319 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
319 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The working title was ``Watch the Skies'', the closing words from
"The Thing From Another World (1951)" (qv). These words also can be heard
in the cartoon that wakes Neary.
- 'Jerry Garcia' (qv) can be spotted in the crowd in India.
- Barry is shown to be surprised by the extraterrestrials. Director
'Steven Spielberg' (qv) dressed up in a gorilla suit and was off camera while
'Cary Guffey' (qv)'s reaction was filmed.
- In the original version, there is a long scene of Roy Neary tears up his and
a neighbor's back yard for materials with which to build a model of Devil's
Tower. This scene is not in ``The Special Edition'' but was replaced by a
scene (the night before) in which his wife discovers him crying, fully
clothed, under a running hot shower. A family fight ensues, but this entire
scene was not seen in the original version. Also, additional footage was
shot for ``The Special Edition'' that shows Neary inside the alien
mothership at the end of the movie.
- SFX man 'Douglas Trumbull' (qv) created the cloud effects by injecting white
paint into tanks of salt and fresh water.
- It is possible to see an upside down R2-D2 (from
"Star Wars (1977)" (qv), etc) in part of the large spacecraft that flys over
Devil's Mountain. The SFX people needed more detail, and so supposedly
there are many more such items, such as a shark from "Jaws (1975)" (qv)
(also directed by Spielberg), etc. R2-D2 is visible as Jillian first sees
the mothership up close from her hiding place in the rocks.
- The watch that Neary wears only shows the time when he presses a button
on it. During filming the watch remains blank. This is to avoid continuity
errors.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [stars]
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [father]: Jillian is a single mother; Roy leaves
his family to follow his intuition.
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