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4 11 The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, June 4, 1482 Spielberg: Movies of Tear and love fe Continued From Page M-3 resent his version of Hitchcock's innocent bystanders They are ordinary people, as Dr Lacorolie says in Close Eneoun ters, under extraordinary circumstances people like the suburban families in "Close Encounters, ET and Poltergeist, who live in pleasant ranch houses filled with appliances and television sets and refrigerator stocked with beer and Cokes and potato salad "Theyre common, everyday types of people to whom nothing really happens untd I come along, says Spielberg In the movies Ive made, Ive tned very, very har to take the bystander, toughen him up thereby robbing him of his innocence ui order to combat the forces that are again1 1 him I love movies where there are opposing forces and theyre stronger than the hero and the hero must succeed either by finding a way aiound or straight through In the case of ET, Spielberg points out, the opposing force is not a targible enemy like the shark in Jaws but the intrusion of the grown up woild Whereas 10-year-old Elliott wants only to love and be loved by his extraterrestnal friend this grown-up world, represented by corps of doctors and technicians, wants to preserve as a specimen of alien life I always thought of the adult world as being symbolized by tall people who cast giant shadows, says Spielberg, people who dont think like kids, but think like professionals Thats dangerous they might understand biologically and scientifically, but theyd never ever under stand that he had a heart Similar Message A similar message, of course, has long been a favorite theme in childrens literature from Barnes Peter Pan to Antoine de Saint Exuperys The Little Prince and is filled with references to well known books and films During one scene, for instance, John Williamss score recalls the music used in The Wizard of Oz to accompany the Wicked Witch, Miss Gulch, and in the movies penultimate scene, Elliott and his friends soar into the sky on their bicycles, in much the same way that Peter Pan and Wendy flew off to Never Never Land the suburbs lus parents always lived in and he soon learned that he could express himself more easily with a movie camera than by talking in school or writing papers on having grown-up conversations with his parents Movies took the place of crayons and charcoal, he says, and I was able to represent my life at 24 frames a second At 12, he filmed a collision between his Lionel train sets At 13, he earned a Boy Scout merit badge by making a three-minute eight-millimeter film that featured one of his fnends robbing a stagecoach and counting the money And at 16, he made Firelight, a two-and-a-half-hour science fiction movie that anticipated Close Encounters Important Lessons And when the young Spielberg was not making movies, he was watching them or watching such television shows as The Honey mooners, Captain Midnight and Sky King Such Disney films as Bambi, Fantasia and Snow White imparted a moralistic sense of good and evil, as well as a well-developed sense of terror, and he says he also learned important lessons about characterization and story tellmg from Frank Capra movies like A Pocketful! of Miracles," Meet John Doe and Its a Wonderful Life He never believed in anything, Spielberg once said, until he discovered film, and it is only recently that exposure to fnends outside the business including his girllnend, Kathleen Carey, who works in music publishing has made him realize that all those hours spent in dark theaters as a kid left certain emotional and intellectual gaps Im still filling them he says now "But you just cant pick up 20 years of lost weekends Movies are my life, but I see now that for some people movies are only a twice a year expenence and that in the rest of their lives, there are great decisions to be made when to have children, where to send them to school, are they growing up and how to make enough money to provide for everyone Its sort of made me realize thdt there's more to life than making movies though its still easier to say than to demonstrate (Copyright) Certainly Spielberg and tin writer of the dm, Melissa Wathison, were well aw'-re of the genre they were workuig in before starting, they screened surh movies as Night of the Hunter, Bambi, The Blue Bird and Our Mothers House but the film also grew out of preoccupations that have animated Spielberg work from the beginning Children Featured Most of his movies, after all, have featuied children important or emblematic roles Sugarland, Close En-eounteis and Poltergeist, for instance, all involve the attempt of a mother to regain custody of her child And in both Cio'e Fin coulters and "ET," it is a chill and those adults wh maintain a child, ike innocence and openness to the jrOSMbihty of miracles who is granted communion with these visitors from outer spaic and a vis.on of a more lovely world Ive always wanted to do something about kids because Im still a kid, says Spic lb rg who at 34 still radiates a boyish enthusiasm and ingenuous charm I still waiting to get out of rny Peter Pan shoes and into my loafers I think its easier for me to have a complete conversation from Pae Man to exobiology with an 11 year-old than it is to sit down with an adult and discuss Nietzsche and the Falklands Why? I guess because Im probably socially irresponsible and way down deep I dont want to look the world in the eye Actually, I dont mind looking the world in the eye, as long as theres a movie camera between us That, of course, is exactly what Spielberg has been doing sin he made his first home movie at the age of 12 The son of a computer specialist and a concert piaiyst mother who were divorced when he was a teen ager, Spielberg says he was an awkward child the weird, skmny kid with the acne who didnt have a lot of friend-, His parents moved several times from Ohio to New Jersey to Arizona to California, uprooting Steven and his three younger sisters, and leaving him with a lasting sense of dislocation Movies, the young boy discovered, opened up a new world of possibilities an exciting world wonderfully different from w'S Ail STAR-KEY A REAL ROBOT WILL BE AT SANOY FRI. 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