Dive into a masterpiece of science fiction cinema with this superb poster for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the cult film by Steven Spielberg!
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Description of this Close Encounters of the Third Kind Poster
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an ordinary factory worker from Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO.
Close Encounters was a project Spielberg had long cherished. In late 1973, he struck a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction film. Although Spielberg was the only one credited for the screenplay, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the script to varying degrees. The title is derived from ufologist J. Allen Hynek’s classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the third type refers to human sightings of extraterrestrials or “animate beings.” Douglas Trumbull supervised the visual effects, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens.
Made on a production budget of $19.4 million, Close Encounters was released in a limited number of cities on November 16 and 23, 1977, before going into wide release the following month. The film was a critical and financial success, grossing over $300 million worldwide. The film received numerous awards and nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, the 32nd British Academy Film Awards, the 35th Golden Globe Awards, and the 5th Saturn Awards, and was widely praised by the American Film Institute.
In December 2007, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A special edition of the film, including both shortened and newly added scenes, was released theatrically in 1980. Spielberg agreed to make this special edition to add scenes they had been unable to include in the original version, as the studio demanded a controversial scene depicting the interior of the alien mothership. Spielberg’s dissatisfaction with the altered final scene led to a third version of the film, called the Director’s Cut, which was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1998. (and later on DVD and Blu-ray). The Director’s Cut is the longer version of the film, combining Spielberg’s favorite elements from the previous two editions but removing the scenes inside the alien mothership. The film was later remastered in 4K and re-released theatrically on September 1, 2017, for its 40th anniversary.
In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe, his American interpreter, cartographer David Laughlin, and other researchers discover a flight of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing shortly after World War II. The planes are in perfect condition, but without occupants. An elderly witness living nearby claims that “the sun came out at night and sang to it.” The researchers are equally baffled to find the SS Cotopaxi in the middle of the Gobi Desert, untouched and completely empty. Near Indianapolis, air traffic controllers observe two airliners narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision with an unidentified flying object (UFO).
At a country home, three-year-old Barry Guiler wakes up to discover his toys are running on their own. He begins to follow something outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him. Large-scale power outages begin to occur in the area, forcing electrician Roy Neary to investigate. While getting his bearings, Roy encounters a UFO that, while hovering over his truck, lightly burns the side of his face with its lights. The UFO flies off into the sky with three others, while Roy and three police cars give chase. The spaceships soar into the night sky, but the metaphysical experience leaves Roy mesmerized. He becomes fascinated by UFOs, much to the dismay of his wife, Ronnie, and begins to obsess over subliminal images of a mountain-like shape, of which he often makes models. Meanwhile, Jillian also becomes obsessed, drawing the unique image of the mountain. Soon after, she is terrorized in her home by a UFO that descends from the clouds. She fights off violent attempts by the UFO and unseen beings to enter the house, but in the chaos, Barry is abducted. Lacombe and Laughlin, along with a group of United Nations experts, continue to investigate the increasing UFO activity and related strange occurrences. Witnesses in Dharamsala, in northern India, report that UFOs emit peculiar sounds: a five-tone musical phrase in a pentatonic scale. Scientists broadcast this phrase into space, but the response puzzles them: a seemingly meaningless series of numbers (104 44 30 40 36 10) repeated endlessly until Laughlin, who has a background in cartography, recognizes it as a set of geographic coordinates, pointing to Devils Tower, near Moorcroft, Wyoming. Lacombe and the U.S. military converge on Wyoming. The U.S. military evacuates the area by tricking the media into believing a train crash has released nerve gas, while preparing a secret landing zone for UFOs and their occupants.
Meanwhile, Roy becomes increasingly erratic and causes Ronnie to abandon him, taking their three children with her. When a news program about the train crash near Devils Tower airs on television, Roy and Jillian see the same program and recognize the same mountain they saw. Along with other travelers experiencing the same visions, they set out for Devils Tower, despite public warnings about nerve gas. While most of the travelers are apprehended by the military, Roy and Jillian persist and reach the site just as UFOs appear in the night sky. Government specialists at the site begin communicating with the UFOs, which gradually appear by the dozens, using light and sound on a large electrical panel. A massive mothership then lands at the site, releasing the missing World War II pilots and sailors from Cotopaxi, along with over a dozen other abductees, from long-lost adults to children (and even a few animals), all from different time periods and who, strangely, have not aged since their abduction. Barry also returns and is reunited with a relieved Jillian. The government officials decide to include Roy in a group of people they had selected as potential visitors to the mothership, hastily preparing him. When the aliens finally exit the mothership, they select Roy to accompany them on their journey. As Roy enters the mothership, one of the aliens pauses with the humans for a few moments. Lacombe uses Curwen hand signs that match the alien’s five-note tonal phrase. The alien responds with the same gestures, smiles, and returns to his ship, which rises into space.