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The return of E.T. 20 years young

The return of
E.T.
20 years young

My goddaughter Tanya was about 3 or 4		was simply an outline of E.T. on a rail with
when she and her sister were taken to see		his heartlight moving through the weeds.”
E.T. She was thrilled to bits with it, and		In the restored version, using digital
entertained me on a car journey from south		technology, Spielberg’s technical team
to north London with the complete story.		have found a way of showing the puppet
Tanya is now 22, and although she doesn’t		E.T. actually running. The restoration also
have children yet, many of the other young		gave him an opportunity to put back a few
adults who saw the film when they were		scenes that [id:27587]. One is a bathtub
kids do. It was this which prompted Steven		sequence between E.T. and Elliott, the little
Spielberg and producer Kathleen Kennedy		boy. Another is part of the Halloween
to reissue a restored version of the original		sequence, which Spielberg claims
to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.		“includes one of Drew Barrymore’s best
“There’s [id:27585] that’s never		moments.” He was also able to do
experienced this movie on the theatre		something he’d wanted to do for ages,
screen,” says Kennedy. “I now have a 5-		which is remove the guns from the hands
year-old and a 3-year-old, and Steven has		of the agents in the exciting chase
six kids. We all looked at the movie		sequence towards the end.
together in a small theatre, and it was		“It bothered me more after my son Max
incredible to watch their reactions. It played		was born in 1985, when I began to take the
to them with the same enthusiasm as it did		world more seriously,” he says, “I began to
to kids of that age 20 years ago.”		feel that guns were inappropriate to have in
“I never wanted to make a follow up to		the movie, and this was [id:27588].”
E.T.,” adds Spielberg. “But I thought it		Although the movie’s been on
would be [id:27586] to present a restored		television many times, when I saw the
version of the film on the 20th anniversary,		enhanced version the other day it was the
to please the perfectionist inside myself.		first time I’d seen it since it first came out,
For example, I always wanted to fix E.T.’s		and I was struck by how magical, funny
run at the beginning of the film, because he		and touching [id:27589]. It gave us
		unforgettable images, like Elliott and E.T.’s
		bicycle flight as they cross the face of the
		moon, and a catchphrase I still hear people
		using: ‘E.T. phone home.’ It also created a
		remarkably expressive and endearing hero
		in E.T. himself. The first time I saw the film,
		in the scene where E.T. appears to be
		dying, tears were streaming down my face.
		‘This is ridiculous’, I thought. ‘I’m crying
		[id:27590] ‘. But I was still crying.