He recognized that there’s messed up stuff all across the universe, not just at home on Earth. I like where the kid looks at the giant alien screaming at the two children aliens, and he goes, “Oh, that’s the dad.” He knew. We expect the aliens to be these spiritual, vast, intelligent beings who impart all this wisdom, and they could be just as screwed up as we are. It was almost like the anti- Close Encounters. But as an adult, I thought there was actually a really smart message in it. I remember as a kid hating it once we met the aliens because I thought they were really cheesy and stupid. I thought they were incredibly well done. But both of them I found really, really tense. Both of those scenes are 3:30, which usually means it’s a really overlong scene. It was really painful, actually, to watch. The longest ones are 3:30-the air traffic control scene and the fight scene in the house right at the beginning, where the kids are screaming, and she’s screaming at him, and he’s ignoring her. So I actually started timing the scenes in this movie as I was watching it. Anything that seems excruciatingly long is 3:30. Every scene that seems really long-every time-it comes out at 3 minutes. If a seems really long, I’ll go back and time it, just for my own benefit as a writer. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.Īndrea Kail on Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Listen to the complete interview with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer in Episode 498 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “I don’t want somebody going in and saying, ‘Here’s the official canon explanation of what was really going on.’ Because what I love more is what it created in my mind, this huge mystery I can work on.” “I absolutely love that they haven’t gone back and made a prequel or sequel to try to answer all the questions,” he says. “How do they not realize the mom is going to be scared when they abduct her little kid?”īut humor writer Tom Gerencer loves the film’s many mysteries, which have captivated him for more than 40 years. “If they’ve already abducted people from World War II, why do they need to communicate with music?” he says. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that Close Encounters works well visually and emotionally, but he finds the aliens’ behavior a bit too puzzling. I don’t write for TV or film-I write fiction-but just the beats, the timing. “This is, by far, Spielberg’s best film,” he says. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel says the film should be a model for screenwriters everywhere.
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