![]() ![]() ![]() Plot Overview SPOILER WARNING: The following contains important plot details of the entire film. He decided it was a mistake and removed it in the later edition.) (Spielberg added this scene as a concession to be allowed to make the Special Edition. The interior of the mothership is deleted from the Collector's Edition. The Special Edition features several new character development scenes, the discovery of a lost ship, the Cotopaxi, in the Gobi Desert, and a view of the inside of the mothership. The movie has been revised numerous times, notably for a 132-minute "special edition" reissue in 1980 and again for a 137-minute "collector's edition" in 1988. It popularised a number of motifs, most of which were drawn from earlier (and purportedly genuine) UFO encounters: alien abduction, small and thin aliens ("greys"), and UFOs covered in lights rather than the disc shapes more popular in the 1950s and 1960s, and so on. ![]() The movie has visual effects by Douglas Trumbull and a score composed by John Williams.Ĭlose Encounters was perhaps the most important science fiction movie up to that point to introduce benign or even kind aliens, a sharp departure from the 'evil monster' style of most earlier films. It stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, and Cary Guffey. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science-fiction film about UFOs, written and directed by Steven Spielberg. ![]()
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