Steve Ahlman
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because when you saw E.T., E.T., like, it didn't matter how he looked.
was connecting with people.
The connection that you felt, you felt imperiled for him.
You wanted the humans to lose.
You wanted the children to win.
Now, putting kids in anything like that, I realize that that's a cheat code.
But, like, E.T.
's look didn't really matter.
In this look, in this film, we're talking about the look of the aliens because by the time the aliens hit the screen, we're like, where am I supposed to be?
Am I supposed to, like, what is this, like, what's supposed to happen here?
Like, how am I supposed to feel towards the aliens?
Even the...
the lady who is giving the news report at the end, as she becomes more and more moved, at a point that starts to get kind of corny.
It starts to get a little bit like... I just want to see the alien.
It starts to get like she is telling us exactly the emotion that we're supposed to feel.
She's guiding us through the scene.