ET came out when I was too young to care, but I quickly developed an irrational fear of his creepy Visage. By age eight I had never seen it until we saw it in class at the end of the school year, and my teacher was puzzled that I found the movie both scary and generally emotionally intense. For a long time I had seen nothing but Disney a…
ET came out when I was too young to care, but I quickly developed an irrational fear of his creepy Visage. By age eight I had never seen it until we saw it in class at the end of the school year, and my teacher was puzzled that I found the movie both scary and generally emotionally intense. For a long time I had seen nothing but Disney animated classics and then spent years learning to erect emotional detachment barriers to be able to consume normal movies. This post together with a brief mention of the film in Chuck Wendig's book Gentle Writing Advice has me quite interested to see it and also read that book... which will likely involve hunting down a second hand copy, which is always fun!
There should be lots of copies around because as I recall it was quite a big seller and they reissued it during a major ET film anniversary. It's pretty intense in parts, but in a children's lit way.
You're right, there are some copies around, and in fact a library near me has both ET and The Bear Went Over the Mountain still in their catalogue! Happy day.
ET came out when I was too young to care, but I quickly developed an irrational fear of his creepy Visage. By age eight I had never seen it until we saw it in class at the end of the school year, and my teacher was puzzled that I found the movie both scary and generally emotionally intense. For a long time I had seen nothing but Disney animated classics and then spent years learning to erect emotional detachment barriers to be able to consume normal movies. This post together with a brief mention of the film in Chuck Wendig's book Gentle Writing Advice has me quite interested to see it and also read that book... which will likely involve hunting down a second hand copy, which is always fun!
There should be lots of copies around because as I recall it was quite a big seller and they reissued it during a major ET film anniversary. It's pretty intense in parts, but in a children's lit way.
You're right, there are some copies around, and in fact a library near me has both ET and The Bear Went Over the Mountain still in their catalogue! Happy day.