Fun fact: Spielberg had the whole movie shot chronologically, just so he could get a genuine 'goodbye' reaction from the kids as they saw ET for the last time both in-universe, and in real life.
In my honest opinion, the moment E.T. Says “I’ll be right here” and the music swells up in a triumphant way, is literally the greatest moment in cinematic history. So beautiful of a moment 🙏
And he wasn’t wrong either! From that moment on, even once he had boarded that ship and flown away, he remained with us, we always remembered him. He never really left.
It's no wonder why John Williams is the second most Oscar nominated person next to Walt Disney. The most heartfelt ending in motion picture history. Thank you, Mr. Williams.
I just re watched this movie last night and when Eliot and E.T were dying, Eliot said "We can grow up together" I don't know why but I just started crying. It was also my girlfriend's first time watching this and she almost started crying too. Damn they really don't make them like they use to
The soundtrack of the entire movie has most to do with that. This was by far John Williams' best score in interpreting the sound of emotion with the visual picture.
I watched this today with my daughter and she absolutely loved it. The final scene is so emotional but so powerful. When he says “I’ll be right here”….. tears tears and more tears 😢
Elliott and E.T.'s goodbye is one of the most tearjerking scenes ever, especially when they use those singular word "Come" and "Stay" to express their desire to stay together, with E.T. wanting Elliott to come into space to his planet with him, and Elliott wanting E.T. to stay on Earth with him and his family. Of course, both of them know that neither scenario is possible, and the way they express their heartbreak over their inevitable separation really hits home. But the topper is the way E.T. assures Elliott that no matter what happens or how many lightyears apart they are, they'll always be friends with the words "I'll. Be. Right. Here."
@Cancer Itself185 indeed you're right ! just saw that "During the animatic stage of of Revenge of the Sith, Lucas invited Spielberg to "play with" a bit of the Mustafar duel, and Yoda's duel with the Emperor, along with a couple of others," according to The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. According to the Star Wars Blu-ray release, Spielberg oversaw the animatic of an extended chase scene between Grievous and Obi-Wan on Utapau." so i would not say that he directed it , according to the fact that george lucas reinvented the whole film during the edit but yes he was involved! wow that's something i didn't knew!
***** Well, perhaps so, but in Mr. Williams case, he consistently rips off the same composers regardless of the director he works for. He's still great though.
So true. Magical would describe that decade. Magical singers like MJ, movies everything was still being imagined at that time in homes and kids imaginations
I think Henry Thomas gave the best child performance in the history of motion pictures. ET is still amazing. It established Amblin Entertainment, brought Spielberg the most famous single image of his career, and essentially made Reeses Pieces.
+Gangularis Same here. I cried towards the end of Air Bud, and some of the faith based films have left me in tears, heck Back to the Future part 3 had me in tears for 5 minutes, I felt like such an idiot though. This clip made me cry, I'm now wiping away the tears. I haven't seen ET in maybe 18 years, so when I watch the movie in full, I know this will have me in tears for a good while.
Only movie that really got me, sportsygurl, was The Descendants where they showed a deathbed scene. I've seen one of those in reality and it was a very truthful depiction. I cried my guts out for about 30 mins from the scab that scene unpeeled.
PKP405 I honestly thought Gandhi was quite a bad film. Boring, preachy, and failing to get the audience to properly understand the kind of man he was, especially with the more sketchy details of his life. Doesn't affect my high opinion of Attenborough, however.
CoasterCritique Don’t be sad, ET out grossed Star Wars at the box office taking its spot as the highest grossing movie at the time. So that’s gotta be worth something!
When I was a little girl, I cried from the part where E.T got sick ALL THROUGHOUT the REST of the movie until the end and ALL THE WAY HOME non stop. I still cry today at the same scenes.
Those last closing minutes with the goodbye scene kill me every time. John Williams is absolutely insane and this music continues to amaze even after all these years. John Williams will go down in history as one of the greatest film composers of all time. He never ceases to amaze me. 😭😭😭😭😭
@@rishabhdebnath2018 You DESPERATELY want to take credit for E.T. by claiming an Indian wrote the story and an American stole it. In truth, Spielberg stole nothing from Satyajit Ray. Ray just wanted to take credit for something he didn't write. Show us these "plagiarized" sections of Ray's script in E.T.
@@SalvableRuin even martin scorsese supported ray in this controversy....so that means ray bribed scorsese for the statement...that will be your defense right?
@@thisisfarta9693 Satyajit Ray wrote this script. The name of that script was Banku Baboor Bandhu(Banku Babu's friend) at that time Bollywood did not have the technology to make this film, so Satyajit sir went to Hollywood and sold his script to Steven Spielberg. But he didn't give the credit to Satyajit sir.
This scene is a perfect example of how film scores should be done. It connects with the audience to the point where it feels like you yourself are saying goodbye to E.T.. John Williams has a gift for bringing out that emotion through his music. It will be a very sad day in the industry when he passes on.
Saw this in the theater last night and cried like I was 8 years old again. Such a great movie. If you want tknow what like was like for kids in the 80s this os the movie. Freedom to be kids and have fun. Hard to wrap your head around how bad things have gotten in a few short years. Still this movie will last beyond life and that makes me happy.
Mernaucraig'spro96 I know what you mean, I just realized that John Williams composed the music for the Indiana Jones saga and Steven Spielberg was director of that movie as well. Didn't John Williams do music for Jaws?
It's weird, but my favorite part of this scene has always been when the dog goes halfway up the ramp and then scoots back down. It almost feels like an unscripted moment, yet a very genuine one. Little moments like this help make great movies even greater!
You can see Elliott yell at him to come back, but the sound was edited out. Look at him and you can clearly see him yelling. Not a bad thing, mind you, just a little tidbit.
I'm a grown man, and I've watched this film lots of times since I was a kid. As a kid, this scene and this film didn't really affect me much emotionally but I always enjoyed it. But as an adult? I can't get through the film without crying. and it's the only film that actually does this to me. I wonder why that is? I think it's a combination of relating to Elliot(I was a very similar kid)and losing people. Which I know all too well. Well done Steven.
+Zombie Squad I was 5 when I first saw this. I remember crying my heart out. I'm 38 now and, well...the feels. Ouch. The associated memories now make it even more powerful.
+Zombie Squad It's the exact same thing with me. As a kid I had this on tape and I watched it so many times without being affected at all... but today - as a grown man - I can't watch this without getting emotional... When the space ship appears: "I'm not gonna cry." When Elliott starts walking over to E.T.: "I WILL not cry!" E.T. - "Ouch!" Elliott - (sobbing) "Ouch!" Me - "Aw, crap..." The same procedure every time...
I'm 44 years old. I know it's just a movie. But DAMMIT I still cry at this but now for so many other reasons. I've lost my Dad, Mom, and brother. I'm all that's left. When ET points and says "I'll be right here"...it just takes on a whole new meaning to me now. Love this.
Well, this video feels like it will give me some comfort. My stepdad just lost his life earlier today and when he was breathing his last I thought of this movie. I remembered how this was his favorite Steven Spielberg movie and that he and I bonded through a lot of movies like this. I'm going to miss him forever but I know and believe that he has ascended to a much better place than this. I love you my other father. R.I.P. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Makes me cry every single time. Not sure how many 1000s of times I've seen it. The marriage of the scene and the score makes this pure opera. A punch in the soul.
I am 17 and I have never seen E.T, but now I have thanks to Netflix and I remember the characters of friends the sitcom saying how much it made them cry I am not ashamed to say a teared a little bit. It's one of the sweetest movie scenes ever
It is one of the most emotional movies ever made, and for a blockbuster it's surprisingly not shallow. The movie's more about divorce than it is about an alien. a metaphor on childhood.
At 1:58 I thought ET was going to say ' I'll be back' , the sight of ET in a leather jacket, dark glasses with a shotgun over his shoulder would have been quite a shock to the kiddies haha
I showed this movie to my 9 and 12 year old. They initially said it looked stupid. By the end of the film, all three of us were crying happy and sad tears.
Takes me back to fun times of my youth! My parents took me & my siblings to the Drive-In to see this when it first came out in '82... I was only 13...a night I'll never forget. One of the few times we went to the drive in...but this Movie was special...and Dad knew it! The 80's was a fun Decade for me, and I feel a little lucky to have been a teen during those years! ~ MHS Class of "88" !
I was born 81 so I just made it in the 80's, it was a magical decade and fantasy, I use to watch many movies in the night, I am lucky to be around those years lol
...unfortunately for me, however, I have to live here in 2015, where "swag" and "yolo" is what's popular and I have to worry about all the world's problems.
E.T. is still one of my all time favorite movies especially of my childhood and this is most definitely one of the scenes that made me cry. The music along with Henry Thomas's amazing performance with his emotions made it a bitter sweet moment that shall live on in cinematography history :)
Just noticed when Elliot brings ET into his house, he has to leave scared ET in his room but tells ET, “I’ll be right here.” I’m guessing ET tells Elliot the same thing before he leaves so he can comfort Elliot in return. Great movie.
i knew he repeated a line but didn’t remember why -such a great movie the emotions and how it’s told - you are scared of ET at first just like elliott but by the end he is just a friend to you
I was 7 back in 82 when I first seen E.T. didn't really think much of the movie at all... now I'm 40 and a grown-up and now it brings tears to my eyes :'( and it's now my all time favourite movie !!! well done Steven Spielberg and Mr john Williams , huge respect for you both
The first film which was ET at the cinema with me dad. I was around 7. Dad weeped at the end but couldn’t understand why as am deaf as no captions at that time. When it came on TV with captions, the ending had me in blubbering tears. Now I’m an adult and still CRY to this day when ET is on tv. Most powerful film ever, and is a legend! Love ET :)
"I'm glad he came to you first (while holding Elliot's hand)." That was such a selfless, beautiful and poignant line. Keys got to finally realize his childhood dream through Elliot.. it was his was of saying: "thank you." If you didn't cry during the final scene, you're not human.
This right here is why this is my favorite movie of all time! I cry every fucking time. Ever since I could remember I was in my grandmas house in the living room watching this movie. The vibe, the love you simply can't recreate a masterpiece such as this. Beautiful just beautiful
I didn’t realize until many years later, when I grew up the meaning behind “ouch” in this scene... now that I do, I can honestly say this is the most beautiful example of true and ever lasting friendship in a movie.
best ending in a movie ever. the music the emotions the acting damn this scence still makes my sob im 42 years old i saw this when i was 10 years old in the cinema in 1982
I still remember watching this for the first time with my father and crying my eyes out. I was probably six or seven and they played it in the cinema for only a couple of days in 2001 or something. It was the first film I ever cried from watching, and I looked around afterwards to see if there were more people crying and I couldn't understand why they all looked normal after such an intense experience, haha! I actually became a little embarassed and tried to hide my red, wet face. Then I asked my father why no one else cried, and why the kids especially weren't crying and I clearly remember he replied "They probably didn't understand it completely" and I felt okay again. When I get a daughter or a son I hope I can watch it with him/her and my father again :)
I saw it in 82, same age; 6. I somewhat believe I got teary. Fer some reason it was re-released in the Summer of 85, saw it again. No cry. I manned up by age 9.
nonplayerzealot4 Another thing. If I recall correct, the VHS of ET wasn't released until 88! I could be wrong, but I think I remember. The flip on the tape was green. It was like 75 bux or somethin back then. New movies, VCRs, and blank tapes were expensive as hell back then in general.
nonplayerzealot4 Ah, okay! I remember taping on a VHS myself when ET was on tv one night, and after a while I even knew the commercials in between by heart, haha :) There's no shame in being moved to tears though! I didn't cry the next times either so I guess I "womaned up" too, but if I really relax and stay super focused through the whole movie, I'm probably still able to cry :)
***** I think it's strange too ... I didn't see everybody's faces of course, but I remember that the people I did see looked completely unaffected. But we're Norwegian, maybe that's why, haha :)
***** Well, that's what happened anyway:) And since my father answered me like he did, he must have seen that people weren't crying too. But yeah, culture differences can become clear in situations like these. I'm sure you agree that a Norwegian audience and an Italian audience would react differently to the same movie. And it was mostly parents with their kids who were there, parents who probably watched E.T. in the 80's and were "done crying". As for the kids, I have no idea why they (the ones I saw) seemed unaffected afterwards.
The performance of young Henry Thomas was one of the greatest by a child actor in movie history. Music by the great John Williams made the final scenes so much more powerful.
As Elliott looked up at the spaceship, his heart was full. The only one whom Elliott said “I love you” to was E.T. I kind of wish that when E.T. said “Come and Elliott replied “Stay”, that E.T. had replied “I’ll be right back”, and then walked into the ship, come back out, and said “I’ll be right here!, and then gone back with Elliott after the boy fell into his arms, and instead of saying “Bye” to his friend, their hug had been a reunion of sorts, and that they had watched the ship take off, and then Elliott had said “Let’s go home!”
@@sethraelthebard5459 Yes, that is sad, but very true. There's an exception to this saying 2 movies I've seen that are current that were really good without social justice was Ghostbusters Afterlife and Top Gun Maverick, but those movies were sequels to darn good 80's movies anyway.
Amazing! You can watch this sole clip, without the context of the movie, and still get emotional. That’s powerful filmmaking. I say this a lot when I see clips to movies from previous decades, but they really they don’t make them like this anymore
Fun fact: Spielberg had the whole movie shot chronologically, just so he could get a genuine 'goodbye' reaction from the kids as they saw ET for the last time both in-universe, and in real life.
spielberg is the king of sci-fi movies
Genius!
Man knew his trade
Genius
@@parzibalamblin1890 do you know this E.T script Stealing from a story written by Satyajit Ray...
was 12 when I Cried....46 yrs old now and still crying
Same. Same. And same!
+GiaTheAttitudeCat see a shrink then.
I still cry
Hoi im 12 and i dont cry lol
Then you have no hart :/
Children and adults still weep at the end. It's a timeless film.
WarlordRising What about teenagers?
Them, too.
even seniors?
Ofc 😭😭😭💞
what do you mean "OFC"?@@halfdeadminah5857
In my honest opinion, the moment E.T. Says “I’ll be right here” and the music swells up in a triumphant way, is literally the greatest moment in cinematic history. So beautiful of a moment 🙏
Agreed! Beeee Gooood.
The ending of this film made me cry
E.T. is like Jesus
And Elliott says.... "Bye." 😄
The "I love you" .... "I know" of of E.T. 😎
And he wasn’t wrong either!
From that moment on, even once he had boarded that ship and flown away, he remained with us, we always remembered him. He never really left.
It's no wonder why John Williams is the second most Oscar nominated person next to Walt Disney. The most heartfelt ending in motion picture history. Thank you, Mr. Williams.
The last reel of this film is the greatest passage of film music in the history of the medium. I can't imagine it ever being topped.
The end of Close Encounters….also scored by the great John Williams…is close.
@@kencavallari2208 Both Are based on Pinochios „When you wish upon a star“
This is one of the most if not the most beautiful ending to a Film ever.
Yes it is
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Also Close Encounters of the Third Kind
@@Cornexium Shawshank Redemption.
This and the ending of the Goonies are probably the two most beautiful film endings.
Masterpiece of a movie. The music is absolutely enthralling and makes cry every time.
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Movie was epic but dat game was horrible.
You wimp. Go to a gym and man up.
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I watched this on Netflix last night for the first time in probably 20 years and I still teared up.
GmanLives lol gman
original or cgi version?
Now re-watch the movie knowing there was a kid born with no legs inside E.T's costume.
Me too Right now again
Well didn’t expect to see you here
41 years old and I cry like a baby every time I watch this, arguably the most emotional scene in movie history.
I'm 51...saw it in the theater at 10 years old. This scene still punches me in the gut.
congrats that you're 43 now, but nobody really cares and age has nothing to do with it. if you have a soul, you cry at the end.
I just re watched this movie last night and when Eliot and E.T were dying, Eliot said "We can grow up together" I don't know why but I just started crying. It was also my girlfriend's first time watching this and she almost started crying too. Damn they really don't make them like they use to
@@hypnos9336 lmao what? Why so hostile?
The soundtrack of the entire movie has most to do with that. This was by far John Williams' best score in interpreting the sound of emotion with the visual picture.
And now, 37 years later, Elliot and ET are together again one more time for a Christmas Ad 😍
If only Gertie and Michael was here to see ET again. Elliot kids would like to show that tiny green ball hologram to Aunt Gertie or Uncle Michael
@@Gexon1000 Yes, he should have done a Zoom call to them to show them who was back!
Waoutch ☝🏻🥰
Who says it's one more?
The most powerful scene in movie history in my opinion. First movie I saw in the theater and 35 years later still brings tears to my eyes
"I'll be right here." The best movie quote of all time! 😭
Counter Argument:
"Frankly My Dear I Don't Give a Damn"
"Impressive. Most Impressive"
"No, I am your father"
"Why so serious?"
Pink Floyd is the Best Band of All Time. " as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster"
Sitizen Kane
"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!"
JONATHAN PINZON yes yes, I cried in front of my cousins... I wonder if e.t. is real... 😭
JONATHAN PINZON man the feels.. just from one quote. Powerful stuff
I cried after he said "I'll be right here". The song intensified the already powerful emotional scene.
I watched this today with my daughter and she absolutely loved it. The final scene is so emotional but so powerful. When he says “I’ll be right here”….. tears tears and more tears 😢
Elliott and E.T.'s goodbye is one of the most tearjerking scenes ever, especially when they use those singular word "Come" and "Stay" to express their desire to stay together, with E.T. wanting Elliott to come into space to his planet with him, and Elliott wanting E.T. to stay on Earth with him and his family. Of course, both of them know that neither scenario is possible, and the way they express their heartbreak over their inevitable separation really hits home. But the topper is the way E.T. assures Elliott that no matter what happens or how many lightyears apart they are, they'll always be friends with the words "I'll. Be. Right. Here."
Oh lord, I’m gonna cry again-
😿😿😿😿
John Williams, your music will always be remembered as legends.
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Silver Arrow Steven Spielberg directed the Star Wars episode III ending.
ARC-77 Fordo No he didn't,
@Cancer Itself185 proof please
@Cancer Itself185 indeed you're right ! just saw that "During the animatic stage of of Revenge of the Sith, Lucas invited Spielberg to "play with" a bit of the Mustafar duel, and Yoda's duel with the Emperor, along with a couple of others," according to The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith. According to the Star Wars Blu-ray release, Spielberg oversaw the animatic of an extended chase scene between Grievous and Obi-Wan on Utapau." so i would not say that he directed it , according to the fact that george lucas reinvented the whole film during the edit but yes he was involved! wow that's something i didn't knew!
The power of a John Williams score
Score is excellent. John Williams is amazing.
Sheldon Nucks Albeit a crafty re-worker of classical compositions by Debussy, Holst, etc.
***** Well, perhaps so, but in Mr. Williams case, he consistently rips off the same composers regardless of the director he works for. He's still great though.
+Marc Galvan I'll be honest, this film looks pretty dated now and actually fairly cheesy, But the score hasn't aged a day.
+beatles7798 This scene's music is taken from near the end of Mahler's 10th symphony :)
Brings me right back to my childhood.
Yes!!
Mine too.
Bring me to
Love your vids Vegan Zombie, I‘ve always felt like this is a movie that really resonates with vegans
I saw this in 2002 when I was 7 when it got released for its 20th Anniversary and still hits me hard 😢
To be a 80's kid was truly magical. Best decade ever for music, movies, video games. Just amazing.
So true. Magical would describe that decade. Magical singers like MJ, movies everything was still being imagined at that time in homes and kids imaginations
Yes!
The 90s had good stuff too.
Yes the ET video game was legendary
I'd Have Too Say The 90's. (I Was Born In The 90's Lol)
I think Henry Thomas gave the best child performance in the history of motion pictures. ET is still amazing. It established Amblin Entertainment, brought Spielberg the most famous single image of his career, and essentially made Reeses Pieces.
One of the most heart wrenching and beautiful endings to a film. Guaranteed to make me cry every time, and very few films do that.
Same here. This has always been a very sad scene.
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I cry every single time
+Gangularis Same here. I cried towards the end of Air Bud, and some of the faith based films have left me in tears, heck Back to the Future part 3 had me in tears for 5 minutes, I felt like such an idiot though. This clip made me cry, I'm now wiping away the tears. I haven't seen ET in maybe 18 years, so when I watch the movie in full, I know this will have me in tears for a good while.
Only movie that really got me, sportsygurl, was The Descendants where they showed a deathbed scene. I've seen one of those in reality and it was a very truthful depiction. I cried my guts out for about 30 mins from the scab that scene unpeeled.
This should have won Best Picture at the Oscars...
Even Richard Attenborough, director of that year's Best Picture winner Gandhi, admitted that he thought E.T. was the superior film.
The 2 directors actually became close friends after the 1982 Oscars. This led to Richard being cast as John Hammond in Jurassic Park a decade later!
PKP405 I honestly thought Gandhi was quite a bad film. Boring, preachy, and failing to get the audience to properly understand the kind of man he was, especially with the more sketchy details of his life. Doesn't affect my high opinion of Attenborough, however.
Connor Brennan E.T. and Blade Runner have aged much better and have been more influential from a filmmaking standpoint than Gandhi.
CoasterCritique Don’t be sad, ET out grossed Star Wars at the box office taking its spot as the highest grossing movie at the time. So that’s gotta be worth something!
When I was a little girl, I cried from the part where E.T got sick ALL THROUGHOUT the REST of the movie until the end and ALL THE WAY HOME non stop. I still cry today at the same scenes.
I watched this movie yesterday and I could not hold back the tears. This movie is truly a masterpiece.
Those last closing minutes with the goodbye scene kill me every time. John Williams is absolutely insane and this music continues to amaze even after all these years. John Williams will go down in history as one of the greatest film composers of all time. He never ceases to amaze me. 😭😭😭😭😭
I forbid all Hollywood directors to re-make this film
It itself was plagiarized from satyajit ray's script 😂
@@rishabhdebnath2018 Proof?
@@rishabhdebnath2018 You DESPERATELY want to take credit for E.T. by claiming an Indian wrote the story and an American stole it. In truth, Spielberg stole nothing from Satyajit Ray. Ray just wanted to take credit for something he didn't write. Show us these "plagiarized" sections of Ray's script in E.T.
@@SalvableRuin even martin scorsese supported ray in this controversy....so that means ray bribed scorsese for the statement...that will be your defense right?
@@thisisfarta9693 Satyajit Ray wrote this script. The name of that script was Banku Baboor Bandhu(Banku Babu's friend) at that time Bollywood did not have the technology to make this film, so Satyajit sir went to Hollywood and sold his script to Steven Spielberg. But he didn't give the credit to Satyajit sir.
My all time favorite movie. Cried as a child. Cried as a teen. Still cry.
There will never be another movie as magical as E.T.
Harry Potter: hold my beer
And so E.T. became an alcoholic
Gerson847 over all the movies you could of chosen you chose Harry Potter
@@Annabellethedoll666 I mean....it is about magic..?
“Such beauty”
If this ending didn't make you cry then you don't know what real friendship is
Or you're Chandler Bing
It's been 37 years since I first see this movie, and this scene still makes me cry.
"Come"
"Stay"
Nothing more to say...
Dunce
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ET comes home... But in our hearts he always will stay. :)
“Ouch!”
“Ouch” 😭
This scene is a perfect example of how film scores should be done. It connects with the audience to the point where it feels like you yourself are saying goodbye to E.T.. John Williams has a gift for bringing out that emotion through his music. It will be a very sad day in the industry when he passes on.
Screenwriting at its clearest and most simplified. RIP Melissa Mathison.
Can't wait to find out what she's done with The BFG, which is also being directed by Steven Spielberg and composed by John Williams.
Yeah, glad she got to work with both of them one last time.
Come.
Stay.
Who's back after seening xfinity a holiday reunion when e.t meet eliot again
Dude that video gave me chills not gonna lie
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Saw this in the theater last night and cried like I was 8 years old again. Such a great movie. If you want tknow what like was like for kids in the 80s this os the movie. Freedom to be kids and have fun. Hard to wrap your head around how bad things have gotten in a few short years. Still this movie will last beyond life and that makes me happy.
Steven Spielberg and John Williams should always work together.
+mikeeditprofile They do...
+mikeeditprofile I agree! Steven Spielberg has done some great movies.
+sportsygirl8 And so has Williams. Really the two are like a symbiosis, Spielberg's films would be different without his music
Mernaucraig'spro96 I know what you mean, I just realized that John Williams composed the music for the Indiana Jones saga and Steven Spielberg was director of that movie as well. Didn't John Williams do music for Jaws?
+sportsygirl8 He did, as well as every Spielberg movie since 1974, except for The Color Purple and Bridge of Spies.
It's weird, but my favorite part of this scene has always been when the dog goes halfway up the ramp and then scoots back down. It almost feels like an unscripted moment, yet a very genuine one. Little moments like this help make great movies even greater!
You can see Elliott yell at him to come back, but the sound was edited out. Look at him and you can clearly see him yelling. Not a bad thing, mind you, just a little tidbit.
It's a little like when Schindler drops the ring in SCHINDLER'S LIST. That almost looks unscripted, too.
@@nonplayerzealot4 .
I always thought that was cute intentional or not,
Like even the dog wanted to say good bye
The time when the mom hit E.T. with the refrigerator door and knocked him over was unscripted. It was so funny, it was left in the movie.
I'm a grown man, and I've watched this film lots of times since I was a kid. As a kid, this scene and this film didn't really affect me much emotionally but I always enjoyed it. But as an adult? I can't get through the film without crying. and it's the only film that actually does this to me. I wonder why that is? I think it's a combination of relating to Elliot(I was a very similar kid)and losing people. Which I know all too well.
Well done Steven.
+Zombie Squad i assure you that John Williams make all the difference
Lordy same here
+Zombie Squad I was 5 when I first saw this. I remember crying my heart out. I'm 38 now and, well...the feels. Ouch. The associated memories now make it even more powerful.
+Zombie Squad It's the exact same thing with me. As a kid I had this on tape and I watched it so many times without being affected at all... but today - as a grown man - I can't watch this without getting emotional...
When the space ship appears: "I'm not gonna cry."
When Elliott starts walking over to E.T.: "I WILL not cry!"
E.T. - "Ouch!"
Elliott - (sobbing) "Ouch!"
Me - "Aw, crap..."
The same procedure every time...
Same here!:)
0:08 The way the music swells as they gaze at each other, eye to eye, is just perfect.
I'm 44 years old. I know it's just a movie. But DAMMIT I still cry at this but now for so many other reasons. I've lost my Dad, Mom, and brother. I'm all that's left. When ET points and says "I'll be right here"...it just takes on a whole new meaning to me now. Love this.
I love that E.T purrs like a cat ^^
No film has ever made me cry so much
Well, I wasn't planning on crying tonight, but hey, change in plans.
Well, this video feels like it will give me some comfort. My stepdad just lost his life earlier today and when he was breathing his last I thought of this movie. I remembered how this was his favorite Steven Spielberg movie and that he and I bonded through a lot of movies like this. I'm going to miss him forever but I know and believe that he has ascended to a much better place than this. I love you my other father. R.I.P. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I just finished watching this, for the first time... This was and still is such an emotional movie... I love it
Makes me cry every single time. Not sure how many 1000s of times I've seen it. The marriage of the scene and the score makes this pure opera. A punch in the soul.
E.T. and John Williams stole this scene. It is unbelievably powerful...
What a lesson this movie teaches the world. Tolerance. If we never recognize the beauty of our existence, there will not be much of humanity left.
Every time I see this scene, I still gets choked up watching it.
This was my favorite movie ever as a kid. I love E.T.
I am 17 and I have never seen E.T, but now I have thanks to Netflix and I remember the characters of friends the sitcom saying how much it made them cry
I am not ashamed to say a teared a little bit. It's one of the sweetest movie scenes ever
i hate et
It is one of the most emotional movies ever made, and for a blockbuster it's surprisingly not shallow. The movie's more about divorce than it is about an alien. a metaphor on childhood.
***** Elliot wears a halloween cape
***** no I don't know what you mean lol. Are you referring to the image used in Spielberg's production company logo, Amblem?
Wtf
Most epic ending ever and with john William's score it makes it much more perfect
At 1:58 I thought ET was going to say ' I'll be back' , the sight of ET in a leather jacket, dark glasses with a shotgun over his shoulder would have been quite a shock to the kiddies haha
I watched this late night. I totally fell apart when ET died, I mean hysterical grief...then here, it was tears of heavy joy.
I showed this movie to my 9 and 12 year old. They initially said it looked stupid. By the end of the film, all three of us were crying happy and sad tears.
Even if you've never seen the rest of the movie, this one scene tells you all you need to know and still siphons tears right out of your face.
my favorite movie of all time im turning 53 and still tears ET is a great tear jerker
Takes me back to fun times of my youth! My parents took me & my siblings to the Drive-In to see this when it first came out in '82... I was only 13...a night I'll never forget. One of the few times we went to the drive in...but this Movie was special...and Dad knew it! The 80's was a fun Decade for me, and I feel a little lucky to have been a teen during those years! ~ MHS Class of "88" !
I was born 81 so I just made it in the 80's, it was a magical decade and fantasy, I use to watch many movies in the night, I am lucky to be around those years lol
...unfortunately for me, however, I have to live here in 2015, where "swag" and "yolo" is what's popular and I have to worry about all the world's problems.
OldSkooLMusic Meadville?
Wish I was 13 at that time and not in 2015. So many thing happened in the 80s
Evacamilla Knutsen me too man...
That kids ability as an actor is ridiculous that much emotion in that film incredible
The music actually makes me cry more than the goodbye itself.
E.T. is still one of my all time favorite movies especially of my childhood and this is most definitely one of the scenes that made me cry. The music along with Henry Thomas's amazing performance with his emotions made it a bitter sweet moment that shall live on in cinematography history :)
How did I not see this movie sooner? I'm filled with tears because of just how beautiful this classic is.
How old are you? I'm 16, but I probably first watched this movie when I was 2 or 3.
Raymond Mach same age as u
I’m 31 and it took me until I was 15 to watch the whole movie
One of the sweetest softest kindest moments on film...
Just noticed when Elliot brings ET into his house, he has to leave scared ET in his room but tells ET, “I’ll be right here.” I’m guessing ET tells Elliot the same thing before he leaves so he can comfort Elliot in return. Great movie.
i knew he repeated a line but didn’t remember why -such a great movie the emotions and how it’s told - you are scared of ET at first just like elliott but by the end he is just a friend to you
It's amazing how four simple words can be so powerful and iconic.
Never before have I been touched so emotionally by a piece of music. The movie and its music makes me wish I grew up in the 80's.
You know it's coming, and still your heart is shattered into a million pieces everytime.
I was 7 back in 82 when I first seen E.T. didn't really think much of the movie at all... now I'm 40 and a grown-up and now it brings tears to my eyes :'( and it's now my all time favourite movie !!! well done Steven Spielberg and Mr john Williams , huge respect for you both
This Film Is Beyond Perfect
The first film which was ET at the cinema with me dad. I was around 7. Dad weeped at the end but couldn’t understand why as am deaf as no captions at that time. When it came on TV with captions, the ending had me in blubbering tears. Now I’m an adult and still CRY to this day when ET is on tv. Most powerful film ever, and is a legend! Love ET :)
Without John Williams, just watching this would not make anyone cry. It's the music that gets people that's really it.
Watch this clip from the American Film Institute's program to honor John Williams. ruclips.net/video/tJY5l6I253c/видео.html
The music is powerful but the acting and the beautiful puppetry work also pull it together.
It's the whole package really. But yes the music by John Williams is epic, and beautiful, which enhances the scene greatly. All scores should do this.
JezzupWuzzup not really
the 2:23 - 2:40 bit especially gets me every time
one of the most beautiful and significant farewell scenes in any film history...
The power of John Williams, man.
“I’ll be right here” I started bawling😢❤️😢❤️😢❤️😢❤️😢❤️😢❤️
"Ouch" gets me everytime. You can see tear in ETs eye. I well up everytime.
this is the most beatiful thing ive ever seen in a movie
still hits as hard as it did in 1990. wow.
+jgwentworth34 82
i was referring to how it hit me in 1990 as a 3 yr old.
ouch! lol
1900s was a trip
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at "I'll be right here" that's we're my heart fell. 😭😭
Haven't watched this in years because I cry like a baby everytime. One of the greatest movies!
I’ll. Be. Right. Here. The music. The editing. Perfection. 😢
The music I think is what makes you cry the most cause it makes the scene so perfect
Spielberg is the absolute master at pulling on the heart strings.
In recent years he hasn’t lost much of his touch!
"I'm glad he came to you first (while holding Elliot's hand)." That was such a selfless, beautiful
and poignant line. Keys got to finally realize his childhood dream
through Elliot.. it was his was of saying: "thank you."
If you didn't cry during the final scene, you're not human.
This right here is why this is my favorite movie of all time! I cry every fucking time. Ever since I could remember I was in my grandmas house in the living room watching this movie. The vibe, the love you simply can't recreate a masterpiece such as this. Beautiful just beautiful
One of the most beautiful musical and theatrical moments in cinema history.
Omg I’m 51 and I STILL cry at this scene 😭
"come""stay" it's beautiful!
I didn’t realize until many years later, when I grew up the meaning behind “ouch” in this scene... now that I do, I can honestly say this is the most beautiful example of true and ever lasting friendship in a movie.
This has always been a good movie. I have always loved it. This part always made me emotional lol
i was 7yrs old then...when i watch this...teary eyed here at 52. my hearthwarming movie of 80's seen.
No matter how many movies come out in the future, none will ever top E.T
In terms of goodbyes, yep but HTTYD3 next February is going to destroy the theaters across the world.
best ending in a movie ever. the music the emotions the acting damn this scence still makes my sob im 42 years old i saw this when i was 10 years old in the cinema in 1982
I still remember watching this for the first time with my father and crying my eyes out. I was probably six or seven and they played it in the cinema for only a couple of days in 2001 or something. It was the first film I ever cried from watching, and I looked around afterwards to see if there were more people crying and I couldn't understand why they all looked normal after such an intense experience, haha! I actually became a little embarassed and tried to hide my red, wet face. Then I asked my father why no one else cried, and why the kids especially weren't crying and I clearly remember he replied "They probably didn't understand it completely" and I felt okay again. When I get a daughter or a son I hope I can watch it with him/her and my father again :)
I saw it in 82, same age; 6. I somewhat believe I got teary. Fer some reason it was re-released in the Summer of 85, saw it again. No cry. I manned up by age 9.
nonplayerzealot4
Another thing. If I recall correct, the VHS of ET wasn't released until 88! I could be wrong, but I think I remember. The flip on the tape was green. It was like 75 bux or somethin back then. New movies, VCRs, and blank tapes were expensive as hell back then in general.
nonplayerzealot4 Ah, okay! I remember taping on a VHS myself when ET was on tv one night, and after a while I even knew the commercials in between by heart, haha :)
There's no shame in being moved to tears though! I didn't cry the next times either so I guess I "womaned up" too, but if I really relax and stay super focused through the whole movie, I'm probably still able to cry :)
***** I think it's strange too ... I didn't see everybody's faces of course, but I remember that the people I did see looked completely unaffected. But we're Norwegian, maybe that's why, haha :)
***** Well, that's what happened anyway:) And since my father answered me like he did, he must have seen that people weren't crying too. But yeah, culture differences can become clear in situations like these. I'm sure you agree that a Norwegian audience and an Italian audience would react differently to the same movie. And it was mostly parents with their kids who were there, parents who probably watched E.T. in the 80's and were "done crying". As for the kids, I have no idea why they (the ones I saw) seemed unaffected afterwards.
The performance of young Henry Thomas was one of the greatest by a child actor in movie history. Music by the great John Williams made the final scenes so much more powerful.
My 4 year old is huge Star Wars fan. It’s time to show him this masterpiece
As Elliott looked up at the spaceship, his heart was full. The only one whom Elliott said “I love you” to was E.T. I kind of wish that when E.T. said “Come and Elliott replied “Stay”, that E.T. had replied “I’ll be right back”, and then walked into the ship, come back out, and said “I’ll be right here!, and then gone back with Elliott after the boy fell into his arms, and instead of saying “Bye” to his friend, their hug had been a reunion of sorts, and that they had watched the ship take off, and then Elliott had said “Let’s go home!”
One of the greatest movie of all times
My god this scene really tugs at the heart strings
This scene had me in tears at the end. E.T. is such a great movie!!! Where has all the good movies gone?
They’re afraid to take risks on family movies nowadays.
@@thephilosopher5799 Apparently. Family movies these days are more geared for little kids.
Erased and ostracized in the name of social justice.
@@sethraelthebard5459 Yes, that is sad, but very true. There's an exception to this saying 2 movies I've seen that are current that were really good without social justice was Ghostbusters Afterlife and Top Gun Maverick, but those movies were sequels to darn good 80's movies anyway.
Here we go again. 20 years old and bawling
Amazing! You can watch this sole clip, without the context of the movie, and still get emotional. That’s powerful filmmaking.
I say this a lot when I see clips to movies from previous decades, but they really they don’t make them like this anymore