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Essef - Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers - or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl - may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophizing about extraterrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call."
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Condition: Used. Is this "the great American novelization" (said the New Yorker wife to her hard-typing spouse)? Spielberg, the director of Jaws, has novelized his own filmscript for his science-fantasy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which goes into release Christmas week. And for most of the way he manages to titillate the reader toward the book's big all-stops-pulled superfireworks finale. The subject is "the most important moment in the history of the world": contact with visitors from outer space. Not just visitors, but a whole skydarkening city of visitors, which is touching down in Wyoming. Harbingers of the tremendous event are everywhere, with a madness of flying saucers over Indiana, weird electrical phenomena, power blackouts and - the return of that Navy flight squadron lost in the Devil's Triangle back in '45, its pilots still the same age! The story's big middle scene, a chiller where ali the electrical appliances in a house go crazy, with a vacuum cleaner chasing the heroine, seems out of tone with the "religious" jubilation of the climax - but few will care. Nor are Spielberg's strategies as a novelist equal to the stunning visuals of the glorious finale he roughs in. Perhaps the book's main flaw is that it exposes the two-dimensional characters that the film may flesh out. Otherwise - great entertainment. Seller Inventory # 910
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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
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ISBN 13: 9780440114338
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