Close Encounters of the Third Kind's Actionless Climax | The Director Project
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For my contribution to The Director Project's spotlight on Steven Spielberg, I take a close look at the climactic set-piece of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and how Spielberg crafts one of the most exciting endings to any movie without actually having any traditional action.
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_Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_ is another example of "action without violence". A sci-fi caper that takes a cue from _Close Encounters_ in it's intensely action-packed yet bloodless race to communicate with an unknowable alien entity.
Great comparison. Star Trek IV is so wonderful.
Close Encounters is one of the most overlooked Spielberg films OF ALL TIME... OF ALL TIME!
It is? It was a huge hit and one of his most well known blockbusters.
Surely this film is more "looked" than say, 1941? Always? Empire of the Sun?
@@nope5657 Yeah... but unlike those, this one's actually good.
@@thefilmseeker “empire of the sun” is good. And I’ll defend 1941 too
@@Tolstoy111 Then you'll be defending a lost cause...
@@thefilmseeker It's not great or anything but in the uncut version you can see what Spielberg was trying for...this sort of constantly moving burlesque.
You can thank John Williams for one of the reasons this sequence works. He is the man.
Indeed. This is some of his finest work.
This climax is so remarkable and imaginative. Thanks for breaking down why it works for us! Great vid!
And thank you for explaining how Spielberg brought dinosaurs back to life.
Saw this film at the cinema in 1978 nobody had ever seen anything like it just brilliant and blew me away as a 13 year old boy ! Still does now as a 57 year old grandad
at that time, some producers of the film said "Close Encounters of the Third Kind'" was an extremely bizarre title for a movie, they feared it would have epic fail just for that
what the hell is "Close Encounters of the Third Kind'" it will confuse the public even more, they argued
Great video. Even though it made a bunch of money, I feel people don’t talk about it enough. It’s one of those films that feel very personal. It’s the same thing with E.T. It’s always fascinated me how much hate he got from the art house community for making that movie. Like it was just worthless, money grabbing garbage. That’s absolutely insane to me, because to this day, E.T. Is one of the only films that’s ever made me cry.
There’s this great video of John Cassavetes talking to an interviewer who clearly believed E.T. to be an impersonal, dumb studio movie, and lauded a “serious” film like A Woman Under The Influence. John, being the unpretentious dude he is, supported Spielberg, and understood that regardless of how much money it made, it’s still a film that has something to say.
That's a great story. The presence of Truffaut in Close Encounters is also an interesting example of a director more respected in academic/sophisticated circles championing Spielberg and his work. Truffaut was also allegedly a great supporter of E.T.
John Williams composed this and starwars in 77 he must be in God mode
That's something wild about watching the Close Encounters climax. As beautiful as the music is, it's arguably only Williams' second best score for the year
@@EyebrowCinema he did the similar thing in 93 Schindler's list & JP
My music teacher taught me piano/keyboard WITH THIS SCENE when I was an early teen, took me a year to perfect it, It's the piano equivalent of dueling banjos or a power metal dual guitar song from LoveBites or Iron Maiden. I can still play the whole thing perfectly now, which is NOT as easy as you may think. LOVE this movie and still watch the dvd often. And now I have to go watch it again. Lmao. Nice analysis.
Close Encounters is one of the greatest scifi movies, but it's difficult for me to watch. All the stuff with the family and the wife and kids leaving is tough to handle. Also, I'd be curious to see you do a video on The Sugarland Express and/or Duel. I think TSE is one of his most underrated films and has my favorite John Williams score, and Duel is actually my favorite movie of all time and doesn't get nearly as much love as it should.
I’m holding back from any direct references to modern events, but I’ll just say that this is the kind of content we need right now for this month of November
Hope that things can get better and we might avoid violence? Yeah, I suppose that's more timely than I considered.
Eyebrow Cinema lol, I was focusing more on humanity’s capacity to do the right thing even after dark times, but absolutely that as well
Also true.
Great job man, I need to revisit this one.
Ironically, I need to revisit Saving Private Ryan.
Wow, wasn’t expecting a new video so soon, but great video once again.
It will be a longer break before the next one. I'm very tired haha.
I am very excited to watch this. Thank you for all the great videos!
Thanks for always supporting them, Mouse!
Great video. I'm really looking forward to this new series!
Thank you! I am too!
Fantastic video essay.
First encounters walked so that Arrivals could run
great video.
A comment to help with the algorithm.
Have another
May it bless us in its infinite wisdom.
...with sugar and cream.
My favourite alien movie.
Honestly idk why but I was scared of this movie growing up as a kid but I loved other scary Alien movies I it was mostly because in my head I always expected something more
Also Star Trek TMP.
Abduction isn't violence?
Hope and wonder. Spielberg in a nutshell.
The bizarre domestic stuff and the fact that the father abandons his family at the end while joyous music plays give a weird connotation.
Why? His family sucked.
Not really.
Didn't Spielberg say that in recent years he reconsidered and the older version of himself wouldn't have ended the film that way?