WEBVTT - REPETE: Ben Lomas And E.T. 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.160 Hey there, this is a bonus episode of You Ain't 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.640 Seen Nothing Yet. I know there are parts of the 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.880 world and indeed Australia, in particularly my home state Victoria, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.760 that are in lockdown again, so we wanted to hopefully 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.280 give a little bit of cheer with a fantastic episode 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.600 of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. There is a warning 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.760 there is some Saudi language and some sexual references in 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.400 this episode as we drift off our favorite extra terrestrial 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.040 and move into some police academy territory. You'll understand when 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.240 you listen to it. Enjoy Welcome to You Ain't Seen 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.800 Nothing Yet? The Movie podcast, where we check the movie 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.560 lovers about classic or beloved movies. They haven't quite got 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:46.120 around a scene until now. In today's guest comedian Ben Lomas, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:58.240 I will have my venues this life for the next. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:14.840 They life is lack a box at Choco. Let's haven't 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.600 right now You seen nothing? 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.480 Ben Lomass is a joy of a human being, a 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.399 big hearted bloke with an even bigger heart. A stand 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.760 up comedian. We often get compared to be honest, I'm 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.039 told where our voices are strikingly similar. I can't tell. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.440 Maybe you can let me know. I've known Ben for 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.039 quite a few years, having bumped into him on the 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.040 stand up scene and doing the podcast rounds. He's also 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.200 one of the best warm up guys in the business 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.000 and he always has the projects crowd up and about. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.120 He also is a very own successful podcast called fit 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.880 Bet with Derek dry Singer about their amazing weight loss 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.960 over the last year or so. And the podcast itself 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:04.080 is like Ben. It's hilarious, generous, and surprisingly emotional at times. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.360 I love that ben Cho's ET. It's one of my favorites, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.200 and there's great real living Steven Spielbert's classic Through Fresh Eyes. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:19.920 Hi, I'm Ben Lomas. My favorite films in order, go 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.960 ace Ventura already that Blues Brothers. We're on a mission 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.440 from God and Police Academy one, okay, Mahony. Till this date, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.120 I am yet to see ET. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.160 Do I really need to give a synopsis for ET. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.080 A space full of aliens arrive on Earth, but we 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.280 only give a shit about one of them. Et is 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.880 discovered in the cornfields and befriended by Henry Thomass Elliott, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.200 who now with the occasional help of Drew Barrymore and 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.840 his brother Mike have to keep the authorities from getting 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.360 their dirty mits on our extraterrestrial. John Williams score is 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.160 as iconic it's almost anything in this movie, which may 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:10.560 just be the Great Steven Spielberg's most perfect film ever. Okay, Ben, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.200 before we get to et, welcome, take a podcast to 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.919 you ain't seen nothing yet. We'd like to invite movie 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.079 fans movie buffs. I didn't know three of your favorite 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.200 films included a Ventura. You know, as a comedian, I 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.360 can see how that slips through. Where does the Police Academy? 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.280 How does that slip in? Is that genuinely one of 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.120 your favorite films? Or is that is that Blues Brothers obviously? 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.120 I mean that's great, that's awesome. How does Police Academy 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.560 and Steve Guttenberg's fine working that find it's way in 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:42.160 your top three? 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.760 So when I was a kid, I grew up in 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.720 North Carl and there are only two video stores. There's 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.360 one Movie Land in Brunswick, and there was one art house, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.880 one on Rapdown Street called Wrapdown Rhythms. And the only 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.880 video that I was able to borrow that wasn't R 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.600 rated was Police Academy one, And that was the only 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.560 one available, and I think I reckon. They laughed at 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.560 us because I would hire it every time we'd go 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.800 to the because there's nothing else there. There's like some 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.400 art house from like you know art house film from Sweden. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.720 And then I just became I just fell in love 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.640 because I knew every scene. Mahoney was my best mate. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:25.320 High Tower Shocks, the whole gang was. That was my first, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.799 like besides the Goodies, that was my first foray into 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.640 into like comedy films. Police You can't even it was 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.760 number one and I didn't know anything else. When when 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.839 two came out, I knew there was a second one. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.960 I remember it was like the happiest day of my life. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.279 Did you become obsessed as a result with a The 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.880 Police b sound effects out of the human mouth? 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:44.200 Yes? 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.920 Or be blowjobs from Turns? 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.480 Yep? That well, I didn't understand what that was till 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.279 the fiftie time. I didn't understand. I was like, is 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.400 she punching in there? Like I had no idea. I 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.040 had no idea for those here. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.600 I think you'll find the presentation interesting as well as 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.640 very very stimulating. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.200 Could we have the lads turned down? 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:18.720 So? 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.920 Yeah, so this is around the time of pork Is 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.000 and this is not how I thought the ET episode 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.200 would would start to be honest, So we'll get back 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.599 to our favorable extra terrestrial or extra testicle as we 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.000 used to laugh and joke back in the day. But 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.479 so around Porky is Zappt was another one that was 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.880 a big one in my house because that featured some 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.000 boobs as well, Scott Bayo and Williams yep, some fine 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.679 work later teamed up in Charles in Charge. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.400 The other one in that era I remember was weekend 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.839 of Bernie's Yes Yeah, which is also like it was 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.520 that era of those like they just started pumping them 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.480 out like Fletch Fletch leave. The was a little bit. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.400 Later, but well, the idea of going to the video 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.479 store is so foreign now, the idea that the whole 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.160 trip to the video store are browsing. Sometimes you would 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.039 know exactly the video that you wanted, but often there's 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.800 a bit of browser because sometimes you wouldn't just come 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.480 back with one, you'd come back with seven five six 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.840 seven exactly what a deal. You can't walk past that, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.840 So you know, you take out, you take a chance 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.120 on a couple of films. I reckon there's films like 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.760 probably Mask with Eric Stoles as Rocky Dennis, and I 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.360 wouldn't have seen if I wasn't browsing through a video store. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.760 There's one called one eight two that I saw that 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.440 I quite liked. But then and then you had. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.960 Took a pun on Turner and Hooch Turner and. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.159 Well took a pun on the Tom hanks film. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.279 Well, all I do was Academy. Yeah, this Tom Hanksky. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.560 Can you do no noises out of his mouth? No, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:48.599 he can't. Not interested. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.120 I remember hearing about Revenge of the Nerds. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.680 Hey gaes. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.200 Wondering Joint, And this is literally before I knew what 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.560 the term nerd even meant. I actually thought it was 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.880 a horror film. My my friend across the road said, oh, 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.960 I want to see Revenge of the Nerds, and I 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.120 was like, oh, I sound scary. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.400 Well, I remember I didn't like that, And I remember 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:11.920 as a kid the reason why I didn't like it. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:17.239 I was like too much overacting, Like I didn't believe 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.960 the characters like police Academy. You know there's a guy 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.120 who can convinced everyone that there's a chopper Land. How 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.600 could you not believe Booger no, Yeah, I couldn't believe it. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.640 I just didn't. I never warned those films like no, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.760 it's one two third. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.080 Oh, I think there's like a serven. Yeah, yeah, they 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.880 really went for it. Just before you move on. Michael 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.000 Winslow is an interesting character who plays what's his character 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.440 name in Jones Jones? Yeah, so he have you ever? 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:43.240 Have you met him? 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.000 Or yes? I have. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.640 He will not put the sound effects away. No, he 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.520 won't even when you almost had to say okay. I've 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.680 interviewed him on television on the project and it's like, okay, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.920 you can you can stop that. It's almost like it's okay. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.760 It's almost like you need that good will hunting moment 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.080 where you're going to it's it's not your fault, it's okay. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.880 We're just asking you about how you start. You don't 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.040 need to land a helicopter in this answer. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.240 But it reminds me of that. You know, there's comics 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.760 who like backstage just keep doing gear like they're still 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.480 in that rhythm of when they come on stage that's 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.320 still and you go, mate, you're upstage, you can just 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.840 talk like a normal person. I was backstage with him 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.360 once at a company club. And I was like, Wow, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.280 I get to meet him. I'm going to get a photo. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.840 And the same thing is I went to go to 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:30.840 the bathroom and he made the noise of me. I 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.840 loved it, but then I thought it was so weird, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.120 Like have you been doing this last thirty years every day, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.920 just making noises with stuff that already has noise. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.160 There needs to be an intervention. There needs to be 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.640 a Michael Winslow intervention. Let's put Michael Winslow and the 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.320 crew of the Police Academy aside, because there's another eighties 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.000 film we want to discuss today. How has it taken 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.680 you this long to see et? 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.880 Wow? Some think it's pretty easy. There's only Police Academy that. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.800 I mean, now that I know it's your favorite films, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.440 I'm not surprised it was weird. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.920 It never like I remember kids talking about it at school. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.679 I remember people going to the movies. I didn't go 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.920 to the movie as much as a kid, like, so 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.000 did you grow up? So? I grew up in one 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:20.080 of the toughest neighborhoods at North Carlton, Batman was just 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.439 Italian families and my parents have a local business, so 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.800 they were the local physiotherapist. Now there's like a thousand 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.560 of them, but they were the local physios there, and 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.600 so we just because if you run your own business, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.559 family business, there's not much time to go to the movies, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.760 Like even the weekends, it was time to either you know, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.240 fix something out in the house or we just didn't go. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.959 Like I'm trying to remember the movies I went to. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.760 I think I went to Toy Story, the Robin Williams one, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.920 But then I went with my grandparents. Like so I 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.520 actually only associated going to the movies with my grandparents 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.320 rather than my parents because they were just so busy, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.000 so we never came et, never. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.280 Appeared like how old are you? 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.199 Because it's so I'm thirty nine. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.400 You're thirty nine. So yeah, this was I think eighty two. Yeah, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.360 so you would I was two too, Yeah, okay, and. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.440 Then so but then it wasn't until like I was 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.720 six or seven. Everyone would talk about it, yeah, and 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.360 I'd be like, oh, I don't get it. You know, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.679 does does the alien make noises out of its mouth? 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:19.200 You know? 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.880 Is it friends with high Tower? Like I'm not interested, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.480 Like I think largely I just wasn't interested. But also 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.480 I remember seeing images of Et as a kid, and 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.920 I just didn't like it. It made me feel uncomfortable. I 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.480 couldn't put it in context. It reminded me a little 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.280 bit of the Bookworm. Do you remember the Bookworm? There was 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.680 a kids thing that taught kids how to read. Anyway, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.760 it kind of looks like ET, and I never liked 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:42.080 that thing. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.720 It's really interesting. So I've got three boys, and I 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.080 showed Lee and my oldest, he's he's about ten seventeen 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.560 or he has turned seventeen, and he I showed him 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.000 Et when he was about four, and I kind of thought, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.520 this is fine. It's it's kind of a kids film. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.400 It's everyone loves Et. And it freaked him out for 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.040 so long up until the point, like we could not 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.400 say his name. If you saw him like in the 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.160 image in the street, he would like freak out. I 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.760 think the thing with Et is, this is my theory 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.760 that because for a portion of the film when he 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:25.559 Elliott brings him home, he's in the closet in Elliott's 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.720 literally he's not doesn't come out of the closet, but 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.800 he's he's literally in a closet, and he like that's 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.400 whenever you whenever every most kids have like a closet 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.880 in their bedroom, like a wardrobe or a closet, and 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.720 I always thinking, one, what's in that closet? Because they opened, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.320 the doors are open. It's probably better to have them 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:44.840 open than. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.080 Closed, yeah, because then your imagination doesn't. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.440 Go like, yeah, wild, So I think he imagined may 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.360 have been in his closet. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.680 Well, it's it's funny because the closet is the moment 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.560 in the film when I started watching it that I 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.480 started to realize that I was watching it in adult mode, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.599 because as soon as the closet appears in the film, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:10.080 I'm like, what kid has a walk in water? Like? 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.120 This thing is huge, Like I've got one coming in 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.720 my house. And there's like another room in Mike's rooms 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.200 on the other side, and then and then Elliott's rooms 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.280 on that side, and this is this gigantic walking like water. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.360 I'm surprised that's the first thing you picked up because 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.040 the opening sequence is, of course the spaceship landing and 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.800 the ets kind of about et gets left behind. But 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.679 then you go to Elliott's home and his brother who oh, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:40.480 it assumes probably fifteen Mike Young fifteen, fourteen, yeah, fourteen, yeah, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.840 man's smoking at the smoking Yeah. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.640 But is he smoking or you just see the ash tray. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.960 You don't see them smoke, but you see the smoke 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.760 from the extra So unless it's the mum's smoke, But 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.480 why is it on the kids table? 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.760 Because at first I might these kids seem a little 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.160 bit too young to be smoking and playing poker. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:12:59.080 Like that. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:00.480 Just that blow me away. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.040 And then then the mum hits one of the other 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.679 kids around over the head because you know when they 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.320 come up and they dropped the pizza and they yeah, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.200 the CVTs and he's not there. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.200 Or I thought the mum was dating one of the boys. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.880 I was like, wow, there's a really weird dynamic here. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.760 But what I want to add is, even when you 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.120 get to that scene, because I've got young kids, so 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.880 I realized that this is the first film I've watched 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.600 by myself from start to finish since my firstborn five 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:29.120 years ago. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.960 Oh wow. So that's the gift of the podcast. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.160 This because the first opening scene, I haven't had to 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:37.920 sit down and watch a film because the first open 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.520 to me, I'm like, okay, there's the spaceship, he's running around. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.240 Oh can we hurry this up? 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.840 Well, That's really interesting because I when I watch older 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.760 films now, and I'm sure he's probably happening, you know, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.640 to a lot of people, they feel slow. I watched 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.559 a couple of years ago, watched the Conversation, and that 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.760 felt like forever to start. I watched a cot where 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.200 car range for a Christopher Pine He's going to watch 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.080 a cocker Grange forest and I watched that and that 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.480 felt slow, you know, for for quite a while, and 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.280 then it kind of paces up. You go, Okay, this 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.680 is why it's a classic. But I love I think 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.439 Et is one of these films that I really think 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.360 holds up really well even Today's Pace Him because that 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.920 first sequence it makes you lean in you are it's 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.080 because you're trying to get a glimpse of what these 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.240 creatures are. They ain't quite reveal Et. You never really 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.760 see Et until Eliot discovers him in the cornfield with 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:32.200 a torch. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.440 Yeah. Well see this is this is This is what 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.760 I love as well because in that opening scene where 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.360 it's because then afterwards the film picks up, pays like 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.760 there's no tomorrow. Yeah yeah, so this is what through 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.400 me because I'm like, come on, let's go where's the alien? 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.720 Show me? And then but also there's still I was 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.840 in the parent mode, so I couldn't let go because 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.040 I'm like, okay, I get it. In the suburbs, where 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.440 did this corn field come from? I was questioning it, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.520 like where are they on the side, because I check, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.080 they're at the end of the court ball and there's 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.400 no cornfield. And then out of know where there's cornfield. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it's it's a suburb on the 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.520 edge of town. It's Springsteen territory perhaps in Los Angeles. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.240 But yeah, you're right, because it's an opening sequence, which 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.080 I think is great. And Spielberg re released it with 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.720 some alterations little bit of a George Lucas in two 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.640 thousand and two for the twentieth anniversary. Because the first 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.400 I'm not sure which version you watched, if it was 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.680 the the original one, I gave you one on DVD, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.560 and then you realize you have a DVD player. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.280 Because the first time I trying to watch it, I 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.840 was like, oh, I sat down. I was like, oh, 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.520 I got my cup of tea, here we go. I 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:44.640 don't have a DVD fight. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.680 Now people have like vinyl record players in the houses, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.200 but no DVD players. We're in a weird situation. But so, okay, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.640 do you remember when the later on the film, when 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.400 the ET takes off over the over the cops when 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.480 they're waiting, are they holding guns or are they holding 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.880 walking to he said, you notice walky talkies? Okay, so 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.720 you saw the two thousand and two version and it's 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.880 really great. Like Spielberg I think did a good job 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:08.200 of not. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.480 I'm surprised I remember that. Yeah. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:15.200 Well yeah, well it's because he felt later on because 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.280 he'd had kids a few years after and he said 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.720 he got serious backguns and he's like, I don't want 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.840 guns in the in the movie, So he took the 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720 guns out, replace them with walky talkies. Still get the 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:29.000 kids smoking, and ET still gets on the cans. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.960 That's another one where I had I had a parent 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.280 moment and where you know, where he's drunk at school 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.920 and then she calls up and you know, it's like, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.440 oh this is this doesn't sound like Elliott and he's 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.880 been drinking and then she sayes the empty beer cans. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.840 That's it comes home like, No, I didn't tell him 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.600 if you're not grounded or anything to pick you up. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.800 I couldn't believe it. I was like, where's the aftermath 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:55.040 of this? 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.880 Elliott when he gets drunk in class because he's feeling 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.480 the effects. I assume everyone who's listening to this, you 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.640 should watch the film and then listen to this. But 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.720 when he's feeling the effects of ET because he's basically 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.879 feeling whatever very t feels and he looks behind at 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.160 that young girl is it was very close to being 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:10.520 me too. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.399 It was just but that was it. I realized at 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.400 that moment that so many turns around. He goes, he said, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.440 he goes, how you said that? Look how you doing. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.280 I was like, that's some good acting. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.080 Oh okay, well let's yeah, we need a chat about 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.160 Henry Thomas. Yeah, that's one of the best young actor 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.200 performances I've seen. It's Hayley Joel Osman. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.240 Yeah, that and with Drew Barrymore, those two together, like 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.520 Drew Barrymore like right at the last scenere's another one 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.320 where she's like, you know, they're going off to the 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.160 playground to this where the spaceship is and she's fighting 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.480 to put it. She's acting like like a perfect two 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:44.120 year old. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.960 Would so Spielberg, which you know, let's you can judge 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.960 you more you like. He basically created an atmosphere because 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.120 the et is basically a combination of robotics, and when 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.440 you're se him walking, there's actually was an actor who 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.320 was a ten year old actor who was born with 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.320 that legs, who actually was inside the suit when you 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:04.840 see him walking around. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:05.120 Yeah. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.720 Yeah, he tried to hide that as much as they can. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.240 So he actually had convinced them, particularly I think Drew 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:17.000 Barrymore playing Gerdy, that he was real. And so when 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.320 he's dying and they kind of I think Drew Berry 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:21.959 Moore has said that she kind of knew that he 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.800 wasn't real, but then Spielberg said, no, this is he's 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.720 real and he's going to die like he's a puppet, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:28.800 but he's going to die. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.359 Now we are jumping around a bit with the film. Yeah, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.240 so just back on Henry. How old is he when 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:37.200 that was filmed? 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:42.199 I don't know. I don't know, but I'll tell you 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.119 this on YouTube. In fact, we might even play a 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.679 bit of it now on YouTube. His audition because they 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.640 could not find Elliott for years. And then Cissy Spacek's husband, 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.760 who must be a producer of something, had worked with 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.920 Henry Thomas in another film. He said, you should have 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.879 a look at this kid. He brings him in and 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.240 they get him to improvise a scene as one of 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.600 the producers basically pretending to be a US agent saying 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.200 we need to take your friend your at away and 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.320 you just have to convince him not to and the 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:16.160 performance is extraordinary. Uh, and we'll have to listen to it. Now, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:17.520 there's a knock on your door. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.480 A man comes to a grown man and that whole brother, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:25.359 and he's from NASA, you know, the National Aeronautics Space Administration, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.119 and he has found out. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.159 That you have a creature. He doesn't know exactly what 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:29.880 he has thought. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.879 You have a creature in your closet, a creature that 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.640 he's been looking for for a long time. And you've 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.280 had this stitching over three or four whiks. You become 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.920 best friends with it. He wants to take the creature 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.119 of where, and he's come with a search warrant, and 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:42.800 he's come with permission to take the creature of where. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.159 And you're not going to let it. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:50.479 Okay, now, young man, I understand that you have an 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:51.880 alien somewhere in this house. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:57.600 Is that true? Well? Is it true. Is there an 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:58.560 alien in this house? 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.520 Yes, Well, as you. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:02.760 Know, I am from the government. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.320 I'm part of the United States government, and I am 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.480 empowered to take that alien with me. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.119