E. T The Extra Terrestrial Analysis

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrials is a family and sci-fi movie which showed on screen at 1982 in United State. It was directed by Steven Spielberg. The story is about a little boy who called Elliot discovered an alien and how Elliot and other children help ET find his fellows. In the movie, there are some special parts which mainly is using the child 's point of view. It’s because these special parts could make the movie become successful. They are setting of characters, the camera angle and the dialogues.

From the setting of characters, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrials was set for having four main characters. Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore acted the roles of Elliot and Gertie. At this time, they are child actors. The central characters are ET, Elliot, Michael and Gertie. These four main characters are an alien, two children and a teenage, but not adults. In the movie, we can see that ET and children are spending time together for most of the time. That means the children have very important role in the story. These adults didn’t have too many parts in the story. These adults are supporting roles in the story. Therefore, we see that E.T. the Extra-Terrestrials is based on the child’s point of view, but not like

the Extra-Terrestrials is a movie that tells the story from the child’s point of view. From the setting of characters to the dialogues, we can find out that the story used children as a central easily. In most of the shots, they used point of view shots to guide the audience entering characters’ sight. We are invited into kid’s world. In dialogues, there are different tones of voice. It can represent children’s innocence, natural curiosity and sense of wonderment. It’s because using child’s point of view gained a huge success for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrials. That’s why E.T. the Extra-Terrestrials is totally different from other sci-fi movies and successful all-aged movies. It can recall our happy childhood memory and give us a special