Speaker 1: Hey there, this is a bonus episode of You Ain't
Speaker 1: Seen Nothing Yet. I know there are parts of the
Speaker 1: world and indeed Australia, in particularly my home state Victoria,
Speaker 1: that are in lockdown again, so we wanted to hopefully
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Speaker 1: of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. There is a warning
Speaker 1: there is some Saudi language and some sexual references in
Speaker 1: this episode as we drift off our favorite extra terrestrial
Speaker 1: and move into some police academy territory. You'll understand when
Speaker 1: you listen to it. Enjoy Welcome to You Ain't Seen
Speaker 1: Nothing Yet, the Movie podcast, where we check the movie
Speaker 1: lovers about classic or beloved movies. They haven't quite got
Speaker 1: around a scene until now. In today's guest comedian Ben Lomas,
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 2: Have my venus this life for the next.
Speaker 3: Life is like a box of choco. Let's haven't right now?
Speaker 3: You ain't seen that?
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Speaker 1: Ben Lomass is a joy of a human being, a
Speaker 1: big hearted bloke with an even bigger heart.
Speaker 4: A stand up comedian.
Speaker 1: We often get compared to be honest, I'm told where
Speaker 1: our voices are strikingly similar.
Speaker 4: I can't tell. Maybe you can let me know.
Speaker 1: I've known Ben for quite a few years, having bumped
Speaker 1: into him on the stand up scene and doing.
Speaker 4: The podcast rounds.
Speaker 1: He's also one of the best warm up guys in
Speaker 1: the business and he always has the projects crowd up
Speaker 1: and about. He also is a very own successful podcast
Speaker 1: called fit Bet with Derek dry Singer about their amazing
Speaker 1: weight loss over the last year or so.
Speaker 4: And the podcast itself is like Ben.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious, generous, and surprisingly emotional at times.
Speaker 4: I love that Ben Cho's ET.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorites, and there's great real living
Speaker 1: Steven Spielbet's classic Through Fresh Eyes.
Speaker 5: Hi, I'm Ben Lomas. My favorite films in order, go
Speaker 5: ace Ventura.
Speaker 3: Already that Blues Brothers. We're on a mission from gout
Speaker 3: and Police Academy one. Okay, Mahony. Till this day, I
Speaker 3: am yet to see ET, so.
Speaker 1: I really need to give a synopsis for ET. A
Speaker 1: space full of aliens arrive on Earth, but we only
Speaker 1: give a shit about one of them. Et is discovered
Speaker 1: in the cornfields and befriended by Henry Thomass Elliott, who
Speaker 1: now with the occasional help of Drew Barrymore and his
Speaker 1: brother Mike have to keep the authorities from getting their
Speaker 1: dirty mits on our extraterrestrial. John Williams score is as
Speaker 1: iconic as almost anything in this movie, which may just
Speaker 1: be the Great Steven Spielberg's most perfect film ever. Okay, Ben,
Speaker 1: before we get to et, welcome, take a podcast to
Speaker 1: you ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 4: We'd like to invite movie fans movie buffs.
Speaker 1: I didn't know three of your favorite films included ace Ventura.
Speaker 1: You know, as a comedian, I can see how that
Speaker 1: slips through. Where does the Police Academy, How does that
Speaker 1: slip in? That genuinely one of your favorite films? Or
Speaker 1: is that is that Blues Brothers obviously? I mean that's great,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. How does Police Academy and Steve Guttenberg's fine
Speaker 1: working that find it's way in your top three?
Speaker 5: So when I was a kid, I grew up in
Speaker 5: North Carl and there are only two video stores. There's
Speaker 5: one Movie Land in Brunswick and there was one arthouse,
Speaker 5: one on Rapdown Street called Wrap Down Rhythms. And the
Speaker 5: only video that I was able to borrow that wasn't
Speaker 5: R rated was Police Academy one, and that was the
Speaker 5: only one available, and I think I reckon.
Speaker 3: They laughed at us because.
Speaker 5: I would hire it every time we'd go to the
Speaker 5: because there's nothing else there. There's like some art house
Speaker 5: from like you know art house film from Sweden. And
Speaker 5: then I just became I just fell in love because
Speaker 5: I knew every scene. Mahoney was my best mate. High Tower,
Speaker 5: I shocks the whole gang was. That was my first,
Speaker 5: like besides the Goodies, that was my first foray into
Speaker 5: into like comedy films. Police you can't even it was
Speaker 5: number one and I didn't know anything else. When when
Speaker 5: two came out, I knew there was a second one.
Speaker 5: I remember it was like the happiest day of my life.
Speaker 1: Did you become obsessed as a result with a The
Speaker 1: Police b sound effects out of the human mouth?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Or be blowjobs from Turns?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 5: That well, I didn't understand what that was till the
Speaker 5: FIFTI like, I didn't understand. I was like, is she
Speaker 5: punching in there? Like I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I had no idea for those here. I think you'll
Speaker 1: find the presentation interesting as well as very very stimulating.
Speaker 1: Could we have the lads turned down? So? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: this is around the time of pork Is And this
Speaker 1: is not how I thought the ET episode would would
Speaker 1: start to be honest, So we'll get back to our
Speaker 1: favorable extra terrestrial or extra testicle as we used to
Speaker 1: laugh and joke back in the day. So around Porky
Speaker 1: is Zappt was another one that was a big one
Speaker 1: in my house because that featured some boobs as well.
Speaker 1: Scott Bayo and Williams Yep, some fine work later teamed
Speaker 1: up in Charles in Charge.
Speaker 5: The other one in that era I remember was weekend
Speaker 5: of Bernie's Yes Yeah, which is also like it was
Speaker 5: that era of those like they just started pumping them
Speaker 5: out like Fletch, fletch.
Speaker 3: Leave these a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But well, the idea of going to the video store
Speaker 1: is so foreign now, the idea that the whole trip
Speaker 1: to the video store are browsing. Sometimes you would know
Speaker 1: exactly the video that you wanted, but often there's a
Speaker 1: bit of browser because sometimes you wouldn't just come back
Speaker 1: with one, you'd come back with seven five six seven
Speaker 1: exactly what a deal. You can't walk past that, So
Speaker 1: you know, you take out, you take a chance on
Speaker 1: a couple of films. I reckon there's films like probably
Speaker 1: Mask with Eric Stoles as Rocky Dennis. I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: seen if I wasn't browsing through a video store. There's
Speaker 1: one called one eight two that I saw that I
Speaker 1: quite liked. But then and then you had.
Speaker 5: Took a pun on Turner and Hooch Turner, and we
Speaker 5: took a pun on the Tom Hanks film.
Speaker 3: Well, all I do was Academy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this Tom Hanksky, can you do no noises out
Speaker 5: of his mouth?
Speaker 3: No, he can't. Not interested.
Speaker 4: I remember hearing about Revenged the Nerds.
Speaker 1: Heyes, wondering joint. And this is literally before I knew
Speaker 1: what the term nerdy meant. I actually thought it was
Speaker 1: a horror film. My my friend across the road said, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see Revenge of the Nerds, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I sound scary.
Speaker 5: Well, I remember I didn't like that, And I remember
Speaker 5: as a kid the reason why I didn't like it.
Speaker 5: I was like too much overacting, Like I didn't believe
Speaker 5: the characters like police Academy. You know there's a guy
Speaker 5: who can convinced everyone that there's a chopper Land.
Speaker 3: How could you not believe Booger?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I just didn't. I never
Speaker 3: warned those films like no, it's one two third.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think there's like a sermon. Yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: really went for it, just before you move on. Michael
Speaker 1: Winslow is an interesting character who plays what's his character
Speaker 1: name in Jones Jones? Yeah, so he have you ever?
Speaker 1: Have you met him?
Speaker 3: Or yes? I have.
Speaker 1: He will not put the sound effects away. No, he
Speaker 1: won't even when you almost had to say okay. I've
Speaker 1: interviewed him on television on the project and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you can you can stop that. It's almost like it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you need that good will hunting moment
Speaker 1: where you're going to it's it's not your fault, it's okay.
Speaker 1: We're just asking you about how you start. You don't
Speaker 1: need to land a helicopter in this answer.
Speaker 3: But it reminds me of that.
Speaker 5: You know, there's comics who like backstage just keep doing
Speaker 5: gear like they're still in that rhythm of when they
Speaker 5: come on stage, that still and you go, mate, you're upstage,
Speaker 5: you can just talk like a normal person. I was
Speaker 5: backstage with him once at a company club, and I
Speaker 5: was like Wow. I get to meet him, I'm going
Speaker 5: to get a photo, and the same thing is I
Speaker 5: went to go to the bathroom and he made the.
Speaker 3: Noise of me open. I loved it, but then I
Speaker 3: thought it was so weird, Like.
Speaker 5: Have you been doing this last thirty years every day,
Speaker 5: just making noises with stuff that already has noise.
Speaker 1: There needs to be an intervention. There needs to be
Speaker 1: a Michael Winslow intervention. Let's put Michael Winslow and the
Speaker 1: crew of the Police Academy aside, because there's another eighties
Speaker 1: film we want to discuss today. How has it taken
Speaker 1: you this long to see et?
Speaker 3: Wow? I think it's pretty easy.
Speaker 5: There's only a Police Academy that I mean.
Speaker 1: Now that I know you're three your favorite films, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised.
Speaker 3: It was weird.
Speaker 5: It never like I remember kids talking about it at school.
Speaker 5: I remember people going to the movies. I didn't go
Speaker 5: to the movie as much as a kid like, So did.
Speaker 1: You grow up? So?
Speaker 5: I grew up in one of the toughest neighborhoods at
Speaker 5: North Carlton, Batman was just Italian families and my parents
Speaker 5: have a local business, so they were a local physiotherapist.
Speaker 5: Now there's like a thousand of them, but they were
Speaker 5: the local physios there, and so we just because if
Speaker 5: you run your own business, family business, there's not much
Speaker 5: time to go to the movies, Like even the weekends,
Speaker 5: it was time to either you know, fix something out
Speaker 5: in the house or we just didn't go. Like I'm
Speaker 5: trying to remember the movies I went to. I think
Speaker 5: I went to Toy Story, the Robin Williams one, But
Speaker 5: then I went with my grandparents. Like so I actually
Speaker 5: only associated going to the movies with my grandparents rather
Speaker 5: than my parents because they were just so busy, so
Speaker 5: we never came et, never appeared.
Speaker 1: Like how old are you?
Speaker 3: Because it's so I'm thirty nine.
Speaker 1: You're thirty nine. So yeah, this was I think eighty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you would I was two too, Yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 5: Then so but then it wasn't until like I was
Speaker 5: six or seven. Everyone would talk about it, yeah, and
Speaker 5: I'd be like, oh, I don't get it. You know,
Speaker 5: does does the alien make noises out of its mouth?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Is it friends with high Tower?
Speaker 5: Like I'm not interested, Like I think largely I just
Speaker 5: wasn't interested. But also I remember seeing images of Et
Speaker 5: as a kid, and I just didn't like it. It made
Speaker 5: me feel uncomfortable. I couldn't put it in context. It
Speaker 5: reminded me a little bit of the Bookworm. Do you
Speaker 5: remember the Bookworm? There was a kids thing that taught
Speaker 5: kids how to read. Anyway, it kind of looks like ET,
Speaker 5: and I never liked that thing.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. So I've got three boys, and I
Speaker 1: showed Lee and my oldest, he's he's about ten seventeen
Speaker 1: or he has turned seventeen, and he I showed him
Speaker 1: Et when he was about four, and I kind of thought,
Speaker 1: this is fine. It's it's kind of a kid's film.
Speaker 1: It's Et. Everyone loves Et. And it freaked him out
Speaker 1: for so long up until the point, like we could
Speaker 1: not say his name. If you saw him like in
Speaker 1: the image in the street, he would like freak out.
Speaker 1: I think the thing with Et is, this is my
Speaker 1: theory that because for a portion of the film when
Speaker 1: he Elliott brings him home, he's in the closet in
Speaker 1: Elliott's literally he's not doesn't come out of the closet,
Speaker 1: but he's he's literally in a closet, and he like
Speaker 1: that's whenever you whenever. Every Most kids have like a
Speaker 1: closet in their bedroom, like a wardrobe or a closet,
Speaker 1: and I always thinking, one, what's in that closet? Because
Speaker 1: they opened the doors are open. It's probably better to
Speaker 1: have them open than.
Speaker 5: Closed, Yeah, because then your imagination doesn't.
Speaker 1: Go like, yeah, wild, So I think he imagined may
Speaker 1: have been in his closet.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's funny because the closet is the moment
Speaker 5: in the film when I started watching it that I
Speaker 5: started to realize that I was still watching it in
Speaker 5: adult mode, because as soon as the closet appears in
Speaker 5: the film, I'm like, what.
Speaker 3: Kid has a walk in water?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 5: This thing is huge, Like I've got one company in
Speaker 5: my house, and there's like another room in Mike's rooms
Speaker 5: on the other side, and then and then Elliott's rooms
Speaker 5: on that side, and this is gigantic walking like water.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that's the first thing you picked up because
Speaker 1: the opening sequence is, of course the spaceship landing and
Speaker 1: the ets kind of about et gets left behind. But
Speaker 1: then you go to Elliott's home and his brother who, oh,
Speaker 1: it assumes probably fifteen Mike Young fifteen fourteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man's smoking at the smoking Yeah.
Speaker 3: But is he smoking? Or you just see the ash tray.
Speaker 1: You don't see them smoke, but you see the smoke
Speaker 1: from the extra unless it's the mum's smoke.
Speaker 4: But why is it on the kids table?
Speaker 5: Because at first, I like, these kids seem a little
Speaker 5: bit too young to be smoking and playing.
Speaker 3: Poker like that. Just that blows me away.
Speaker 1: And then then the mum hits one of the other
Speaker 1: kids around over the head because you know when they
Speaker 1: come up from they dropped the pizza and they yeah,
Speaker 1: CVTs and he's not there.
Speaker 5: Or I thought the mum was dating one of the boys.
Speaker 5: I was like, wow, there's a really weird dynamic here.
Speaker 5: But what I want to add is, even when you
Speaker 5: get to that scene, because I've got young kids, so
Speaker 5: I realized that this is the first film I have
Speaker 5: watched by myself from start to finish since my firstborn
Speaker 5: five years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. So that's the gift of the podcast.
Speaker 5: This because the first opening scene, I haven't had to
Speaker 5: sit down and watch a film because the first open
Speaker 5: to me, I'm like, okay, there's the spaceship.
Speaker 3: He's running around. Oh can we hurry this up.
Speaker 1: Well, that's really interesting because I when I watch older
Speaker 1: films now and I'm sure he's probably happening, you know,
Speaker 1: to a lot of people, they feel slow. I watched
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, watched The Conversation, and that
Speaker 1: felt like forever to start. I watched a cot where
Speaker 1: Cara ringe for a Christopher Pine He's going to watch
Speaker 1: a cocker Grange forest and I watched that and that
Speaker 1: felt slow, you know, for for quite a while, and
Speaker 1: then it kind of pass up. You go, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is why it's a classic. But I love I think
Speaker 1: Et is one of these films that I really think
Speaker 1: holds up really well even Today's Pace Him because that
Speaker 1: first sequence it makes you lean in you are it's
Speaker 1: because you're trying to get a glimpse of what these
Speaker 1: creatures are. They ain't quite reveal Et. You never really
Speaker 1: see Et until Eliot discovers him in the cornfield with
Speaker 1: a torch.
Speaker 3: Yeah we'll see.
Speaker 5: This is this is This is what I love as
Speaker 5: well because in that opening scene where it's because then
Speaker 5: afterwards the film picks up pays like.
Speaker 3: There's no tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, So this is what through me because I'm like,
Speaker 5: come on, let's go, where's the alien?
Speaker 3: Show me?
Speaker 5: And then but also there's still I was in the
Speaker 5: parent mode, so I couldn't let go because I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: I get it. In the suburbs, where did this corn
Speaker 5: field come from? I was questioning it, like where are
Speaker 5: they on the side, because I someone checked there at
Speaker 5: the end of the court ball and there's no cornfield.
Speaker 3: And then out of nowhere there's cornfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it's it's a suburb on the
Speaker 1: edge of town. It's Springsteen territory perhaps in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, because it's an opening sequence, which
Speaker 1: I think is great. And Spielberg re released it with
Speaker 1: some alterations, little bit of a George Lucas in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two for the twentieth anniversary. Because the first
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which version you watched, if it was
Speaker 1: the the original one, I gave you one on DVD,
Speaker 1: and then you realize you have a DVD player, because.
Speaker 3: The first time I tried to watch it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I sat down. I was like, oh, I got my
Speaker 3: cup of tea, here we go. I don't have a
Speaker 3: DVD fight.
Speaker 1: Now people have like vinyl record players in the houses,
Speaker 1: but no DVD players. We're in a weird situation. But so, okay,
Speaker 1: do you remember when the later on the film, when
Speaker 1: the ET takes off over the over the cops when
Speaker 1: they're waiting, are they holding guns or are they holding
Speaker 1: walkie toll? He said, you notice walky talkies? Okay, so
Speaker 1: you saw the two thousand and two version and it's
Speaker 1: really great.
Speaker 4: Like Spielberg I think did a good job of not.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, well it's he felt later on because
Speaker 1: he'd had kids a few years after and he said
Speaker 1: he got serious backguns and he's like, I don't want
Speaker 1: guns in the in the movie, so he took the
Speaker 1: guns out, replace them with walky talkies. Still get the
Speaker 1: kids smoking, and ET still gets on the cans.
Speaker 3: That's another one where I had I had a parent
Speaker 3: moment and where you know, where he's.
Speaker 5: Drunk at school and then she calls up and you know,
Speaker 5: it's like, oh this is this doesn't sound like Elliott
Speaker 5: and he's been drinking and then she sayes the empty
Speaker 5: beer cans. That's it comes home, like, No, I didn't
Speaker 5: tell him.
Speaker 3: If you're not grounded or anything to pick you up.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. I was like, where's the aftermath
Speaker 3: of this?
Speaker 1: Elliott when he gets drunk in class because he's feeling
Speaker 1: the effects. I assume everyone who's listening to this, you
Speaker 1: should watch the film and then listen to this. But
Speaker 1: when he's feeling the effects of ET because he's basically
Speaker 1: feeling whatever very t feels and he looks behind at
Speaker 1: that young girl is it was very close to being
Speaker 1: me too.
Speaker 3: It was just but that was it.
Speaker 5: I realized at that moment that too many turns around.
Speaker 5: He goes, he said, he goes, how you said that?
Speaker 3: Look how you doing. I was like, that's some good acting.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well let's yeah, we need a chat about
Speaker 1: Henry Thomas. Yeah, that's one of the best young actor
Speaker 1: performances I've seen. It's Hayley Joel Osman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that and with Drew Barrymore, those two together, like
Speaker 5: Drew Barrymore. Like right at the last scene is another
Speaker 5: one where she's like, you know, they're going off to
Speaker 5: the playground to this where the spaceship is and she's
Speaker 5: fighting to put it. She's acting like like a perfect
Speaker 5: two year.
Speaker 1: Old would so Spielberg, which you know, let's you can
Speaker 1: judge you more you like.
Speaker 4: He basically created an atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Because the et is basically a combination of robotics, and
Speaker 1: when you're se him walking, there's actually was an actor
Speaker 1: who was a ten year old actor who was born
Speaker 1: with that legs, who actually was inside the suit when
Speaker 1: when you see him walking around. Yeah, yeah, he tried
Speaker 1: to hide that as much as they can. So he
Speaker 1: actually had convinced them, particularly I think Drew Barrymore playing Gerdie,
Speaker 1: that he was real. And so when he's dying and
Speaker 1: they kind of I think Drew Barrymore has said that
Speaker 1: she kind of knew that he wasn't real. But then
Speaker 1: Spielberg said, no, this is he's real, and he's going
Speaker 1: to die like he's a puppet, but he's going to die.
Speaker 5: Now we are jumping around a bit with the film. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so just back on Henry. How old is he when
Speaker 5: that was filmed?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this on YouTube. In fact, we might even play a
Speaker 1: bit of it now on YouTube. His audition because they
Speaker 1: could not find Elliott for years. And then Cissy Spacek's husband,
Speaker 1: who must be a producer of something, had worked with
Speaker 1: Henry Thomas in another film. He said, you should have
Speaker 1: a look at this kid. He brings him in and
Speaker 1: they get him to improvise a scene as one of
Speaker 1: the producers basically pretending to be a US agent saying
Speaker 1: we need to take your friend your at away and
Speaker 1: you just have to convince him not to and the
Speaker 1: performance is extraordinary.
Speaker 4: Uh, and we'll have to listen to it.
Speaker 1: Now, there's a knock on your door.
Speaker 7: A man comes to a grown man, not your brother,
Speaker 7: and he's from NASA, you know, the National Aeronautics Space Administration, and.
Speaker 2: He has found out that you have a creature. He
Speaker 2: doesn't know exactly what he has thought.
Speaker 7: You have a creature in your closet, a creature that
Speaker 7: he's been looking for for a long time, and you've
Speaker 7: had this stitching over three or four which you become
Speaker 7: best friends with it. He wants to take the creature
Speaker 7: of where, and he's come with a search warrant and
Speaker 7: he's come with permission to take the creature of where,
Speaker 7: and you're not going to let it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, young man, I understand that you have an
Speaker 2: alien somewhere in this house. Is that true? Well? Is
Speaker 2: it true? Is there an alien in this house. Yes, Well,
Speaker 2: as you know, I am from the government. I'm part
Speaker 2: of the United States government, and I am empowered to
Speaker 2: take that alien with me.
Speaker 6: But you can't take him away. He's mine.
Speaker 2: Well, but the government is bigger than you are, Elliott,
Speaker 2: and I really I have all the authority to take him,
Speaker 2: and I gotta tell you I'm gonna take him.
Speaker 6: I can't take him.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid I.
Speaker 6: Have to Son, you can't take him away mine, but.
Speaker 2: It's not my choice. The President asked me to come
Speaker 2: here and to get him.
Speaker 8: Don't killing the President's my best friend, and you can't
Speaker 8: get you away.
Speaker 2: Well, it's real possible, Elliott. You'll come back and you
Speaker 2: can have him again. But we just want to talk
Speaker 2: to him and see where it came from, and try
Speaker 2: to find out about other planets. And he probably is
Speaker 2: the key to a lot of things that we have
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 6: But how do I know you're going to bring him back?
Speaker 2: Well, afraid side, I can't guarantee you.
Speaker 6: I think he's afraid of you.
Speaker 2: That may be true, but the government tells me what
Speaker 2: to do. I just follow their orders.
Speaker 8: Well, he's mine, and then he lives with me. He
Speaker 8: likes me and he wants to stay here. He likes
Speaker 8: it here.
Speaker 2: Well, we wouldn't hurt him or anything. All I want
Speaker 2: to do is talk to him.
Speaker 6: But I don't want you to take him away.
Speaker 2: You know, I've had to talk to your mom about it,
Speaker 2: and she knows that the government has the right to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 6: And who told you all this?
Speaker 2: Well, we learned about it. We know that he's somewhere
Speaker 2: around here. I mean, I do have a search one
Speaker 2: I could look around the house. Tell me to keep
Speaker 2: doing it right. Well, I'll tell you what. If you
Speaker 2: haven't talked to him for five minutes, I'll tell my
Speaker 2: boss that you can keep it. Would that be okay
Speaker 2: with you? If I could just talk for five minutes,
Speaker 2: would you feel better?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: Would you be happy? If you could keep me? Well,
Speaker 2: I had to talk for five minutes. That might make
Speaker 2: your hold anyhow, might make your whole life?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Then he be your friend forever and I wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Take them away.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you got a job?
Speaker 3: How that is phenomenal?
Speaker 1: Now as we speak, Right now, I'm auditioning a few
Speaker 1: kids a very different ages for for how to say married.
Speaker 1: And I look at them and I kind of before
Speaker 1: they even start them, Like, I like, I'm feeling for them,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how brave are you just to do this?
Speaker 1: And like they're, yeah, they're kids of different talents and
Speaker 1: all that. If in at that age to go in
Speaker 1: there and listening, to be taking direction and.
Speaker 5: Then to be so in the moment to them be
Speaker 5: able to cry and it's improvising.
Speaker 1: He's out improvising the producer, the producer. One that's going on,
Speaker 1: bloody hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That is. And what's really interesting is I did cry
Speaker 5: in the movie, and I wasn't expecting to. But what
Speaker 5: was really interesting is I was crying at that bit
Speaker 5: where they're both on the table where they don't take
Speaker 5: him away.
Speaker 3: It's like pretty much in that scene.
Speaker 5: But the reason is, I'm curious if I would have
Speaker 5: cried if I was little, because I just see my
Speaker 5: son and I see how he gets so attached to
Speaker 5: his toys that I just see my son talking and
Speaker 5: how heartbreaking it is when your child is doing it.
Speaker 5: That I started crying because I can imagine my son
Speaker 5: Teo being so attached to this, to this creature that
Speaker 5: has shown him so much love, and that you know,
Speaker 5: his dad's in Mexico or wherever Ali, but that is
Speaker 5: I can't get over that. If that's the audition. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he did get the job. He got the job there and.
Speaker 1: Then absolutely it was phenomenal what I loved about the film.
Speaker 1: He could have easily have been just about Elliott and Et,
Speaker 1: but I do love how they included Mike and Gertie,
Speaker 1: Like they all do a really nice and satisfying Like
Speaker 1: there's a great scene, you know where Mike, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's you know, he's got a smart you know,
Speaker 1: he's a bit of a smart ass, and he's got
Speaker 1: you know, the little shit of her little brother. You
Speaker 1: know that he's setting out to get the pizza and
Speaker 1: you know, not really treating with that much respect. And
Speaker 1: then he realizes that Et is real and he's been
Speaker 1: telling the truth and that's the way. He goes to
Speaker 1: school and his mate's still giving Elliot shit. He doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything, but he's on the bus, yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: seeing everyone's like there's crazy that is going on. He's
Speaker 1: just like you can see the change in him. And
Speaker 1: Gertie has her own kind of stuff going on, and
Speaker 1: you know, she kind of connects with Et and she
Speaker 1: teaches him how to talk and the whole phone home.
Speaker 6: You want to cast somebody.
Speaker 5: I didn't think, like when I was watching the film,
Speaker 5: I didn't think Mike would find out till Ages and
Speaker 5: then before you know it, all three of them are
Speaker 5: found out within the first twenty minutes. I was like,
Speaker 5: I didn't know that was part of the film, because
Speaker 5: the thing with like such a big hit like that,
Speaker 5: if you haven't seen it, you've seen all the images
Speaker 5: like what the bike's going over through over the moon,
Speaker 5: Like I didn't know when I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, what were your impressions and
Speaker 1: images and scenes you kind of knew of the film?
Speaker 5: So Et itself always just looked like, I know, this
Speaker 5: sounds weird.
Speaker 3: It just always looked.
Speaker 5: Like a coffee table with eyes, like I had this
Speaker 5: kind of coffee table, are you out look, I've got
Speaker 5: European parents, we got some weird furniture at home, okay,
Speaker 5: But he just he just looked like a coffee like we'd.
Speaker 3: Sort of like side table of a couch. I never,
Speaker 3: I never, I never really like that.
Speaker 5: I just never believed, right, but in the image of
Speaker 5: kids on a bike flying over through that so the silhouette, right.
Speaker 3: I think that was the first sill the weete I'd.
Speaker 5: Ever seen, and so I always wanted to know that
Speaker 5: would be cool like that that component. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 5: that's going to be amazing, like like when I see that,
Speaker 5: I can imagine that. And then and the other one,
Speaker 5: the other scene, which maybecause I knew it was coming
Speaker 5: when they were riding at the end, because I was
Speaker 5: just like, oh, when are they going to all do
Speaker 5: it together? Because the first time he flies, it comes,
Speaker 5: it comes out of nowhere, like that's the other thing.
Speaker 5: I had a feeling that it was going to build
Speaker 5: up to that.
Speaker 1: No, and even in that scene, it happens quite quickly.
Speaker 1: I think nowadays you'd they'd be riding for like a
Speaker 1: minute or so they'd really build up that kind of tension.
Speaker 4: But like they ride for a few seconds and it's
Speaker 4: like et and it's.
Speaker 5: Really funny because all those BMEX scenes are amazing. It's
Speaker 5: the only time I stopped and rewinded the film, like
Speaker 5: I was like, I won't.
Speaker 3: Let it go.
Speaker 5: But because I was convinced towards the end that they
Speaker 5: hi didn't fast forward because I was like, I don't
Speaker 5: remember being able to ride a bike that quick, like
Speaker 5: I wanted to check that it wasn't sped up, because
Speaker 5: they like it is some of the most.
Speaker 3: Amazing riding I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Like I noticed like Bmex bandits and all that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff, but this one was just like it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the aulet's yeah, the way that the
Speaker 1: way they're synchronized, and the moon scene is kind of
Speaker 1: like you know when he finds in the moon in
Speaker 1: the background, it was almost the image to the artwork they
Speaker 1: for the film. So you cried.
Speaker 3: I did cry, And it wasn't where I expected.
Speaker 5: I was assuming at the ending because I knew that
Speaker 5: I kind of knew what the ending was going to
Speaker 5: be like that he eventually goes home.
Speaker 3: I'd grasp that bit.
Speaker 5: But it's just when they turn the house into like
Speaker 5: some lab slash hospital with again that I love that
Speaker 5: where they there's a great scene because there I want
Speaker 5: to watch it again and look for all the floors
Speaker 5: because there are quite a few. But there's a scene
Speaker 5: where I think the whole house is kind of like
Speaker 5: glad wrapped to protect everyone, and then there's like and
Speaker 5: I just want to check it, and there's that big
Speaker 5: funnel so that that big thing where they all climbed through,
Speaker 5: but I swear to god, someone's just walking through the
Speaker 5: front door in the back. There was in that scene
Speaker 5: where they're all and it's funny because I reckon with
Speaker 5: those films and ones I don't let go of. Once
Speaker 5: Et appeared and the family dynamic was there, I was
Speaker 5: lost in the film. But then also it was the
Speaker 5: trigger of because my mum has been quite ill and
Speaker 5: I've gone through that whole hospital thing where you see
Speaker 5: someone you love, and because you're so attached to Elliott,
Speaker 5: and because I see my son in it, it came
Speaker 5: all flooding in because the pain of losing something you
Speaker 5: care about, yeah, you kind of associated with your family member,
Speaker 5: in this case my mum. But then I'm also seeing
Speaker 5: my son. So I took a fighter and said it
Speaker 5: to my partner and she.
Speaker 3: Goes you I was balling.
Speaker 5: I was balling because I was like, even though I
Speaker 5: knew that it had a good ending, I was like,
Speaker 5: you can't take him away.
Speaker 3: He's dying and now the kids and it was really funny.
Speaker 3: I was surprised. I was like, yeah, the kid is
Speaker 3: getting better of it.
Speaker 5: I mean, what's the poet yeah, Like it's really hard
Speaker 5: because I was like, you know, Elliott is getting better,
Speaker 5: but then ET's dying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's and it's yes, Spielberger said, it's his
Speaker 1: most personal film, and it's it's hard. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: probably his best film. I mean, She is absolute masterpiece.
Speaker 1: But but this is an absolute gem. It's really a
Speaker 1: personal film because he was parents, his parents were divorced.
Speaker 1: Now he done it undaws before this, I think close
Speaker 1: gown as he's done before this. This started as a
Speaker 1: he had an idea that there's gonna be some aliens
Speaker 1: terrorizing a family, and then he wanted that he wanted
Speaker 1: to make a more personal film and a more family
Speaker 1: orientated film, so that idea became Poltergeist and then he
Speaker 1: and he made and it was written by Melissa Matheson.
Speaker 1: Who this is. I mean, this, this is where Spielberg,
Speaker 1: you know, genus just gets stuff done. Obviously. Well actually,
Speaker 1: well not all geniuses do. Some genius is you know,
Speaker 1: they they had that one thing and that's they're a genius.
Speaker 1: But Spielberg was like making Raiders of the Lost Arc
Speaker 1: and developing this basically at the same time with Melissa Matheson,
Speaker 1: Melissa Matheson, who went on and had a couple of
Speaker 1: kids with Harrison Ford. She I think she I think
Speaker 1: she won the Oscar for this. This film did not win.
Speaker 1: The Oscar was beat by Gandhi.
Speaker 3: Really what did he do?
Speaker 4: Nothing? I didn't even know how to use a phone?
Speaker 1: So and was it Richard Attenborough or and he even
Speaker 1: said that this ET deserved the win, like it was
Speaker 1: a better film than the one, the one I made, but.
Speaker 5: Also like like because because after I finished watching it,
Speaker 5: I was like, I was trying to think like I
Speaker 5: was attached to ET, but I was surprised. I was
Speaker 5: attached more to Elliott's relationship with ET than ET itself.
Speaker 5: But then that's kind of a blessing disguise, because if
Speaker 5: ET did more and was more animated, then you'd probably
Speaker 5: lose the performance from Henry playing Ali. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 5: just that connection where he wants to build and he's
Speaker 5: teaching him things and and the globe and the whole
Speaker 5: time I was thinking, I was like, Wow, they've got
Speaker 5: to show him all this stuff, when now, if you
Speaker 5: make that film, you just show it all on the tablet.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's it's really funny because Et. I like
Speaker 1: the way they reveal Et because Et, it's at the start,
Speaker 1: is kind of scary, even though you still might find
Speaker 1: him a bit scary, and I said, my son certainly did.
Speaker 4: But the idea is that he kind of get glimpses
Speaker 4: of him.
Speaker 1: He's scary, even the noises he's making, and it's it's
Speaker 1: quite like a deep kind of growl. And then you
Speaker 1: learn to love him.
Speaker 3: But he comes in different shapes and forms.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, because he and he has the neck that
Speaker 1: kind of you know, the glow of the heart. It's
Speaker 1: a great nice moment.
Speaker 5: That's that's really nice because I mean as simple as that,
Speaker 5: that like that sort of just showing that imagery. It
Speaker 5: really because I didn't know that was coming and I
Speaker 5: forgot about that. So that's how good the film is
Speaker 5: that even as an adult, I was fooled.
Speaker 3: Towards the ends, I'm like, oh, this sucks, Like why
Speaker 3: is he.
Speaker 5: In an eski? I was like, this is no good?
Speaker 5: And then when his heart keecks in, I was like,
Speaker 5: oh he is alive. And then but then I kept
Speaker 5: because always like you tried not the question, I was like,
Speaker 5: do you do that on purpose? Because I feel like
Speaker 5: how did he end up in the drain? Do you
Speaker 5: know how they they? They can you explain that? Because
Speaker 5: they I was like, here we go, he's calling home.
Speaker 5: They've said, off the gadgets, Elliott's seeking. He falls asleep
Speaker 5: and then he just disappears and it's next to next
Speaker 5: to a drain, like did he go on another bender?
Speaker 1: He got in the cans again? If you live where
Speaker 1: I live, if you do it down the local aquidut,
Speaker 1: you'll always find you cans down there. No. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean this, it's funny some people and we when I'm
Speaker 1: writing scripts, it's often often a discussions. You'll have what's
Speaker 1: allowed to happen off camera? And what can what do
Speaker 1: we need to see? And some people and producers and
Speaker 1: directors and other writers are really finicky about needing to
Speaker 1: know the details of what happens. And sometimes they're absolutely
Speaker 1: right something like that. My mind just goes, well, he
Speaker 1: just went exploring because he's an alien from you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: well out of space and he's on Earth and he
Speaker 1: just went to explore it and we don't really need
Speaker 1: to know what happened.
Speaker 5: And maybe, and maybe that's the psychology of out today
Speaker 5: that like maybe thinking, hey, you got to get home.
Speaker 3: How do you get home? Well, that's your clear focus.
Speaker 5: Okay, you are stuck in another country, whereas you find
Speaker 5: your embassy and you make that call and you get
Speaker 5: out of that country. With him, I was like, what
Speaker 5: are you doing? What are you doing next to a
Speaker 5: creek fishing? Halfway through I tried.
Speaker 1: To ma guy for himself here, you know, fine with
Speaker 1: the speak and spell and you know the blade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that, like I thought, yeah, like I questioned it.
Speaker 5: But then already, even if you question it for a
Speaker 5: split second, you are lost to oh no, he's sick,
Speaker 5: and then and then and then oh that's another one.
Speaker 5: The like is it a montage with the with the
Speaker 5: with the astronauts, So you know there's that scene where
Speaker 5: all the astronauts appear.
Speaker 3: Are they real people.
Speaker 1: Or is that a no? They're they're they're they're they're real.
Speaker 1: They're they're real people. I'm not sure why. I think
Speaker 1: they're sposed to be, like hazmat suits are okay, but
Speaker 1: basically but they were atauts.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, which because I thought there was they.
Speaker 4: Had actually written on there, so there.
Speaker 5: They are because I thought that was a dream sequence, right,
Speaker 5: So when that happened. I was like, oh, no, he's dreaming,
Speaker 5: it's not happening. I was like, no, it is happening,
Speaker 5: happening now.
Speaker 1: Like but but even within that scene, and I'm really
Speaker 1: in script because we are literally like finishing scripts for
Speaker 1: to say married. So, but there's a bit where she
Speaker 1: she goes to the door, but the daughter's a national.
Speaker 1: Let's call them a national even though they're not national,
Speaker 1: there's a nationnaut there screen. They run back the other
Speaker 1: way through the kitchen, there's another astronaut and then they
Speaker 1: it looks like the astronauts almost got them, almost like
Speaker 1: got their hands on it. And then the next scene
Speaker 1: they're just running through the loundes room and the astronauts
Speaker 1: are a fair way behind. It's like that doesn't quite
Speaker 1: add up, but it doesn't bother me. I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: it more from a you know, details.
Speaker 5: It doesn't help that the astronauts are moving like zombies.
Speaker 5: They really slowly, like there's a monsters from amount of space.
Speaker 1: What I do love about Spielberg is his ability to
Speaker 1: kind of like, no, it's a movie, so it's about entertainment.
Speaker 1: Like that shot of the the next shot is like
Speaker 1: like six astronauts walking along the street kind of coming
Speaker 1: up over the horizon of the road, and it's brilliant
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 4: Nobody who's walking like that?
Speaker 1: Where are they coming from?
Speaker 5: Yeah, nobody ever walks in a road like that, you know,
Speaker 5: And also like it's the team And I love that
Speaker 5: because I questioned through it throughout the start.
Speaker 3: It is like the shot of the keys, the keys
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 4: Guy to start these characters called keys. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: got keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well he's the actual character's name, but it's who
Speaker 1: what is credited as who?
Speaker 3: Then I love it. At the end of the film,
Speaker 3: you're like, you're like I love it because you go from.
Speaker 5: Who's this guy? Because I think is it a cowboy?
Speaker 5: Like is it a cowboy hunting aliens?
Speaker 3: Like is he official?
Speaker 1: Is he not?
Speaker 3: And then everyone else is hanging around him. It just
Speaker 3: seems like like a group of guys from the pub
Speaker 3: where let's go get some aliens.
Speaker 1: Well, it's really funny because you're in the first scene
Speaker 1: whether it especially takes off and there's like six or
Speaker 1: seven again kind of FBI agents who who kind of
Speaker 1: run with their torches and stuff. They're all that silly
Speaker 1: weather because you don't see an adult's face until the
Speaker 1: mum and they Yeah, they keep adults kind of away until.
Speaker 3: They really need stroke of genius.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant, it's so good. But they're all like the
Speaker 1: same shape, the same size, same light. It's that was
Speaker 1: kind of weird. Do you ever feel like you're watching
Speaker 1: Stranger Things?
Speaker 3: Hown't seen it?
Speaker 5: And this is and this is and I and I
Speaker 5: and I've been holding off because I wanted to see
Speaker 5: Et before Stranger Things.
Speaker 3: So I've actually been.
Speaker 5: Holding off because everyone's been talking about it, and I
Speaker 5: didn't want that to claud my judgment of ET and
Speaker 5: I reckon I'd probably even look at it differently.
Speaker 3: Or go, oh, maybe it's not as good as Stranger Things.
Speaker 1: That's what I was.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to see it it's entire and then
Speaker 5: just go, Okay, that's the film.
Speaker 1: I thin he's the right way to do it, because
Speaker 1: now you can just enjoy Stranger Things. No, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a homage to ET and Spilberd.
Speaker 5: Then I love it with keys because at the end
Speaker 5: I'm like, and again again you can you come back
Speaker 5: to script mode.
Speaker 3: But right then you're like, oh, Keith, he's hooking up
Speaker 3: with them I was like, I mean, where's this, Like
Speaker 3: even then he doesn't weird. Look, I was like, I mean,
Speaker 3: after everything's gone, I mean, what a story to start
Speaker 3: a relationship.
Speaker 1: But it's funny to say that. I didn't think of
Speaker 1: it quite in the same way. But I did think
Speaker 1: that he is almost a father figure that Elliott kind
Speaker 1: of needs it, you know, like because his dad's you know,
Speaker 1: he's in Mexico or wherever he is, And yeah, he is,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a good guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And then and like you don't know he's
Speaker 3: a good guy.
Speaker 5: And even then you think he's tricking him at the start,
Speaker 5: going hey, I've been looking for someone like this since
Speaker 5: I was a ten year old boy, Like you can't,
Speaker 5: I've still I didn't believe it. Yeah, and then right
Speaker 5: at the end where he's like, oh no, like you know,
Speaker 5: I want to be here. This is what I still
Speaker 5: didn't understand what he's ranking was because like a little
Speaker 5: bit of me is like everyone's got a jump to do,
Speaker 5: and he's like he's got free rage. I was like,
Speaker 5: is he the CEO of NASA or like yeah, you
Speaker 5: know he was chasing them at the start.
Speaker 3: Is this a hobby?
Speaker 1: Of his and one of those keys for yeah, really
Speaker 1: like who's getting around with that many keys if you
Speaker 1: are in a position of power and.
Speaker 3: Keys with a little leather patch behind him?
Speaker 5: Also that because I've got I had, like I said,
Speaker 5: of keys with like you can flip them over like
Speaker 5: a pocket knife. Which it was like this, you know
Speaker 5: every second person in Brunswick has one. And then I
Speaker 5: was looking his keys and then I was like and
Speaker 5: once you get out of film made, I was like,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, there's a lot of shot of
Speaker 5: the keys, like this is going to have to be
Speaker 5: something down the track like yeah, it was like, there's
Speaker 5: more keys, there's more more keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does it open? Make the keys of the
Speaker 1: spaceship we get? Make to the writing? Melissa Matheson wrote
Speaker 1: that that the shooting script was basically the first draft
Speaker 1: that she wrote. What which that makes you a little
Speaker 1: bit sick, doesn't it?
Speaker 4: It makes it chicken and it gives you little bit
Speaker 4: of weird home.
Speaker 5: But then is it is it one of those things
Speaker 5: where and I've been reading a couple of books on writing,
Speaker 5: is it one of those things where everything you wrote
Speaker 5: leading up to that led to that moment? That day
Speaker 5: where you sat down and it was just there and
Speaker 5: it was going to come out well.
Speaker 1: I think the way she wrote it was she would
Speaker 1: write for she would work with Spielberg. They would like
Speaker 1: brainstorm and come and get and then she would write
Speaker 1: for three weeks and then have another three weeks of
Speaker 1: work with Spielberg, write for another three weeks, which actually
Speaker 1: sounds like a great way to work because you are
Speaker 1: working with obviously the man himself, and then you're basically
Speaker 1: blocking out scenes and you're kind of working out you're
Speaker 1: breaking them down, and then you just go and write
Speaker 1: the scenes and once you've once you've done that grand
Speaker 1: work of this is a scene breakdown. This is what's
Speaker 1: going to happen if you get those right, the dialogue
Speaker 1: and you know, and the rest of it's kind of easy,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And how much I assume because he was so
Speaker 5: good at improv in there, like, did they let him
Speaker 5: do much improv on set?
Speaker 3: Because I assume back then, like.
Speaker 5: As much as time frames are, I mean, when they
Speaker 5: spend half the time with mechanical problems with that that thing,
Speaker 5: rather than having time to improve, Like.
Speaker 4: I don't know much about Henry Thomas improv.
Speaker 1: I've heard Drew barrymore improved a little bit, Yeah, quite
Speaker 1: a bit. I think there's a famous one where she says,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. That was she just improvised. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because she got the role because she rolled up as
Speaker 1: an eight year old or so younger, probably younger imagine
Speaker 1: what would you maybe five, and she was she was
Speaker 1: telling Spielberg that she was in a punk band and
Speaker 1: she just played like Madison Square Garden the night before
Speaker 1: and it was sold out, and I think Spielberg watching
Speaker 1: going to be where Spielberg said, I could actually use
Speaker 1: her imagination in this, like you may even bring something.
Speaker 1: Not only is she you know, great lectress, but she
Speaker 1: could actually even help with this story.
Speaker 5: It's just and I was saying that to my partner.
Speaker 5: It was the one scene that blew me away. It
Speaker 5: is all the cute scenes, but the one scene is
Speaker 5: her in the car on the way there, where you know,
Speaker 5: and your kid is just clamoring all over you and
Speaker 5: you just want to just shut up and be able
Speaker 5: to talk to the adult.
Speaker 3: It's like in that scene, I was like, you are
Speaker 3: the mom. You are the mom.
Speaker 5: Like the chemistry that's so simple. But I was just
Speaker 5: like that is amazing, Like it's actually beyond acting. It
Speaker 5: is you are playing like it's make believe and it's
Speaker 5: become real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I feel like et could be the most
Speaker 1: like magical films, like the perfect balance yeah, of feeling
Speaker 1: like it's real. And I think it holds up really well.
Speaker 1: Like I was watching it this morning. I gave it
Speaker 1: a quick another you know, I flicked through a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure if you can make films that
Speaker 1: are set in contemporary times of kids cheekly evading the
Speaker 1: police on bmx's or you know, yeah whatever, but the
Speaker 1: popular mode of transport would be today. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: you do it differently and all of that. So there's
Speaker 1: a kind of innocence to the film.
Speaker 5: But also when looking through the lens of nostalgia as well,
Speaker 5: which I think, you know, whether films can be made
Speaker 5: nowadays that in you know, thirty forty years time, that
Speaker 5: they'll be able to do the same because everything has changed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just you get lost into that world.
Speaker 3: That's what I enjoyed.
Speaker 5: It was like ordering pizza with a landline that is
Speaker 5: so long, that can stretch so far. It just brought
Speaker 5: back such beautiful memories. I was like, it's knocking stuff
Speaker 5: off the table. I did that as a kid, Like yeah,
Speaker 5: little things like that, or just like the cars themselves,
Speaker 5: like I feel like I got lost and they because
Speaker 5: it moves so beautifully and the pace of the film
Speaker 5: is so good that I don't know. There was a
Speaker 5: moment where I was like I was lost in that
Speaker 5: world again, and I just don't know if films because
Speaker 5: we produced so many more and and you know, and
Speaker 5: because you know, you know, with technology, it's moving so quickly,
Speaker 5: Like I'm just thinking, will.
Speaker 3: My daughter have that?
Speaker 5: Like so, my daughter saw her first movie she's five,
Speaker 5: Toy Story. Of course, now it was a great choice,
Speaker 5: but it was the same thing where I was like,
Speaker 5: you know, we were trying to pick out what film
Speaker 5: to do it, and I was going to watch this
Speaker 5: with her with ET, and I'm glad I didn't because
Speaker 5: she got scared of Toy Story the first one. I
Speaker 5: was like, what is she going to be like this
Speaker 5: with ET? But it's those things where I was like,
Speaker 5: I want to look at my favorite kids films and
Speaker 5: and you know this ET is one of them now
Speaker 5: and a little part of me after watching it, I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, it's a bit sad I didn't watch
Speaker 5: it as a kid, Yeah, because I really enjoyed it
Speaker 5: as an adult. What I would have been blown away
Speaker 5: as a kid.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing it at the at the movies we
Speaker 1: went into the city. I remember for two reasons. One
Speaker 1: because of the film and just crying my eyes out,
Speaker 1: but before we went to see it, and I remember
Speaker 1: this for years, and I think I only just worked
Speaker 1: that recently. I kind of spun around. It was my mom,
Speaker 1: my brother, sisters, and that's another family friend. And I
Speaker 1: spun around this on the spot, just kind of spun
Speaker 1: around and I started spinning. My mom was gone, and
Speaker 1: I was like, it took me a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: In my mind, it took me a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to work out where they were, and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I was lost. I remember I always had to see
Speaker 1: how I got lost before I when I saw ry
Speaker 1: T and I think what had happened. I just spun around,
Speaker 1: but I didn't quite make it the three sixty I
Speaker 1: decided I did. I did like a one eighty, and
Speaker 1: I just Mom was behind me. I it was probably
Speaker 1: it was probably thirty seconds where Mom didn't even know
Speaker 1: that I thought I was lost, but I remember being
Speaker 1: already a little bit on edge when I saw the film,
Speaker 1: and then I watched and I just I, yeah, lost it.
Speaker 1: I cried behard.
Speaker 5: But it's really interesting because, like I remember seeing Rob
Speaker 5: Williams Toy Story with my grandparents.
Speaker 1: Which is when we used that.
Speaker 3: So that's the one way he's the worst in a toy.
Speaker 1: Factory, right is it's just called toy.
Speaker 3: It's just called toy, Okay, so it's just got toy.
Speaker 5: But I remember my grandparents told me that, and then
Speaker 5: my grandfather Imil was quite moved.
Speaker 3: It was quite It's got a bit of a dark
Speaker 3: but I remember watching it.
Speaker 5: And then we turn around and my grandma Grandpa's disappeared, right,
Speaker 5: and he's.
Speaker 3: Like he just left the cinema?
Speaker 1: Did he spin around?
Speaker 3: This is so funny.
Speaker 5: We walk out, Grandma is just yelling, can't find him anywhere,
Speaker 5: and then his she visually comes out of another cinema,
Speaker 5: which was that that movie with Jeremy Iron's Damages, that sex.
Speaker 3: Banda.
Speaker 5: I just remember just going because he walked down the pos.
Speaker 3: Next to it with his hers straddling him and they're
Speaker 3: having sex.
Speaker 1: Pitch a tent was he. My dad went like, we're
Speaker 1: on very few, very few interstate trips, but he went
Speaker 1: to occasionally he would go to Canberra and he he said,
Speaker 1: ye had a night off, so he went and saw
Speaker 1: a movie. And he went and saw a crash like
Speaker 1: the idea of my David seen movie by himself. I
Speaker 1: it would be the only time I could ever image.
Speaker 1: But he went to the David Cronaber Crash. He got
Speaker 1: like an erotic people we were turned on by buying
Speaker 1: car accidents.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a
Speaker 7: destructive event, a liberation of sexual energy.
Speaker 1: And he said, I didn't like it at all. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, surely when you looked up which movie to see,
Speaker 1: it would have explained that to some degree that it
Speaker 1: was an erotic kind of movie.
Speaker 5: It's funny you bring that movie out because when I
Speaker 5: was a kid, I when we go to the video stores,
Speaker 5: I would just be looking for nudity and look at
Speaker 5: the title.
Speaker 3: That is all I would look at. And I remember
Speaker 3: I was able to get Crash and slip it in there,
Speaker 3: and that.
Speaker 5: Was the first time I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 5: gonna be a good movie. And I was like I'm
Speaker 5: not enjoying this. There's nothing about this that you know,
Speaker 5: he's they're making love next to a car while she's
Speaker 5: stroking the scars.
Speaker 1: Don't find car accidents sexy at all, they would have thought,
Speaker 1: So can you understand? And you get I feel it.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe answered. Do you feel that you
Speaker 1: can understand why this is considered the classic movie?
Speaker 5: Yes, totally, because well it's uh, well I can at first,
Speaker 5: because I did the same thing. I looked at a
Speaker 5: little bit this morning. I looked at a cover of
Speaker 5: my favorite scenes. And then the fact that and that
Speaker 5: sort of hit me. The fact that I already had
Speaker 5: favorite scenes from a movie I just watched made me
Speaker 5: realize this is good. And then and then that and
Speaker 5: I was never bought for a movie that was that old,
Speaker 5: and I was, you know, invested, because I was looking
Speaker 5: forward to talking about a movie because it's been a
Speaker 5: while since I've done that.
Speaker 3: But the fact that I cried like that's I was
Speaker 3: not expecting that. And I wasn't going in there going
Speaker 3: this is going to be a tear jeker. I was
Speaker 3: actually just trying to find two hours in a day
Speaker 3: to be able to watch a movie. Yeah, that's pretty.
Speaker 5: And then to be able to sit back and then
Speaker 5: get lost and get lost into the fantasy of it,
Speaker 5: like you know. And there were moments where I'd slip
Speaker 5: in and out because there'd be moments I'd been watching
Speaker 5: this going God, I wish I could buy a house
Speaker 5: that big, to just going wow, it's amazing. Those you know,
Speaker 5: little balls of played are in the air spinning around,
Speaker 5: going what a great way to explain where you're from,
Speaker 5: Like just all those tiny little things.
Speaker 3: Like I loved it so much. It was a laugh
Speaker 3: out loud moment.
Speaker 5: And I'd already seen the imagery before, but when Ets
Speaker 5: stressed up, man, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's really funny.
Speaker 5: It's so funny because my daughter has done it with
Speaker 5: every doll, she's done it with a little brother, and
Speaker 5: I was just like, of course you would do that
Speaker 5: with an alien.
Speaker 1: And it was really one of the changes I made
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two the version was to just
Speaker 1: change ET's the eyes because and this is like this
Speaker 1: goes to show that Spielberry wasn't looking at completely like
Speaker 1: he said, nothing's wrong with this film. There are just
Speaker 1: a few things that if I had an extra hour
Speaker 1: and a day here or the extra hours or the technology,
Speaker 1: I would have done it like this, and he just
Speaker 1: he gives in two thousand and the two version, which
Speaker 1: I really like. He gives Et a slightly more embarrassed
Speaker 1: look and that's all. And that's all it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really nice it's a really nice touch.
Speaker 3: And also the other touch I really like, is he
Speaker 3: the genius he is? And I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: spoken about that about the Spielberg.
Speaker 5: I've never been I've never gone out going, Oh, he's
Speaker 5: made this film, I'm going to go see it.
Speaker 3: I've never no.
Speaker 5: Because if I was thinking about this as well, when
Speaker 5: you ask me to do that, I was like, as
Speaker 5: a kid, I was trying to remember all the films
Speaker 5: I went to like and I was more at TV
Speaker 5: like I Great with Faulty Towers and all the classic
Speaker 5: comedies that any movie I went to see the cinema
Speaker 5: was it comedy? Like people go like, what's one of
Speaker 5: the favorite he had ever seen a cinema?
Speaker 3: Mine was what about Bob? Nothing of that, There's nothing
Speaker 3: Murray Bill Murray Murray or the other one with that
Speaker 3: was that the one with Chunk Candy Catton Ball.
Speaker 5: There is another one, like like I love those classic once.
Speaker 5: I never went to see the Big like I'd see
Speaker 5: a couple of the Bee hitters, But with this one,
Speaker 5: I was like, the use of light in the room
Speaker 5: in Elliott's room is just that for me was just like,
Speaker 5: you know, not to go all you know technical on it.
Speaker 5: I was like every time I was in there, I
Speaker 5: was in his room, like I felt like I was
Speaker 5: sitting in there sharing the moment with him. And that's
Speaker 5: when I was like, now you've got the closet. Like
Speaker 5: for me, that was the real big selling a point.
Speaker 5: That's why I think when the whole house changes and
Speaker 5: it turns to a hospital's like how dare you do.
Speaker 3: This to his house? Like I even felt that. I
Speaker 3: was like, you can't do that.
Speaker 5: This is this is where ET's first place was on earth,
Speaker 5: like leave him alone.
Speaker 1: Well, that came from the idea that they couldn't find
Speaker 1: I think a hospital too, because I think it was
Speaker 1: written that they were going to move them off to
Speaker 1: a hospital. They couldn't find a place to shoot, And
Speaker 1: I think Spielberg was flying into La and saw these
Speaker 1: a bunch of houses being renovated and had those sheets
Speaker 1: on them Okay, that's what. Yeah, it's like a makeshift.
Speaker 1: They basically come out. So again that's talking.
Speaker 5: About being able to just make a movie on the run,
Speaker 5: like you know what it's like making television and you
Speaker 5: have to make those decisions. But nowadays, you know, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, and I work forbid in television. You know,
Speaker 5: the scripts, the production, the money's already signed off. There's
Speaker 5: very little to move. Yeah, But as you're developing it
Speaker 5: and you're able to change it like that before you get.
Speaker 1: Very rarely though, when you are giving boundaries and they
Speaker 1: might be budgetary or they might be you know, we
Speaker 1: can't find the location, you come up with a better
Speaker 1: way of doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it happens more often than that.
Speaker 5: And it becomes exciting because it's a problem to fix
Speaker 5: creatively that you're already creating. Yeah, but then it's a
Speaker 5: problem that you're fixed in that same mindset and.
Speaker 4: You realize what's import to actually do this scene.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have this image of Bilberg having
Speaker 1: this kind of idealic kind of view of suburbia, but
Speaker 1: it's actually reasonably bleaks. I'm not sure if the blea's
Speaker 1: wrong way, but it's kind of realistic, Like the house
Speaker 1: isn't it's not like a beautiful house. It's like a
Speaker 1: nice house, but the drinking, soft drink, smoke. It's a
Speaker 1: messy house. There's broken toys.
Speaker 3: Yeah it felt real. Yeah, yeah, real in the sense.
Speaker 4: That it's a broken home, you know, as a family
Speaker 4: set up goes.
Speaker 5: Because I think I like that sense of suburbia. I've
Speaker 5: always grown up in a city, but I had that
Speaker 5: sense of community. I had friends across the road would
Speaker 5: all get together and go to the local park, and
Speaker 5: I feel like that's what I want from my kids
Speaker 5: as well, like we've got family next door. But it's
Speaker 5: that thing where people are moving around so much, like
Speaker 5: so much more that you kind of lose that sense
Speaker 5: of community and that when you see a court bowl
Speaker 5: and everyone around it, like people know each other, the kids,
Speaker 5: like I kind of again, I feel like that that
Speaker 5: was also nostalgic as well, Like I know it still
Speaker 5: happens and that, but I feel like that happens less
Speaker 5: and less and so in the film, I kind of
Speaker 5: like it that everyone knew each other and everyone right
Speaker 5: at the end when the when, and I love the
Speaker 5: symmetery where you know the guys and the bikes who
Speaker 5: are teasing him but they're here to help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're back, you know. And then just the shot
Speaker 3: of I was like, I loved it as I was
Speaker 3: like the shot is like, you know, like, yeah, he goes,
Speaker 3: puts the headphones back on, head birds. He said, the
Speaker 3: Bella Clava.
Speaker 1: There's Bella Clava and there's like ann for Dora, but
Speaker 1: one of those old old star kind of racing caps on.
Speaker 1: My granddad used to wear one of these through.
Speaker 3: Me and I was like, okay, they help, No, they're
Speaker 3: gonna rob it back.
Speaker 1: Did you like some of the Star Wars references ares
Speaker 1: a couple in there? There's you a Star Wars fan.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I've
Speaker 3: watched I've watched them.
Speaker 1: But you saw Yoda, Yeah, yeah, Halloween and the Halloween
Speaker 1: that was I thought that was a nice bit and
Speaker 1: also very figure the figurines, the figurines as well, which
Speaker 1: he starts playing with the figurines to show him. I
Speaker 1: thought it would have been nice though as a Star
Speaker 1: Wars fan, because he gets squeido and then he gets
Speaker 1: hammer hair and if you like the canteen creatures from
Speaker 1: Star wars. But if he and then he has a
Speaker 1: little gun battle between Grido and Hammed, surely you put
Speaker 1: Han in there. He put Han Solo in there, which
Speaker 1: is also Harrison for reference, a.
Speaker 5: Genius, but he wouldn't have done it is if the
Speaker 5: guy delivering the.
Speaker 3: Pizza was Han Solo.
Speaker 1: Well, funny enough, Harrison Ford had a scene in the
Speaker 1: film after Elliott gets drunk in class. He goes to
Speaker 1: the principal's office and Harrison Ford is going to be
Speaker 1: the principal telling him and he and Elliott levitates about
Speaker 1: he's got his back.
Speaker 4: Never you were never going to see Harrison Ford's face.
Speaker 1: They shot it, they didn't put it in, and he
Speaker 1: levitates as Harrison was looking at the window talking to
Speaker 1: him about responsibility and stuff like that. But the Spielberg
Speaker 1: thought would be too distracting and took it out. It
Speaker 1: was going to put it back in the two thousand
Speaker 1: and two version, but this thought again, this film's perfect.
Speaker 4: Doesn't need extra scenes.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't lie to your son, see your own away,
Speaker 2: your own best friend, or your own worst enemy.
Speaker 5: That's like I'm always curious now after watching it, like
Speaker 5: what are the deleted scenes?
Speaker 3: Like? Like other I assume there's a lot of them.
Speaker 3: It's a film.
Speaker 5: They always shoot too much. But it's like what could
Speaker 5: you have left in? What did you leave out? Because otherwise, yeah,
Speaker 5: as it flows like there was a bit where because
Speaker 5: you get sucked in at the start and then the
Speaker 5: pace picks up. I had to get used to the pace,
Speaker 5: like and I'm watching kids shows like I should be
Speaker 5: used to the pace. But even then I was like,
Speaker 5: I've gotta I've got to stay up, like where are
Speaker 5: we now? Okay, you know we're in the forest.
Speaker 3: You know. Now he's making the equipment like you know,
Speaker 3: now he's phoning home. Oh that's the.
Speaker 5: Other one I for my whole life E T Phone home.
Speaker 5: I have heard I have comedians reference it. I've heard
Speaker 5: it everywhere and it wasn't until I actually saw it
Speaker 5: in its entirety where they're explaining him how to say
Speaker 5: ET phone home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really, they really do bang the idea of
Speaker 1: phoning home home home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, home.
Speaker 5: And then and whether if you were to put your
Speaker 5: child like you know, say, you know, when Minka turns
Speaker 5: eight years old, I'll stick it the go.
Speaker 3: You need to watch ET.
Speaker 1: I don't know what age one of those what age.
Speaker 5: I reckon eight just now, because I mean, I reckon
Speaker 5: more than ever. We do wrap our kids in cotton
Speaker 5: ball like like you know, they like the fact that
Speaker 5: Minka was.
Speaker 3: Scared at Toy Story. Oh my god, our childcare they
Speaker 3: had a movie night. They'd rat it to you. I've
Speaker 3: never seen most kids scream and cry. It was just
Speaker 3: it was everyone like even and they're like, yeah, we've
Speaker 3: made a mistake because at the start, it's my Minca
Speaker 3: was boiling. Other kid just ran out around straight into
Speaker 3: a door like it was it was Mayhem, like it
Speaker 3: was Mayhem.
Speaker 5: And then it's like, okay, well you kind of have
Speaker 5: to introduce those films, and.
Speaker 3: But I reckon It's it's a really good one. I reckon.
Speaker 5: I reckon Minka because both my kids are quite empathetic.
Speaker 5: So I'm I'm I'm really they've got you know, my
Speaker 5: partner's German. Not to say she's not empathetic, but I'm
Speaker 5: a very sensitive and emotional guy German.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you weren't going you weren't
Speaker 1: going there, why I mention it no.
Speaker 5: Stereotype, that's true, but it's it's the thing where it's
Speaker 5: like they just cry easily.
Speaker 3: They just they feel other people's feelings.
Speaker 5: And I think especially with film and televisions, like even
Speaker 5: civil television shows like Bluey, they're obsessed with at the
Speaker 5: moment something goes wrong, no cry, like especially my son,
Speaker 5: Like so with that film, and I feel like I
Speaker 5: want to get them ready and there's okay to cry
Speaker 5: and enjoy it because if I if I'm crying as
Speaker 5: an adult knowing what's going to happen, if they're watching
Speaker 5: it at the same time as a kid. And that's
Speaker 5: the other thing, the phone home bit, It's like will
Speaker 5: that translate with them? Because with technology, you just go,
Speaker 5: We'll just get your phone out, Yeah, get your phone out.
Speaker 5: The satellite's in there. Yeah, Like why wouldn't you Well,
Speaker 5: I think it.
Speaker 4: Still will because I mean, certainly the.
Speaker 1: Australia's MBN wouldn't cover a phone call from a phone
Speaker 1: or any kind of communication between Australia and wherever ET's
Speaker 1: Planet is. But it's still the idea that you need
Speaker 1: to have coverage, yeah Sue ET's home planet.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah. And also and then understanding like when
Speaker 3: I was watching it as well, it's like it was
Speaker 3: part of me. I was like it how far is it?
Speaker 3: How far is your home?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Are they watching?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: It was nice to have those questions go and again again.
Speaker 5: It shows the side of a good film. Is I
Speaker 5: know what the ending? I just knew because of I
Speaker 5: know what the ending was going to be, Yet I
Speaker 5: was still sucked in to the emotion of losing et.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you become more emotional? I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a thing that's developing. Are you becoming more emotional
Speaker 1: watching movies post kids like that you've had kids?
Speaker 5: It is phenomenal, isn't it is? It is bizarre And
Speaker 5: I think I have cried more in the last especially
Speaker 5: even with my son, with the second one, I've cried
Speaker 5: more in the last three years than I have I
Speaker 5: reckon the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: What's the film that you've cried in that you're a
Speaker 1: little bit embarrassed about.
Speaker 5: Well, the last time I cried we were watching it
Speaker 5: was it was just a television series and the kid
Speaker 5: goes missing. And as soon as the kid goes missing,
Speaker 5: it wasn't a build up to it. I was like,
Speaker 5: what do you mean the kid's missus?
Speaker 3: Like, I can't.
Speaker 5: There's is a scene when the door opened, there's no
Speaker 5: kid in there and bang I was. I was just
Speaker 5: couldn't stop crying, like and it's like and we're halfway in,
Speaker 5: like we haven't even we don't even know what's having
Speaker 5: the start. I'm just crying because I was just like
Speaker 5: I think about this, like, you know, I make them,
Speaker 5: I make them recite the telephone number every second day
Speaker 5: so they remember our mobile telephone numbers.
Speaker 3: In case that happened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's not that I think about it, but
Speaker 5: it's just like as soon as something with a kid,
Speaker 5: yeah it is, I am just I am just crying,
Speaker 5: and then you'll love this Pete and it's just like
Speaker 5: you go, yes, kids up, you know you've created them.
Speaker 3: But then it's only having a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: I was like, I do cry a lot and I
Speaker 5: love it. And my kids are open about their emotions.
Speaker 5: And our daycare provided comes up becaues, hey, can we
Speaker 5: just have a word here. It's about mateo and we're like, oh,
Speaker 5: there's everything. It's like no, no, it's it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 5: But we were having some quiet time and we were
Speaker 5: playing some meditation music and they all lie back and
Speaker 5: they just focus on their breathing. I was like, yes, we.
Speaker 3: Are from Brunswick.
Speaker 5: I was like, of course you do this and you
Speaker 5: do yoga everything, and they said, she goes but we
Speaker 5: were looking and they were all just looking up and
Speaker 5: they were thinking about stuff. And she looks across to
Speaker 5: Mateo tears quiet, just tears rolling down the side, just
Speaker 5: just crying but silently. She just goes up to and
Speaker 5: she's like, are you okay, and he goes, I'm really
Speaker 5: I'm really upset, but I don't know why.
Speaker 3: It could be the music. I'm okay.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, like you are just
Speaker 5: about to turn three, and that you can listen to
Speaker 5: something and be moved and let the tears come out,
Speaker 5: but you don't know why, but you're not scared of it.
Speaker 5: I was like, if you are, Like I just couldn't
Speaker 5: believe that that was. It's like because as a kid
Speaker 5: I struggled crying ntil I was eighteen, Like I struggled
Speaker 5: so hard because we migrated from Holland and when we
Speaker 5: left I don't remember that, but I remember, like, I
Speaker 5: don't remember.
Speaker 3: Everyone crying, but everyone cried at the airport.
Speaker 5: So when we migrated to Australia, I was three three,
Speaker 5: so two and a half three, So for me, it
Speaker 5: wasn't until pretty much I was eighteen. I could cry
Speaker 5: the only time even then when we left Holland, I
Speaker 5: wanted to cry, but I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I throw up on the plane. It was bizarre.
Speaker 5: I just it was such a I think it was
Speaker 5: quite traumatic, but I never knew how to deal with
Speaker 5: it that I was so young. So when they told
Speaker 5: me that story a couple of days ago about how
Speaker 5: that my son already with something that I struggled with,
Speaker 5: and it took me so long to be able to
Speaker 5: let out that he can openly be that emotional and
Speaker 5: you know, not happily, not to his detriment. Like yo,
Speaker 5: I wanted to be able to hold down a relationship in.
Speaker 3: The future and not cry after sex every time. But
Speaker 3: I was just like wow, Like I.
Speaker 1: Was, why is that guy crying at the lectern? Sorry
Speaker 1: I brought in the moment?
Speaker 3: Why is it so much spitt us?
Speaker 1: Look at this slide for a moment without comment. I
Speaker 1: think it speaks for itself.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I'm looking forward because that's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's a great website I forgot what it is call
Speaker 5: where you can actually look up the title of the
Speaker 5: movie for kids, and it gives you, Yeah, it gives
Speaker 5: you marking and what bits to look out for, and
Speaker 5: it does make you realize that a lot of movies
Speaker 5: fully dated and there are references that you need to
Speaker 5: explain that we had to get the new versions of
Speaker 5: The Magic Faraway Tree recently because there's characters You're like, WHOA,
Speaker 5: come on to eat a light and come on.
Speaker 1: Rain it in.
Speaker 5: So I'm looking forward to, you know, because ET is
Speaker 5: another one, and there's a couple of other kid movies
Speaker 5: that I haven't seen, but now after seeing AT, I mean,
Speaker 5: holds up.
Speaker 3: We are there any others?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Any other big ones?
Speaker 1: I say, I think AT is is, like I think clearly,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say clearly the best because it works
Speaker 1: on both levels quite clearly. You have watched it, and
Speaker 1: what you said before I think is worth this going
Speaker 1: over again, Like you watched it in a period where
Speaker 1: you just were trying to, you know, squeeze your shoehorn
Speaker 1: it into your day to do this podcast, and which
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for. But I know it's like watching
Speaker 1: those and under those conditions, when you you're watching out
Speaker 1: of a sense of duty, and that emotionally got to you.
Speaker 1: That you actually end up blubbering. You took a photo.
Speaker 1: We would love to get that photo up on the
Speaker 1: socials and that's like, that's incredible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I know, and it really because in the
Speaker 5: end I was like I thought, yeah, if I'm comfortable enough,
Speaker 5: but it was just like you know that thing where
Speaker 5: I was like, you're running around kids, and and also
Speaker 5: I really wanted to watch it at night, but as
Speaker 5: we work every.
Speaker 1: Night, absolutely some of the picks up films are up
Speaker 1: is incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the opening sequence to that is that will that.
Speaker 1: Has you in tears. Yea to begin me as the
Speaker 1: starting point yeah for that movie. Then it kind of
Speaker 1: works in reverse where you kind of makes you feel
Speaker 1: better by the end.
Speaker 3: Because I did. I did cry when I watched Up
Speaker 3: and that's that sequence.
Speaker 5: But then it's amazing where your mind goes, because when
Speaker 5: I watched that, I was like, oh, this is so
Speaker 5: much better than Roger Rappers. I was just watched I
Speaker 5: know where I went there, and I was like, this
Speaker 5: is just so much better. I'm not bad, I'm just
Speaker 5: strong that way.
Speaker 3: It's just so weird where your mind goes.
Speaker 1: Well, man, thank you so much for it. First of all,
Speaker 1: watching et for us where you ain't seen nothing yet,
Speaker 1: and for coming in and being so open and honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, Pete. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: It was I actually did not know where this was
Speaker 3: going to go.
Speaker 1: And because we are recording this before we release them,
Speaker 1: so you haven't yeh, haven't even had to listen to
Speaker 1: episodes as a reference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's also that same thing where it's like,
Speaker 5: it's great and it's the one thing I've forgotten about film,
Speaker 5: and it's really like, I think I'm gonna go book
Speaker 5: a movie night a day night with my partner because
Speaker 5: when you get it's the one time where you can
Speaker 5: generally escape and people always want to escape, but also
Speaker 5: be able to get in touch with feelings that you
Speaker 5: don't get to and crying is one It's like you
Speaker 5: said it before, crying in cinema is great and that's
Speaker 5: what it's there for sometimes, and as a parent, you know,
Speaker 5: you can cry at the end of the day after
Speaker 5: hard day when you're both absolutely knacked and you miss
Speaker 5: each other and you know and you just want do
Speaker 5: you want to have that moment when you were twenties
Speaker 5: and you were going to the cinema. But yeah, it's like,
Speaker 5: I think it's just a reminder because that yeah et
Speaker 5: was great and I cried, but now I'm kind of
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Speaker 1: Cry more, cry more. Yeah. Well, Mask is one that
Speaker 1: I remember at around the same time. Eric Daltz Shir
Speaker 1: plays his mum and you know the basic story, dude,
Speaker 1: so he's got a certain disfigurement and and it's just
Speaker 1: kid having a No, don't get the two films confused, alright,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why I thought he was so sad. Yeah, no,
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