John Williams and Steven Spielberg E.T. 1982

    by Capucine · old hollywood: John Williams

    John Williams and Steven Spielberg listening to the E.T. theme from 1982 being performed.

    Transcript (en)

    If it would be convenient to go into the call... Yeah. I like that. I like that. It seems like a very natural transition into the loneliness and out of the tenderness. Let's see if we can do it. Okay. The thing is, where do we shift from the call to the theme? Is it on his smile? Is it when he touches his face? That's a wonderful question. And your choices are as many frames long as the sequence. I wouldn't let anybody hurt you. We could go all together, E.T. That's certainly the call, isn't it? That's the call. That's the call. And this is the loneliness. This is Elliot's love. This is his heart breaking. Does he look up again? He looks up a second time. But the call has to be there, doesn't he? Oh, yeah, I think you're right. Let's get that. Absolutely. I always get that confused. Yeah, sometime. Sometimes. Does it ever go up once in a movie yet? It hasn't gone up yet, has it? It's the end. I'll save it for the last reel. Okay. Up or down? Up. Maybe once down. It could go down once and then go up.