Post by Prime etc. on Aug 16, 2020 1:00:03 GMT
Global media was big on hyperbole.
Around that time they said JK Rowling was the next Shakespeare.
Digression trivia alert
But it was an Indian filmmaker, Satyagit Ray, who had circulated an ET-like story in Hollywood before Spielberg. I would bet the alien botanist stuff in ET came from Ray.
"In a series of fantastically quick, short steps over the lotus leaves, the Alien reaches the shore of the pond. He looks down at the grass, examines the blade and is off hopping into the bamboo grove. There the Alien sees a small plant. His eyes light up with a yellow light. He passes his hand over the plant, and flowers come out. A thin, soft high-pitched laugh shows the Alien is pleased.
When the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was produced in 1982, Ray noted similarities in the movie to his own earlier script. Ray discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature, with further details revealed by his biographer Andrew Robinson (in The Inner Eye, 1989). Ray claimed that Steven Spielberg's film "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." When the issue was raised by the press, Spielberg denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."[3] Star Weekend Magazine disputes Spielberg's claim, pointing out that he had graduated from high school in 1965 and began his career as a director in Hollywood in 1969.[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alien_(unproduced_film)
Around that time they said JK Rowling was the next Shakespeare.
Digression trivia alert
But it was an Indian filmmaker, Satyagit Ray, who had circulated an ET-like story in Hollywood before Spielberg. I would bet the alien botanist stuff in ET came from Ray.
"In a series of fantastically quick, short steps over the lotus leaves, the Alien reaches the shore of the pond. He looks down at the grass, examines the blade and is off hopping into the bamboo grove. There the Alien sees a small plant. His eyes light up with a yellow light. He passes his hand over the plant, and flowers come out. A thin, soft high-pitched laugh shows the Alien is pleased.
When the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was produced in 1982, Ray noted similarities in the movie to his own earlier script. Ray discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature, with further details revealed by his biographer Andrew Robinson (in The Inner Eye, 1989). Ray claimed that Steven Spielberg's film "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." When the issue was raised by the press, Spielberg denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."[3] Star Weekend Magazine disputes Spielberg's claim, pointing out that he had graduated from high school in 1965 and began his career as a director in Hollywood in 1969.[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alien_(unproduced_film)