![]() ![]() “I got overly sensitive to to ‘E.T.’ and I thought if technology ever evolved … it was OK for a while, but I realized what I had done was I had robbed people who loved ‘E.T.’ of their memories of ‘E.T.’” Not because of fan outrage, but because I was disappointed in myself,” Spielberg said in 2011. the Extra-Terrestrial,” Spielberg said a future Blu-ray release would restore the film to its original version. In 2011, just before the 30th anniversary of “E.T. While his comment generated headlines across the media landscape – yes, even right here at this very site – Spielberg has expressed his regrets before. So I really regret having that out there.” All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. “I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. “‘E.T.’ was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie-talkies… Years went by and I changed my own views,” Spielberg explained. The edit in question – which has long since been reversed – used digital effects advances to change guns in the hands of federal agents into walkie-talkies. “No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.” ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era,” Spielberg said. the Extra-Terrestrial” for a home release. ![]() Speaking at the TIME 100 Summit recently, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said he made “a mistake” years ago when he edited guns out of “ E.T. Steven Spielberg is not in favor of changing past art to adhere to modern cultural sensibilities. ![]()
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