Close Encounters of the Third Kind Production process

2021-10-22 14:30
The film was filmed on May 16, 1976. The filming locations include Warner Bros. Studios 15 and 16, Devil’s Tower National Monument, an abandoned World War II hangar, and a railway warehouse. The hangar occupies an area. The area is 6 times that of the world's largest studio. During filming in Alabama, the film crew was not only tortured by hurricane weather, but the studio was also destroyed by lightning.
The visual effects of the film cost 3.3 million U.S. dollars. Douglas Trumb, the visual effects director, tried to explore motion control photography in the film. Since the film is an anamorphic wide-screen film, in order to better adapt to 35mm film, filming The group chose to use 70mm film to shoot visual effects. When shooting UFO shots, the crew tried to use CGI technology, but Spielberg found that this new technology from the 1970s was too expensive, so it was not adopted.
The film was originally scheduled to be released in early 1977, but it was postponed to November due to filming. In post-production, Spielberg edited the film based on the soundtrack first completed by John Williams.
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  • Lelah 2022-04-20 09:01:18

    After all, it was a film from 30 years ago. It was a film in the era of madness for alien creatures. The first scene of the police car chasing the UFO already made me laugh, and the last scene of the UFO group lined up in the shape of the Big Dipper made me even more. I thought of Ah Jian, but except for a few scenes that seem to be more shocking now, other parts are still very good, especially the special effects that are not made by pure computer look especially realistic, and the picture of UFO passing through the clouds is very exciting.

  • Ahmad 2022-04-21 09:01:27

    9.5/10. ①The male protagonist and the female protagonist (one) Gillian searched for aliens together: the male protagonist explored for knowledge (even because his wife ran away with the children), Gillian was taken by aliens in order to protect and retrieve walking child. ②The special effects/modeling, (lighting) color, and light and shadow (from the flying saucer) of several flying saucer scenes are very original and excellent. Personally, I especially like the flying saucer to capture Gillian's son and finally the flying saucer to come to the scene. The earth (the two settings of music communication and sign language communication are really good) these two paragraphs. ③As a popular melodrama, most of the time the narrative rhythm is too loose and procrastinating.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind quotes

  • Brad Neary: I don't understand these fractions.

    Roy Neary: What's one third of sixty?

    Brad Neary: [bewildered] That's a fraction, I don't understand them.

    Roy Neary: [using a model train as an object lesson] Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer...

    [CRASH]

  • Claude Lacombe: Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique.

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