Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1978)
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And this film has some of John William's best work, IMO. Especially considering he actually gets to write some of the dialogue in this one.
Agree. To come up with one of the most iconic movie music pieces from just 5 simple notes. A composing genius.
That comment made me think of this little gem.
Thank you! I haven't seen that since 1980!
Even though he was 19 at the time, Spielberg took his parent's divorce very hard. His relationship with his father was strained for several years.
If you guys start making mashed potato structures i'm going to get worried lol
Before I had a VCR I audio recorded this classic and after I got a video tape machine it was one of the first things I captured from HBO (when the premium movie channel still presented short subjects between features).
For a long time (despite what the credits clearly listed) I was adamant that was actually Hans Conreid who performed the narration. But I finally accepted the reality it was another person, one Corey Burton who's still working nearly 40 years later. According to Wiki, he voices Ludwig von Drake for the new "Duck Tales" series.
When fans think of early parody fan films, more tend to say "Hardware Wars" is their favorite, but I've always been partial to "Closet Cases..." It just seems a somewhat more "polished" production. My favorite sequence, bar none, is the singing mailboxes! It honestly looks like something Jim Henson and his troupe would have staged. Nearly 40 years later and I still grin like an idiot at that scene!
Corey Burton's a pretty good impressionist, so he does a lot of soundalike roles, e.g. Count Dooku in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He also did Superman: The Animated Series's Brainiac, which was sort of an impression of Vic Perrin as the Control Voice (narrator) on The Outer Limits.
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