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Few composers can capture the emotion of a film in their music the way that Williams does. I know I've posted his pieces on multiple occasions, but it's hard to cover a theme like this and not mention him again. He has been the composer on so many great films, the Indiana Jones series, Jurassic Park, the Star Wars saga, the Harry Potter series, Jaws, and many, many more. He works with Steven Spielberg often, and this movie was one of those occasions. This song perfectly captures the phenomenon of a friendly alien encounter, but it also captures the wonder childhood.
I was never all that big a fan of E.T. growing up, but I kind of feel like I need to watch it again. It's one of many Spielberg films that uses a sci-fi story to explore parts of the human condition. Very rarely are his works just about what's on the face of the film. This one explores divorce pretty heavily, with many critics citing similarities of E.T. being alienated just as Elliot was by the loss of his father. The original idea that split into two and became E.T. and Poltergeist was intended to be a movie called, Night Skies, a sequel to Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I'd like to have seen that movie, but I'm glad to have gotten the other two out of its failure.
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