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Mathison has named the eldest of her three central children Michael, the name Barrie gave to the youngest of his three central children, who are, like Mathison's, two boys and a girl. Later, it becomes clear that Melissa Mathison, who wrote the script of E.T., did not choose this segment of Barrie's play accidentally for E.T., too, comes back to life, just after Elliott has promised him that 'I'll believe in you all my life.' These two crucial scenes provide only the most apparent of the many links between Barrie's play and Spielberg's movie important parallels between the two romantic fantasies exist throughout. The reading has reached the scene in which Tinker Bell the fairy is dying, her light growing dim, and Peter makes his dramatic appeal to those who believe in fairies to save Tink by clapping their hands to attest to that belief. The two are shown together on Gertie's bed, the lighting is dim, and the story is a version of Sir James M.

We also pick up on ET as a film about communication, connecting this with non-normative modes of autistic communication.At almost exactly the mid-point of Steven Spielberg's enormously successful film E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Mary, the mother of Elliott, Michael, and Gertie, reads a bedtime story to her little daughter. We find particular interest in the film's navigation of tropes from horror films and family dramas, and we consider Elliot as a figure of loneliness. Sam also presented a wonderfully bizarre re-edit of a scene from ET at the Autism Through Cinema conference in January 2023, and we discuss her motivations behind these artistic choices.īut mostly, we're having a good old chat about a well-beloved film.

We're also incredibly delighted to welcome yet another wonderful special guest, the brilliant Sam Chown-Ahern! Sam is a filmmaker, artist, collaborator, and member of the Neurocultures Collective, who are currently working with Autism Through Cinema in the creation of an experimental feature film.

We're back among the aliens and the spaceships today as we tackle Steven Spielberg's tear-jerking classic.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial download the new version