E. T. The Extra Terrestrial Sparknotes

Analysis of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
People really don’t know what all goes on into making a film unless they work in the film industry. There is so much that goes into making a film from start to finish. From starting with an idea, to putting words on paper, it can take years to get the idea into a story. From there you have to present that story to someone who would be interested enough to make that story into a film. The work it takes to getting a director interested into producing, choosing the cast and crew and where this filming is going to take place can also take a while to put together. Analyzing is where one studies how something becomes something from the beginning to end.

We will be analyzing the film called “E. T. The Extra
T. The Extra Terrestrial” is a film that deals with a suspenseful adventure of an alien that got left behind when government men showed up in the forest where the aliens were collecting samples to take back home with them and the life of a boy who feels lonely due to his parents getting a divorce. (E. T. The Extra Terrestrial, 1982) The story is about a boy named Elliot, played by Henry Thomas, who is a lonely kid that finds an alien and tries to befriend him by enticing him with Reese pieces candy. A mental connection started forming between the boy and the alien. Anything the alien creature did, affected the boy. In one scene, E.T. is watching a movie where the hero kisses the girl and while at school, Elliott grabs a girl and gives her a big kiss. Elliott needs someone to believe him, so he has to show the alien to his siblings. Elliott’s sister, Gertie, played by Drew Barrymore, teaches E. T. how to talk. This is when Elliott named the alien E. T. His mother is so caught up on the recent divorce and her job, that she does not see the signs of E.T. in the house. E. T. tells Elliott that he needed to call home. This is where the famous quote comes from: “E.T. phone home”. The children helps E. T. gather items up to create a radio to call home. E.T. started getting sick and because of the mental connection, so did Elliott. To be able to sneak E. T. out of the house and travel to the place in the woods to assemble the radio, the children dressed E. T. up
He also helped pioneer the practice of product placement. He had gone to the Mar’s company trying to get them to allow him to use their candy in the scene where Elliott attracts the alien into his house. When Universal Studios barred Mars Incorporated to seeing the script, Mars declined. So Spielberg went to the Hershey Company with the idea of using their Hershey Kisses. But Hershey Company came back with the idea of getting more exposure for their newest candy called Reese’s Pieces. It worked so well for Hershey Company, that they reported over 65 percent increase in profits just two weeks after the premiere of the film. (Hutchinson, n.d.) This started a trend with film makers and product