I saw this a couple months back and I was really unimpressed I think it might have to do with 3/4 of the film being Roy pissing about with mash potatoes and dirt.
+Adam Szlamp Can't tell if you're being facetious. The whole point was that he felt like he was losing his mind if he couldn't figure out why he kept seeing the same shape all the time after his close encounter in the pick-up truck. His obsession led him to build a Devil's Tower replica in his living room, much to the chagrin of his wife, who had understandably moved out with the kids before he finished it. This movie is really about wonder, and what happens to an adult who is suddenly re-imbued with the wonder he felt as a child. In Roy's case, the experience is very disorienting, but at the same time the sort of thing he was subconsciously always hoping for.
+Ken H On the other hand, the final phrase of your comment, "pissing about with mash potatoes and dirt," is hilarious!
+Ken H Basically The acting is good, the ship at the end looks amazing and the music is fitting but nothing memorable barring the piano communication scene. The actual plot of the movie is boring it's an hour and a half of Roy going building rubbish all to lead to the reveal of it's just a dull mountain, with a sub-plot of some lady that I can't even remember what she even does in the film. It is a unique take on an alien film but with so little going on it would have been better as a hour long episode of Amazing Stories.
+Adam Szlamp Her son was abducted by the aliens and is trying to find him. She also is drawn to Devil's Tower, the way Roy is. That's how they end up meeting again in Wyoming, where they both meet a much more superfluous character: the guy who ends up knocked out by the gas being sprayed from gov't helicopters.
Now you see I remember it had to do with her kid but I thought there was something more. I guess not.
Not sure the movie stands up to repeated viewings, as 2001 does, but I remember being awed the first time I saw it in the theater.
Landis is a hoot
It's a shame Landis' friendship with Spielberg ended after the tragedy which occured during the making of the Twilight Zone movie.
must be why he cut the review short
Hi, I'm Vic Morrow and this is Trailers From Hell.
@@garrybaldy327 I understand... Did you know the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh was his daughter
@@garrybaldy327 HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
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So, to those of you out there wondering what John meant that this film is ‘flawed’, it’s because the main character played by Richard Dreyfus abandons his family: it’s one thing to leave your wife, but entirely another to walk away from three small children, never to look back. And he probably didn’t explain his remark because he likely judged you were smart enough to watch the movie and figure it out for yourself. With that said, this film is an emotionally thrilling love letter to cinema, not to mention a timely masterpiece, on this day May 30, 2021.
The trailer guy sounds like a young Morgan Freeman.
Anyone remember the Marvel Comics adaption? It didn't have the likenesses of the cast. Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon in the movie) looked like a red-haired Farrah-Fawcett. Not kidding.
Wow! Its amazing you mention this. I was in the 4th grade and an avid comic reader. As a reward for good marks on a recent test, my mother surprised me by buying this giant size Marvel edition of Close Encounters movie adaptation. Ugh, every kid knows never send your parents to buy you a comic because they will find a title you have no interest in. I barely knew about this movie and had no interest in it, although I saw the movie posters everywhere in the subway going to school. I politely thanked her, then threw it somewhere in my room, never reading it for months. Finally, on a boring and dreary rainy day I picked it up to read, and was blown away by it. I couldn't wait to see it on television or cable when it finally aired. That comic is lost and destroyed though.
hola soy jimmy carl black y creo q john landis merece más reconocimiento ...sus películas son muy entretenidas ..no como algunas de cine arte q son bodrios infumables ..como por ejemplo el año pasado en marianbad ..eso
I’d love to know what Landis’ thoughts were on the film’s flaws. He kind of teases an opinion, but doesn’t give details.
hi george
Spielberg wrote this with Steve McQueen in mind . McQueen turned it down .
McQueen thought the protagonist should be an everyman, not a macho action hero.
I dont even care for Dreyfuss in it let alone McQueen
@@taroman7100 I feel sorry for you.
Great movie. The special edition just ruines it.
In all actuality, Cary Guffey’s distraught mother was played by Teri Garr; it was Melinda Dillon who played the wife of electrical lineman Roy Neary (who was played by Richard Dreyfuss). Other than that, John Landis’ analysis of this movie of movies was spot on.
Disregard last comment: Teri Garr played Richard Dreyfuss’ wife and Melinda Dillon was the distraught mother. My bad.
why is it flawed?
+Julian Aron the few things you will always see in trailers or whatever are gorgeous cinema mastery, but the rest of the movie is pretty dry. takes a long time to get back to the next visually stunning and genuinely amazing moment. I saw it in the theatre the day Charles married Diana..to escape that boring boring event I went and sat through what to a 7 year old was possibly even more boring. Of course now I love it, and appreciate it but the pacing is definitely uneven.
Critics frequently criticized the scene where Dreyfuss digs up his yard to build Devil's Tower in his living room.
Dreyfuss's character didn't leave a note for his kids.
Some of the bad? Like what John, leaving the set after the helicopter accident and denying he was there?
Nothing quite so hilariously pathetic as the clowns who keep whining about the Twilight Zone movie helicopter crash. So many yawns for these dopes.😂
The "special edition" made me gag: extra scenes of Richard Dreyfus crying in the bath tub and elsewhere and a completely unnecessary and unhelpful scene inside the mother ship that was pretty half- assed special effects wise. Word to the wise, check out the original not the "director's cut."
Landis says the movie us flawed. Why?
Spielberg felt the first version was rushed, went and shot new footage and deleted some bits. Plenty of critics said this made it a better picture. Years later, Spielberg felt on reflection that he should have left it as it was. So clearly it's up for debate.
the flaws
Landis makes a point of calling the film flawed, and then gives absolutely no indication whatsoever of what the issues are that he has with CEOTTC. Are you kidding with that nonsense? Spill it, man ... we won't tell a soul.
Watched this film many times, didn't see any flaws. It was a great companion flick to that other big movie that also came out in 1977. Watched both in the theaters as a kid...both were out of this world amazing.
@@kamuelalee It was a wonderful year for fantasy and science fiction cinema experiences.
He was very clear that he was speaking of the bad habits SS has back in the early days of his career. If you're familiar with his films from back then you know what he's talking about.
@@integral I know Duel, and The Sugarland Express, and Jaws. Are you referring to any of those? What bad habits .... just say what you mean instead of being cryptic.
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, this review sure needed a better script
It's way too slow.
I love John Landiis, but he really annoys me when he criticizes a great film. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion.
+David Wise He's an unfunny, cocaine addled, hack.
That being said, the film drags.
+rdecredico After decades of viewing, the film has lost a bit of its luster. Landis had his success in the past. He did hit the coke hard years ago.
Animal House is Landis' best work.
He never made an original or serious, respectable film in his life. His wheelhouse was sophomoric idiocy.
His judgment regarding other films is spurious and worthless because he was a poor student of the medium.
But yes, Close Encounters has lost ALL of its lustre and now is boring to sit through. It's own success led it its becoming trite and cliche and Spielberg's propensity for maudlin theatrics takes center stage for too often over the course of a long running time.
It was 'must see' 30 years ago and is now 'please dont make me sit through that shit.'
+rdecredico Very astute.
@@rdecredico You didn't like The Blues Brothers, American Werewolf in London, Coming to America, and so on? Your taste in films kinda sucks. 😂