The Alien is trying to create a device which acts as a magnet to attract his cubes from all around the town. The cubes are all responsible for making his ship.
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Viewed 10k times. What caused all the metal to be attracted towards the water tower? Why in the world did the military leave the cubes lying around in the town even when they knew that the alien was there?
What was the Alien creating underground? Mom did the child rearing before a couple of tons of steel allowed her to be scooped up with a spatula. Charles is an aspiring filmmaker and he, Joe, and some other friends have been making a zombie film called The Case which Charles wants to enter into a film festival.
Remember, Cary likes explosives. The movie hammers this into your head so much during the first 20 minutes you expect the climax to involve a red and blue wire. Joe, you know, kinda, you know, likes her. Alice is an actress in the movie and you can tell that Joe, you know, likes her the way he coyly applies makeup to her while concealing a preteen boner.
So much innocence…about to be shattered. If you remember the first trailers, truck and train collide and PG heck breaks loose. How convenient! It turns out that Joe and the other Goonies actually know the guy in the truck.
How doubly convenient! Woodward Glynn Turman. Or else they will be killed along with their parents by nefarious government types from a secret wing of the government that deals specifically with hick towns and possible alien life forms.
Joe is only half as worried because one of his parents is already dead. They thank Mr. Woodward for the valuable exposition and for being the only black person in town.
The Government trucks descend and a lot of guys with worried looks look worriedly at the debris, as if something important, maybe even dangerous, escaped. Luckily, Joe and the Apple Dumpling gang make it out of there with their lives, if not their film equipment intact. I know that's kind of the lore around how this story was created.
ABRAMS: When I reached out to Steven to ask if he would be interested in doing a movie called Super 8 , about kids making Super 8 movies, and he said yes, I didn't really necessarily have in my head that there would be a monster. Although, I think I had the thought that there would be some intrigue that they would stumble upon in a kind of blowout way, where it's like there's something that they see that gets them sucked into something where they're in over their heads. As Steven and I started meeting and talking about what it could be, this idea came up.
I feel like, while I don't think I ever completely reconciled the two genres, in a way, I think doing something that was simply about the kids could have been maybe even a more satisfying story. There was something given that as we were discussing what this movie could be, the feeling of it being an Amblin movie, that it would feel like something from that library. In fact, this is the first Amblin movie to have the title card at the beginning of the movie, as opposed to the end.
I think that was part of the genre mashup thing, was that Amblin movies traditionally did that. It felt like something that would have allowed it to live on a shelf more comfortably with those other films. I know that the way you like to work, you'd like to keep the production a little bit loose, open to other creative ideas that might come about.
Not to say that there's not a script, but I know on the DVD commentary, you talk about enjoying working with Kyle Chandler, because he had come from Friday Night Lights , where they had a similar way of working. I was curious how working with kids changes that. Does it make it easier or does it make it harder to kind of be open to different ideas while you're working? So, I think you have to go into that as much as you can embracing the fact that you're not quite sure what you're going to get.
But the truth is that working with grown actors, and really accomplished and proven actors, usually they're so good because they're going to also surprise you, and do something that changes the tone, or the dynamic, or sometimes even the physicality of a scene, how something is choreographed.
But I feel like with kids, especially this group, they were so rambunctious, and so funny together, and would push each other's buttons, and be making to their laugh, and while they were actually also really thoughtful, and serious. It was a funny experience being with these kids, and seeing how their dynamic would change enormously when Elle Fanning was on set.
All of a sudden when she was there, they would just act very differently. That was always, every single time, that was hilarious. But you have to kind of be willing to go with the unexpected with kids, and especially given who they played and what they were doing that sometimes running the camera without them even being aware was part of the fun of it too, which is like let them think that you're setting the thing up, but you're actually rolling.
Sometimes we got some pieces that were really great, especially in the diner scene. The monster is very much a metaphor for Joe's grief, and the film builds to this really emotional climax where he's talking to the monster, and he's really telling the monster what he needs to hear.
I'm curious how you, as the director, kind of went about building towards that moment, while also making a monster that is scary, and terrifying, and was killing people, kind of marrying those two ideas while you're crafting the story. That this thing that he had to confront, who he had to get right up to, and look in the eyes, and who had to see him. Recovering from the accident, the kids find the wreck littered with strange white cubes. The kids approach the truck and discover Dr.
Woodward Glynn Turman , their biology teacher, behind the wheel of the truck. He instructs them to never talk about what they saw; otherwise, they and their parents will be killed. Moments afterwards, the U. Air Force , led by Colonel Nelec Noah Emmerich , arrives to secure the crash site while the kids flee.
After days of strange phenomena, including pets running miles away, kitchen appliances, car engines, and power lines disappearing, people being abducted, the Air Force deliberately starts a wildfire outside of town. This gives them a pretense to evacuate the entire town to the local Air Force base. Joe , Charles , Cary and Martin sneak back into town and head to their school, where they break into Woodward's stash of confiscated items, thinking he may have hidden in the stash documentation about the creature that might help them save Alice.
In the papers, film, and audio recordings found, they discover that the government imprisoned an extraterrestrial Bruce Greenwood that crashed on Earth in The alien only wished to rebuild its ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature 's advanced technology and intellect. One film shows Woodward , a researcher at the time, being attacked by the alien. This physical contact caused him to form a telepathic bond with the alien , through which he learned that it only wanted to go home.
By colliding with the train, he hoped to free the alien.
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