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Showing posts with label E.T.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E.T.. Show all posts
11/29/2008
11/16/2007
Jerry Seinfeld is a genius!
The other day, while wandering about on YouTube, I came across this commercial featuring one of my favourite comedians ever: Jerry Seinfeld.
Jerry Seinfeld cleverly made two references to a film he's playing in, namely Bee Movie. What was that? I had to check it out, and I found the trailers (see below). Seinfeld voices the bee character of Barry B(ee). Benson. The film also stars Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick and John Goodman (whom we hadn't seen in a while, had we?), among many others.
The first two trailers are about the "creation" of the movie:
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
Waw! Steven Spielberg himself promoting a movie in an ad? (Of course, he owns the production company, Dreamworks.)
Trailer 3 (telling a bit more about the plot)
Trailer 4
Sounds promising.
Jerry Seinfeld cleverly made two references to a film he's playing in, namely Bee Movie. What was that? I had to check it out, and I found the trailers (see below). Seinfeld voices the bee character of Barry B(ee). Benson. The film also stars Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick and John Goodman (whom we hadn't seen in a while, had we?), among many others.
The first two trailers are about the "creation" of the movie:
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
Waw! Steven Spielberg himself promoting a movie in an ad? (Of course, he owns the production company, Dreamworks.)
E.T. was made of brown Play-Doh and chicken wire.--> A myth is destroyed!
Trailer 3 (telling a bit more about the plot)
Trailer 4
Sounds promising.
11/12/2007
E.T. meets a friend
Some idiot (read: genius) managed to make a horror trailer out of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:
Funny, wasn't it?
Let me seize this opportunity to show you one of the most brilliant crossovers in the history of cinema: E.T. meets someone he thinks to be an old friend of his:
Home! Home!
--> So now we know where Yoda's actually from: he's from the same planet as E.T. But the point is that we don't know its name either… Too bad. By the way, there are lot of hidden gems (the so-called "Easter eggs") about Star Wars in this movie, for example a TIE-Fighter on Elliott's bookshelf.
Please note that we can actually spot Steven Spielberg dressed up as an old lady when E.T.'s looking through the ghost shroud, just on the left after "Yoda" appears. (This is, as far as I know, his only cameo in one of his films.)
Please also note that the talented John Williams, who brilliantly composed the score of both E.T. (1982) and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980; film where Yoda appears for the first time in the movie history), subtlely uses Yoda's theme when we see him. I don't think there are many composers who can be proud to have achieved such a thing in their career. Not even Mozart. (Even though movies didn't exist back then.)
Funny, wasn't it?
Let me seize this opportunity to show you one of the most brilliant crossovers in the history of cinema: E.T. meets someone he thinks to be an old friend of his:
Home! Home!
--> So now we know where Yoda's actually from: he's from the same planet as E.T. But the point is that we don't know its name either… Too bad. By the way, there are lot of hidden gems (the so-called "Easter eggs") about Star Wars in this movie, for example a TIE-Fighter on Elliott's bookshelf.
Please note that we can actually spot Steven Spielberg dressed up as an old lady when E.T.'s looking through the ghost shroud, just on the left after "Yoda" appears. (This is, as far as I know, his only cameo in one of his films.)
Please also note that the talented John Williams, who brilliantly composed the score of both E.T. (1982) and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980; film where Yoda appears for the first time in the movie history), subtlely uses Yoda's theme when we see him. I don't think there are many composers who can be proud to have achieved such a thing in their career. Not even Mozart. (Even though movies didn't exist back then.)
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