Declassifying Close Encounters of the the Third Kind (1977), part 2
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In our second video covering the iconic sci-fi classic we go over further behind the scenes including casting, principal photography, the Columbia studio suits constantly nagging the production and specifically a producer who is deteriorating before everyone's eyes.
If you would like to see part 1click here: • Declassifying Close En...
Sorry about the delay in uploading today. Had some things come up preventing our normal premiere time. Enjoy...
Zemeckis and Gale apparently helped rewriting it according to the 2002 dvd audio commentary for "BTTF".
@@luisrizo8813 Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis were on the Close Encounters set as they were working on the 1941 screenplay for Steven as production was going on for CEO3K. I have no doubt they helped him tweak the script for this film as well. Thanks for chiming in Luisrizo.
@@RepresentThis Filmfreakcentral noted in their 2002 review how this might have broken news.
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I did enjoy Part 2. Thank you for posting.
I was 11 years old when Close Encounters came out, I guess I was the target audience lol. Between this, Star Wars and 2001 I was a total sci-fi nerd. Used to ride my bike down to the public library in our suburb in Sydney, Australia because we were mostly too poor for books. I'd spend hours reading Asimov, Heinlein, HG Wells, Clarke and all the rest.
Wonderful stuff. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I was 8 years old and loved Jaws, Close Encounters, and even TV show Welcome Back, Kotter because my best friend David K. had all the T-Shirts, and even in 1st grade could draw the Jaws poster. He is a professional artist now, but thank God ! My family hates sci-fi, so I'm the black sheep, thanks God, the fun one.
Still the best ufo film after all these years
This was so cool. Fascinating stuff.
Gotta say you're one of the best on here for this kinda content. And you're not cringe or irritating whatsoever like many content creators can be. You cut right to the chase, no bullshit.
Before I made this channel, to be honest I was a little frustrated that many critics and often behind the scenes documentaries or channels always went over effects over the people who made the films. Thus, you can notice I rarely go into the effects even though I appreciate their work. Such channels and documentaries would focus on the director and the big names but ignored folks like Ronald Shusett, Julia Phillips, Joe Alvez and others. In my eyes it was always the people who confided with the big names that made the movie and to really understand great films you need to dive into those details, even the dirty ones.
As for being politically correct, I'm not really interested in that because I think those who want to watch long videos that explore details and depth in film are looking to think and expand their minds rather than be pandered to. Though I want the channel to grow I don't ever want to make a video for clicks. If I wanted clicks I could just start making my planned John Carpenters the Thing video or could have done a quick Alien Romulus when the film was released. Instead, I did the opposite. I will do Romulus when I get there with my Predator/Alien series per movie release schedule and when there are more details about its behind-the-scenes process. After my next Total Recall videos, I am planning to do an Airplane deep dive before I go into Carpenters Halloween.
Airplane should do terrible click wise, in comparison to Jaws, Galaxy Quest and Gremlins, but I don't care, and I shouldn't because if I'm making what I honestly desire to make then it will be the best content I can make for you and me and that's what I think I should be as a content maker.
Sorry for the long response GiantBoar. You just made me feel like typing. How did you get that out of me. :)
Cool. Just watched part one yesterday. Thanks!
Part 3 will be up Friday. Glad you enjoyed it.
These videos are a great service to the history of this epic film. ❤
I appreciate that Ericgen. Hope you enjoy our future content as well.
Very enjoyable, thank you. I must admit I laughed out loud at some of the shenanigans you described happening. One wonders sometimes how these films ever get made.
Your documentaries are so well put together and also have a great sense of personality in your inflections. I feel they add a little bit of depth and even context to the situations you describe. Because I watch a lot of making-of features, both official and from content creators likes yourself, I've seen coverage of this movie already but never to this depth. Thank you for all of these videos.
We always try to find stuff about the films that is not in official material and like to explore the people rather than the effects which most standard behind the scenes stuff does. Though the channel is all about the nuts and bolts of what makes the story the story most of the time it is the people and their personal idiosyncrasies that make a movie what it is, and I love exploring that. I'm very glad you enjoy my vids and there is more to come.
I love Bob Balaban's book, read it several times, it's a little guy's perspective on a giant production.
It is a very smooth read.
Excellent work, RT. It's hard to believe Spielberg was once exposed to harsh treatment by a studio and it's execs, but that's with hindsight of course. Now, he could buy them out. When you were taking about the casting, I remember Teri Garr, on the "Making Of" documentary told Spielberg she would play Ronnie Neary AND Jillian Guiler. She was so funny. Spielberg getting accidentally drunk (after a few sips of beer) when he met Steve McQueen (on the same doc) who had five. Also, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend the 2016 90-min doc "Who Are You People?", which is about the film's impact on the locale of Mobile, Alabama whilst they were there there making it.
Thanks for chiming in Lynstrom. Appreciate all your details about this great films behind the scenes process.
@@RepresentThis It's only a few snippets and nothing at all compared with your excellent 3-part series. Looking forward to Part 3 very much.
@@lynstrom940 It will be out Friday followed by the final part next Friday with Total Recall. See you then.
For the algorithm! Keep up the good work!
Wow, the behavior of Hollywood has always been out of control. It's amazing that any movies get made, let alone these classics.
Too true, some of the stories are just crazy and our next video covers a film over 10 years to develop. Just crazy...
@@RepresentThis Looking forward to that.
Wow!!! Im a huge CE3K fan. I have almost every magazine article that came out at the time, from Bob Balaban's Ce3k Diary to Cinefantastique's Double Issue on Ce3k and every book and magazine I could get my Hands on to the latest Ultimate Visual History but your documentary is very detailed and revealed stuff I still did not know, "Bravo" Can't wait for Part 3.
Really overjoyed you liked it. Hope to see your thoughts on the next vid.
Can't wait for The Dish.
CE3K - a story of heroes, villains, and everyone in-between.
Navigating studio politics sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah, it sounds almost worse than the mundane jobs in corporate America the actors are hoping to escape from.
You love the film '1941'...???
My cousin worked on certain special effects on that film!
Awesome...
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:)
Geez. They put them up in Gillette, WY???? I'm a Wyomingite from Sheridan, so I can make fun of Gillette.