Meetings of the third type

Rencontres of the third type ( Closed Encounters off the Third Kind in the original version) is a American Film of Science-fiction , carried out by Steven Spielberg, left on the screens in 1977.

Synopsis

Claude Lacombe (inspired of the ufologist Jacques Valley) is a French specialist working on the phenomena UFO S, called with the New Mexico to inquire into the discovery of planes of war disappeared on mission in 1940, found in perfect state in the desert of Sonora. Other strange facts occur on the surface of planet, Dr. Lacombe endeavors to bind all these events which would attest existence of a life Extraterrestre trying to come into contact with the men. At the same time, in a small village of the Indiana, Roy Neary, a repairer of cable sees in front of him a UFO; while a few kilometres from there, a child is removed by a Flying saucer under the eyes of his mother, Jillian. Whereas the authorities try to choke the business, Jillian and Roy have intuitions, increasingly strong and precise, in connection with the existence of an enigmatic place where is supposed to be held the meeting…

Origin of the title and precise details

The title Rencontres of the third type is resulting from the Classification of Hynek used in Ufologie to classify the brought closer meetings (RR). The stage RR3 (Meeting Brought closer to the 3rd Type) corresponds to the fact of seeing an UFO and its occupants or only the occupants of the UFO.

The film shows brought closer meetings going until type 5 (RR5) since there will be finally communication with the occupants of an immense UFO. Nevertheless, type RR5 is posterior with initial classification such as it was worked out by Josef Allen Hynek.

Data sheet

  • Realization: Steven Spielberg

  • Scenario: Steven Spielberg
  • Production: Julia Philips and Michael Phillips
  • Music: John Williams
  • Assembly: Michael Kahn
  • Decorations: Phil Abramson
  • Directing of the visual effects: Douglas Trumbull
  • Cascades and assistant special effects: Pierre Parks
  • technical Consultant: J. Allen Hynek
  • Comings out date:
    • the USA: November 16th, 1977 (first in New York on November 15th)
    • France: February 24th, 1978
    • the USA: August 1st, 1980 (special edition)
    • France: September 12th left (begun again in rooms)
  • Lasted: 131 minutes

Distribution

Places of turning

Turning started in the studios of Burbank. Part of the action takes place on the site of the mountain Devil' S Tower, in the Wyoming. An immense hangar with airships of the second world war with Mobile, Alabama, was also used as plate.

Anecdotes

  • the title of work of film was Watch the Skies , the last words of the film the Thing of another world (1951). One also hears this sentence during film, in the cartoon which awakes Roy.
  • For the scene where Cary Guffey, the young actor who incarnates Barry, was to play the astonishment vis-a-vis the extraterrestrial ones, the realizer Steven Spielberg required of two members of the team of turning to hide in boxes behind the camera, one disguised as a clown and the other in gorilla. During the turning of the scene, the first appeared by surprised in front of somewhat surprised Cary, then the second. Spielberg then required of the gorilla to withdraw its mask, thus making smile Cary.
  • This film holds the record of the greatest number of directors of the photography: 11, by including the special edition.
  • Paul Schrader wrote the original screenplay. But when Spielberg found that a good part of script did not agree to him absolutely, Schrader regarded script as the “thing” of Spielberg, and has blow, refused to be credited. As for Spielberg, it récrivit completely the film as it wished to see it.
  • Steven Spielberg had approached Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman and also Lino Ventura, which refused, for the role of Roy Neary.
  • the music of John Williams was already made up before the assembly of film. Spielberg had assembled film according to the music, contrary to what is usually done. Spielberg and Williams estimated that gave to film a specific lyric feeling to its universe.
  • In film, the human ones communicate with the extraterrestrial ones by the music and an adapted technology. However the trades of the parents of Steven Spielberg were respectively musician and data processing specialist. A bringing together that Spielberg had not made until the journalist James Lipton points out it in an interview for famous the Actors Studio in 1994.
  • Steven Spielberg was impatient to show with the other giant playing in film, the French actor-realizer François Truffaut the whole of the immense studio allocated with film, Mobile, in Alabama, in the hope to impress it. However, this one did not seem not impressed; later, the team realized that Truffaut had made its films only in small studios, almost intimate, and it could not simply seize the vastness of the hangar. But when it entered the room where Jillian observes information, Truffaut, right in the middle of the room, raised the arms in the air and exclaimed: “ Now, this has studio! ” (“That, is a studio! ”) and it is what will have convinced Truffaut to turn with its admiror.
  • the final scene of film gives to see a gigantic vessel extraterrestrial mother. A model of this one is exposed to the National Air and Space Museum (cf illustration).

The musical code

The musical code in the middle of film was parodied in many films and televised series. Let us quote for example:

The partition of the musical code is: Ground (4) It (4) F (4) F (3) C (4). The figures between brackets indicate the number of the octave.

External bonds

  • Card IMDB

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