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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD
KIND is Steven Spielberg's
extraordinary film about a man
named Roy Neary (Richard
Dreyfuss) who becomes obsessed
with meeting extraterrestrials
after encountering a UFO on an
abandoned road one night.
Against the wishes of his wife
(Teri Garr) and children, Neary,
along with another witness to
the sighting (Melinda Dillon),
travels to a mysterious mountain
where the government has built a
landing strip hoping to attract
the aliens. Director François
Truffaut costars as Claude
Lacombe, one of the organizers
of the project. Spielberg hoped
to follow up the huge success of
JAWS with a low-budget film that
would be an easy shoot, but,
thanks in part to the
complicated special effects,
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS quickly
snowballed into being an
expensive endeavor but a
commercial and artistic success.
No one who has seen the film has
ever looked at a plate of mashed
potatotes the same way again.
- Theatrical release: November
16, 1977. The film was shot in
India, Alabama, and Devil's
Tower National Monument in
Wyoming. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE
THIRD KIND is number 64 on the
American Film Institute's list
of Americas 100 Greatest Movies.
The small, lithe aliens were
played by young girls who Steven
Spielberg believed were more
graceful than boys. A close
encounter of the first kind is
when a UFO is sighted. Close
encounters of the second kind
involve the discovery of
physical evidence, and close
encounters of the third kind are
contact with extraterrestrials.
Although actor Richard Dreyfuss
won the Oscar for Best Actor
that year, he got it for THE
GOODBYE GIRL, not for CLOSE
ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
The laserdisc features
interviews with Spielberg,
composer John Williams, and
special effects man Douglas
Trumbull, as well as previously
edited material. In 1980, Steven
Spielberg issued a reedited
version of the film entitled THE
SPECIAL EDITION. He shortened
some scenes and added a sequence
at the end showing the interior
of the mother ship. Estimated
budget: $20 million. When CLOSE
ENCOUNTERS was released in 1977,
it quickly became Columbia
Pictures' most profitable film,
eventually taking in $166
million at the domestic box
office and $338 million
worldwide. Because Spielberg
really wanted the story to
surprise spectators, he kept a
closed set during production and
requested that the actors stay
mum about the film's content.
One working title of the film
was WATCH THE SKIES.
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD
KIND is director Steven
Spielberg’s mesmerizing movie
about earth’s encounter with
spaceships and alien beings as
experienced by one ordinary man.
Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary, a
man who, after encountering an
unexplainable phenomenon one
night, becomes obsessed with
discovering more, to the dismay
of his wife and family.
Legendary French filmmaker François
Truffaut plays the head of a
government agency hoping to
attract the aliens to an
isolated mountaintop in this
unforgettable sci-fi thriller.
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