Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. He also bears the title Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition (reissue from 1980 in which the mother ship can be seen from the inside) and the working titles The Close Encounter of the Third Kind and Watch the Skies.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was nominated for eight Academy Awards, won for cinematography and Frank e. Warner in addition got a Special Achievement Awardfor sound editing. In addition, the film won eleven other awards, including a Grammy Award for the film music of John Williams, a BAFTA Award for best art-direction andSaturn Awards for best screenplay, best director and best music.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 2007 was included in the National Film Registry.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Close Encounters of the Third Kind (abbreviated as CE3K) has three story lines that come together over time.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Analysis
 * 3.2 Development
 * 3.3 Production
 * 3.4 Music
 * 3.5 the original vs. the Special Edition vs. the Director's Cut
 * 3.6 reception
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is mechanic at an electricity company. He is married to Ronnie, a materialistic woman (played by Terry Garr). One night he goes out in his car to investigate a power outage. At a railroad crossing beats his engine off. At the same time you may experience strange light phenomena and objects begin to float in his car.

The days he is then slowly obsessed with images in his head from "Devil's tower", a table-shaped mountain in the State of Wyoming, although Neary still has no idea that that's what he sees. He sees the mountain also in his dreams and starts to build with him after all he gets home at your fingertips. His obsession puts a strain on his marriage and in the end the couple apart. Neary develops in the meantime an uncontrollable tendency to to go to the mountain.

Barry (Cary Guffey), the son of Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), is kidnapped by the aliens Ufos after seemingly have invaded her home. They, too, is then mentally bombarded by images of Devil's Tower, and at the same time attracted by.

Meanwhile, examines a group of scientists including Lacombe (François Truffaut) and Laughlin (Bob Balaban) UFO sightings from all over the world. As they discover a few long-lost aircraft, including a crew from World War II still alive (Flight 19) in a Mexican desert. In the Special Edition of CE3K is also a major oil tanker found in the middle of the Gobi desert. There are reports from space which seem to point to geographical coordinates (later revealed to be indeed the site of this Devil's Tower).

At a large number of people go there for unexplained reasons a melody of five nuts in their head: G, A, F, F minus 1 octave, C.[1]  Also the scientists discover this sequence of musical notes in the alien messages. To see his images on TV from all over the world in which inexplicable mass psychoses take place which are all related to the five-tone melody or with Devil's Tower.

Many people have gotten the visions (both the mountain and the melody) and go on path to Devil's Tower, but only the people from the three storylines to actually save it. Devil's Tower itself is meanwhile evacuated by the army that falsely spreading the message that there is a train with nerve gas is off track in the area. The flat top of the mountain is decorated as a landing site for a possible spaceship.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Neary and Dillon be filed along the final piece of the hike on the mountain. They see how the above activity of UFOs around them strong increases. Then a gigantic spaceship above the mountain that continues to hover just above landing site. The scientists are trying to communicate with the spaceship by the five-tone melody playback on an ARP 2500 synthesizer, via large speakers. This succeeds, and there begins a lively musical conversation. Then opens a hatch in the belly of the spacecraft. Inside activity visible and there are some people out. This prove (sometimes for years) long-lost people who are now reunited with friends and family.Below is the kidnapped son of Barry, Melinda.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Now, on to the extraterrestrials themselves out. It is clear that they have peaceful intentions. The communication is done via hand gestures. Roy Neary, who had watched all this from a distance, now runs forward and makes contact with extraterrestrials. If the extraterrestrials out again with their intention to spaceship, they take the decision to go with Neary. He runs the spaceship after which the hatch is closing. The space ship sets sail for the stars. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Analysis<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Close Encounters of the Third Kind came just after Star Wars (directed by George Lucas) out. Thereby was opened just before the path for this genre films. CE3K particularly made a few things:

===Development<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The idea for the film originated when Steven Spielberg in his youth with his father saw a meteorites rain .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-making_2-0" len="193" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  as a teenager, Spielberg made the movie Firelight. Many scenes from Firelight would later be reused by him inClose Encounters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fire_3-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  In 1970 wrote Spielberg a short story titled Experiences, on a light show that one evening by a group of teenagers is observed in the air.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-state_4-0" len="192" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  at the end of 1973, when production for The Sugarland Express was completed, Spielberg made a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction movie. 20th Century Fox had the idea already rejected.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-state_4-1" len="192" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  Julia and Michael Phil Lambert signed as producers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="186" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]
 * The quality was relatively high. Science fiction films were to have been almost exclusively to Star Wars B-movies. In particular, the special effects by Douglas Trumbull (including Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey) supported the look of the film.
 * The extraterrestrials are friendly. Until then aliens were portrayed as hostile and warlike monsters, but in this movie chose Spielberg consciously for fraternization. This is not initially clear. The events that take place when Neary's truck stops, or the scene in which Barry is abducted son (the entire kitchen by Melinda vibrates to its foundations and is imbued with bright red colors) gives the impression that the extraterrestrials not come with good intentions. Their intentions are not clear for the end.
 * Scientists have in the film the lead, not soldiers. This aspect made CE3K different than before and is also the hallmark of Spielberg, those themes as family and brotherhood often gives a place in his work.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Spielberg initially wanted to make a documentary or low budget film about people who believe in UFOs. He gave the project the working title Watch the Skies, named after a quote from The Thing from Another World. He suggested the idea to Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz. Katz was made the idea, however, one of the worst ideas they had ever heard.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-state_4-2" len="192" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  Spielberg hired therefore Paul Schrader to write a new scenario. The project was put on the back burner when Spielberg directed by first took Jaws .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When Jaws was a great success, Columbia's got Spielberg more freedom for making his science fiction film. Schrader had in the meantime completed the scenario, but Spielberg accepted it off.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dreyfuss_6-0" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  the scenario entitledKingdom Come. The protagonist was a 45-year-old luchtmachtcommandant who one day meets a UFO and then spent 15 years trying to seek contact with the aliens. John Hill was hired to rewrite the story.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dreyfuss_6-1" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  Spielberg Also was rejected by his scenario, there it too much a James Bondmovie would have become.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins suggested Spielberg for the plot to make it run to the kidnapping of a child. Spielberg himself wrote a screenplay around this idea. He was inspired by the song "When You Wish upon a Star" from the Disney film Pinocchio. For the completion of the scenario he was helped by Jerry Belson. This scenario also received the final title Close Encounters of the Third Kind.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-come_7-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  j. Allen Hynek, which with theUnited States Air Force had been working on Project Blue Book, was hired as a consultant. ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Devils Tower in Wyoming was one of the filming locations.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 16 May 1976 was started with test images. Spielberg wanted the movie prefer whole recording because of his negative experiences with recordings on location during the production of Jaws. Eventually he agreed to film on location anyway. The shooting took place in Burbank, Devils Tower, two abandoned hangars from the Second World War on the former Brookley Air Force Base, and the train depot in Bay Minette. The House from which Barry is abducted is in reality just outside the town of Fairhope, Alabama.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The recordings were hampered by multiple technical and budgetary problems. Spielberg found the recordings even worse than that of Jaws.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dreyfuss_6-2" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  Spielberg had hoped on a budget of $ 2.7 million, but the cost ran on to 19.4 million. The 1976 Atlantic hurricane season took care of tropical storms in Alabama, making the recordings were delayed. Finally, things are changing on the screenplay Spielberg remained, making recordings settled over had to.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Douglas Trumbull was responsible for the Visual effects in the film, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens. Trumbull's work helped the motion controltechniques such as who at the time were available for movies. The alien ship was designed by Ralph McQuarrie and built by Greg Jein. The appearance of the ship was based on an oil refinery that Spielberg had seen one night in India.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dreyfuss_6-3" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  the Visual effecen were shot on 70 mm film to reflect on the 35 mm film for the other recordings. There was also experimented with computer animation, but because this is a new technique in the 1970s was Spielberg was of the opinion that use of these would make the production too expensive. For the aliens was a combination of actors and puppets used.

<p lang="en" len="96" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Close Encounters was the first collaboration between Spielberg and editor Michael Kahn. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film music was composed by John Williams, who earlier had won an Academy Award for his work on Spielberg's Jaws. Like his music for Jaws is also his music for Close Encounters since then become part of thepop culture .

<p lang="en" len="36" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The album includes the following songs:

<p lang="en" len="63" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The "collector's Edition" of the film contains the following numbers:
 * 1) Main Title and Mountain Visions
 * 2) Nocturnal Pursuit
 * 3) The Abduction or Barry
 * 4) I can't Believe it's Real
 * 5) Climbing Devil's Tower
 * 6) The Arrival of Sky Harbor
 * 7) Night Siege
 * 8) The Conversation
 * 9) The Appearance of the Visitors
 * 10) Resolution and End Titles
 * 11) Theme from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" †

===The original vs. the Special Edition vs. the Director's Cut<span class="mw-editsection" len="399" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The cinema version was released under pressure from film studio Columbia Pictures rather than Spielberg wanted. After the release of the movie asked Spielberg if he was allowed to make a new version for which new scenes were included. Columbia Pictures agreed to, but on the condition that the audience at the end of the movie was allowed to see the inside of the mother ship. Spielberg agreed and so was Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition released in 1980.
 * 1) Opening: Let There Be Light
 * 2) Navy Planes
 * 3) Lost Squadron
 * 4) Roy's First Encounter
 * 5) Encounter at Crescendo Summit
 * 6) Chasing UFOs
 * 7) False Alarm
 * 8) Barry's kidnapping
 * 9) The Cover-up
 * 10) Stars and Trucks
 * 11) Forming The Mountain
 * 12) TV Reveals
 * 13) Roy and Gillian on the Road
 * 14) The Mountain
 * 15) "Who Are You People?"
 * 16) The Escape
 * 17) The Escape (alternate cue)
 * 18) Trucking
 * 19) Climbing The Mountain
 * 20) Outstretch Hands
 * 21) Lightshow
 * 22) Barnstorming
 * 23) The Mothership
 * 24) Wild Signals
 * 25) The Returnees
 * 26) The Visitors/"Bye"/End Titles: The Special Edition

<p lang="en" len="86" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Compared to the original from 1977, the following changes were made:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Spielberg has received over the years, however, regret of the show the inside of the mother ship and has therefore in 1998 released a Director's Cut, which the wake scene was. Also other scenes were accommodated.
 * Disturbing scenes (such as the long sequence of Neary who in his backyard trying Devil's Tower after it) have been removed
 * At the end the spectator is taken into account in the spaceship itself: a kind of alien Cathedral with columns of light and strange machines.
 * The strange, obsessive behavior of Neary is better indicated
 * More evidence of UFOs are shown in the film, as the tanker that suddenly appears in the middle of the Gobi desert
 * The by r. Cobb for the Special Edition designed special effects extend
 * The role of François Truffaut as the French scientist is more spacious worked out

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">All three versions were on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the movie in 2007 released on both DVD and Blu-ray. ===Reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="103" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film had during the summer of 1977 should come out, but the premiere was postponed to november.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Close Encounters at the edition was a huge commercial success in cinemas. The film brought in total $ 288 million on in 1977.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-box_8-0" len="190" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  this was the Columbia Pictures' most successful film so far.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pro_9-0" len="190" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  Jonathan Rosenbaumdescribed the film as "the best expression of Spielberg's benign, dreamy-eyed vision."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  A.D. Murphy of Variety gave the film a positive review, but found that the movie called the warmth and humanity of George Lucas's Star Wars was missing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  Pauline Kael called the film at its best a children's film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Fire_3-1" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Jean Renoir compared Spielberg with Jules Verne and Georges Méliès. Ray Bradbury called it the best science fiction film ever<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a good 95% of the reviewers rating.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  along with Star Wars and Superman 'Close Encounters led to a revival of the science fiction genre in the film industry. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="363" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="291" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1978 Close Encounters was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, 2 of which were won:

<p lang="en" len="33" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film won 9 other prizes:
 * Best choreography (Vilmos Zsigmond) – won
 * Special Achievement Award (Frank e. Warner) – won
 * Best Supporting Actress (Melinda Dillon)
 * Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
 * Best Director
 * Best visual effects
 * Best film editing
 * Best music
 * Best sound

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film received the following recognition by the American Film Institute:
 * 3 Saturn Awards
 * The BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design/Art Direction
 * The David di Donatello Award for best foreign film
 * The Golden Screen
 * The Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
 * The Golden Reel Award for best sound editing
 * The Special Citation of the Motion Picture Sound Editors


 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies -# 64
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Thrills -# 31
 * AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores -nominated
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Cheers -# 58
 * AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) -nominated
 * AFI's 10 Top 10 – nominated science fiction film