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In the Halloween scene, the child who crosses the path of the alien and catches his eye is dressed as Master Yoda from Star Wars. At this time, an excerpt from the theme "Yoda" by composer John Williams sounds. In addition to Yoda in the Halloween scene, various Star Wars toys can be found in Elliot's room. George Lucas picked up on the theme and featured several aliens in The Phantom Menace. In addition to this, the race of E.T. has been shown in several comics. There is also a non-canonical (in light of Disney's cancellation of the old canon) prequel novel of the first episode of "Under the Cover of Lies" which states that the alien senator from the first episode is called Greblips (the last name of the director of the film "ET" Steven Spielberg spelled backwards) and that he sent expedition out of the galaxy. Other material in the so-called "Expanded Universe" (renamed "Star Wars Legends" after the deletion of the old canon) mentions that Greblips was in opposition to Emperor Palpatine and was arrested shortly after the events of the third episode.

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Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Matheson considered making a sequel called Nightmares, where Elliott and his friends were abducted by hostile aliens and rescued by an alien.
From January 16, 1983 to February 12, 1998, the film was the top-grossing film in American box office history.
The role of Mary, the mother of children, was first invited by Shelley Long, but she had already agreed to star in the Ron Howard film Night Shift and was forced to refuse.
Spielberg's original concept was much darker, with aliens terrorizing a family in their own home.
The song sung by Elliot's brother Michael as he looks in the fridge is called "Accidents Will Happen" and is written by Elvis Costello.
The real name of the Man with the Keys (Peter Coyote's character) is never revealed.

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In making the film, Spielberg drew on his own painful experience as a child with divorced parents.
The alien-designed communicator actually worked and was created by Henry Feinberg, an expert in interpreting science and technology for the general public.
Steven Spielberg filmed most of the film at the child's eye level to better show the contact between Elliot and the alien.
Steven Spielberg shot the film in chronological order to get genuine reactions from the actors (mostly children) in the alien breakup scene.
Steven Spielberg arranged a personal screening of the film at the White House for US President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan.
Almost a tenth of the entire budget went to the manufacture of the alien itself.
A shot of Elliot and an alien riding a bike against the moon has become a trademark of Amblin Entertainment.
The original title of the project was One Boy's Life. The final name of the film was acquired only in the process of filming.

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At the audition, Henry Thomas recalled the day his dog died to portray his character's sadness. His face was so sad that director Steven Spielberg himself began to cry and immediately gave the boy the lead role in the film[4].
The voice of the alien was provided by Pat Welsh, an elderly woman from Marina, California. She smoked two packs of ci******es a day, which gave her voice a quality that special effects designer Ben Burtt liked. It took nine and a half hours to record her voice, for which she received $380. To create the voice of the alien, Burtt also recorded the voices of various animals and sixteen people, including Debra Winger and Steven Spielberg.
Harrison Ford played the headmaster, but the only scene in which he was involved was cut by Steven Spielberg, who thought his presence would embarrass viewers.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells the story of a boy who befriends a friendly alien[2]. The tape received 4 Oscars and many other awards[2][3].
The film was released in 1982 by Universal Pictures and became a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of the next decade.[2] Including was the most popular film in Finnish film distribution in 1982 - 699,260 people watched it. The film was re-released in 1985, and also in 2002, in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the first screening, with additional and changed scenes.

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So, in the “Eighth Journey” of “The Star Diaries of Iyon the Quiet” by Stanislav Lem, in the dream of the hero, two unlucky alien astronauts Ospod and Pogg splash out slops with microflora on a desert planet - ancient Earth, as a result of which life was born on it. Another version of the hypothesis of the extraterrestrial origin of man considers the possibility of meeting with aliens who are completely (including biologically and externally) similar to earthly people. In this case, these are alien people, which are extraterrestrial human populations, often with whose ancestors earthlings once lost contact or did not know about their existence at all before contact (“Stargate”).

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When depicting the distant future, fantasy goes further. In such cases, the coexistence of earthlings with several other space civilizations is usually depicted. This forces the authors to vary the images of aliens. In almost all cases, they are guided by the peculiarities of human consciousness. Negative characters appear in the form of disgusting humanoids (reptiles or creatures incomprehensible to the human mind). Positive and conditionally positive characters most often look like ideal people or positive creatures from human mythology (Vulcans in Star Trek look like elves, Romulans are analogous to dark elves). Sometimes images of aliens are distinguished by their originality - for example, they move not with the help of limbs, but with the help of natural wheels located in the lower part of the body (Clifford Simak's Goblin Sanctuary). Also, based on the hypothesis of the extraterrestrial origin of man, sometimes aliens are credited with the functions of the creator of all life on Earth or only the human race.

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The image of an alien varies greatly depending on whether the first contact with an extraterrestrial race is depicted or the distant future in which such contacts are commonplace. When depicting the first contact, aliens often appear in the form of humanoids, less often - non-humanoids[15]. One of the stereotypical fantasy themes is the alien invasion, when aliens appear as an aggressive force (usually immediately at the first contact situation) that can destroy humanity. The awareness of such actions, as a rule, remains on the conscience of the author - in some cases, they seek to capture the Earth, guided by clear motives (passion for conquest, the need to obtain resources), sometimes without realizing the destructiveness of their actions for humanity. A symmetrical situation is shown much less often, when the aliens-invaders are people, and the defending natives of the planet.

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Not all extraterrestrial intelligent beings are "alien" in the literal sense (creatures that live on other planets or lived on them once): occasionally in the works there are inhabitants of the stars[11] or outer space. The authors' fantasy also endows such physical objects as interstellar clouds[12], stars, galaxies[13] and even clusters of galaxies[14] with the ability to think.

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In popular culture, images of aliens vary considerably. They are often animals, either similar to terrestrial (in many cases, monkeys or insects), or xenomorphs that have no analogues among terrestrial creatures[4]. Sometimes aliens are thought of as functional plant-animal hybrids, sentient plants[5], fungi[6], very rarely - colonies of bacteria[7] or viruses[8] Quite often, aliens are presented as a reasonable analogue of terrestrial ants, termites, or bees with a developed social organization and xenophobic, which is in line with the fantasy portrayal of a vast hive mind refusing contact with other sentient species and waging endless wars of extermination against them. Also in science fiction there are types of the so-called pure incorporeal mind or consisting of a supposedly monotonous amorphous substance (intelligent oceans (Solaris) or planets [9]). Sometimes even eggs laid by aliens are endowed with thinking[10]. In some cases, the morphology of aliens is unclear, but they take on a human or human-like appearance in order to make it easier for them to contact people.

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Nords, on the contrary, are characterized by pronounced and inherent in people s*xual dimorphism.

In the vast majority of cases, in the view of earthly people, aliens are representatives of civilizations that are technologically superior to earthlings (since the latter have mastered interstellar travel). According to these assumptions, aliens, as a rule, come to Earth on spaceships (UFOs), sometimes abduct people (Greys) or invite them without any coercion to come on board and make a trip (Nords), and also communicate with contactees.

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Grays are humanoid creatures with a flabby body, covered with gray or light green skin, without hairline and with a disproportionately large head, on which there are huge slanting black and almond-shaped eyes.
The Nords are extraterrestrials most similar to humans, namely, Caucasians of the northern type, tall[2] with geometrically perfect facial features and physique.
Reptilians are humanoids resembling terrestrial reptiles. Mentioned in conspiracy theories[3].
Insectoids are anthropomorphic sentient insects.
A humanoid alien, as a rule, is distinguished by upright posture, pronounced lower and upper limbs, paired external signs oriented along the vertical axis. Thus, the classic image of a gray alien is characterized by an unobvious absence of s*x signs in him, as a biological species: there are no pronounced external genitalia and s*xual dimorphism. Most descriptions of the appearance and behavior of aliens present them as beings of a neuter gender, as*xual and impersonal.

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