SIGN UP for the free Indie Focus movies newsletter >įor if looking at "Apocalypse Now" a second time reminds us of how much we've changed, seeing "E.T." again reminds us of how much we've remained the same, how gratified we still are by a film that connects so beautifully to our sense of wonder and joy. Which is, thankfully, pretty much what has happened. And a new "E.T." is not exactly what's called for what we want is to have the old one back so we can take pleasure in it one more time.
Unlike "Apocalypse Now Redux," which had 49 new minutes, the unseen footage here, amusing though it is, lasts a bit more than three minutes. It’s the kind of thing that could make your heart glow.Impressive as all this is, it's a bit beside the point. Of course, this news also gives hope for the original version of a certain other beloved saga. Detailing the deleted scenes that will be part of the disc’s extras, the press release notes that they include two scenes from the 2002 version, and a publicist for the release confirmed to me in an email: “It’s the original 1982 version of the film intact.” Spielberg has wielded the magic touch to restore those scenes as well. rather than the original physical puppet. The mom is a hippie, for God’s sake.”) Other scenes included a CGI E.T. What about the other changes? That infamous 2002 rerelease also removed a line in which an angry Elliott called his brother “ penis breath,” and redubbed another line in which Elliott’s mother told him he couldn’t go out “dressed like a terrorist.” (She tells him he couldn’t go out “dressed like a hippie,” of which screenwriter Melissa Mathison complained, ” That doesn’t make sense. (Massive applause.) … I’d like to ask you this, let’s do a little poll here, cause I know we’re coming out with the blu-ray of ET, if I just came out with one ET on blu-ray, 1982, would anyone object to that? (Loud “No” from the audience) Okay then, so be it. I realized that what I had done was I had robbed the people who loved ET of their memories of ET.
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