"I'll be right here."
That's what E.T. says to Elliot pointing his glowing phalange at Elliot before he leaves.
We've been watching this classic over and over lately. It's on right now -we are enchanted. From a perspective of a storyteller I can't help but feel like the best stories are already all told. So many great stories have already been told and retold it must be why all the editors and producers want your pitches to be something like "It's like Harry Potter but in the Friends era with a visit from The Muppets." instead of "It is a story of a quirky outcast boy in 1995 who is visited by a stuffed puppet."
The range of emotions I watch this movie bring out in my daughter and feel all over again myself make it such a masterpiece. Also I feel extremely old as I contemplate the fact that my daughter barely recognizes a telephone. I marvel that this idea was turned down by the first studio Spielberg presented it to, and that M&M's thought that E.T. was disgusting and would scare little kids. E.T. blinks his gigantic Einstein eyes and we get weepy.
Speaking of product placement, I put my daughter on a path of old classics recently on purpose to help disperse this desire to have everything Lightning McQueen or Toy Story. Every single place we go to I have not been able to escape, "Look Lighting! Buy it! Look Buzz! I want it!"
Mater and company lurk in the most unexpected places, tissue boxes, window treatments, bandaids, the Mexican restaurant, bus stops....
The trouble is...talking about E.T. at night led her on a quest for an E.T. book. And it hasn't been easy to find. Still waiting to find one hiding in all these boxes from my past that have followed us to the desert.
That's what E.T. says to Elliot pointing his glowing phalange at Elliot before he leaves.
The range of emotions I watch this movie bring out in my daughter and feel all over again myself make it such a masterpiece. Also I feel extremely old as I contemplate the fact that my daughter barely recognizes a telephone. I marvel that this idea was turned down by the first studio Spielberg presented it to, and that M&M's thought that E.T. was disgusting and would scare little kids. E.T. blinks his gigantic Einstein eyes and we get weepy.
Mater and company lurk in the most unexpected places, tissue boxes, window treatments, bandaids, the Mexican restaurant, bus stops....
The trouble is...talking about E.T. at night led her on a quest for an E.T. book. And it hasn't been easy to find. Still waiting to find one hiding in all these boxes from my past that have followed us to the desert.
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Ooo, speaking of storytelling, I'm reading a book right now that I think you'd like. It's called "Don't Breathe a Word". I'm not finished with it, but one of the main characters is a storyteller named Lisa and she totally reminds me of you when you were younger. At least how I remember you with the many stories you'd tell.
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