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In this mythical film centered on the friendship between a child and a nice extraterrestrial, he could have been born an idyll … who could have made that and less want to telephone home!
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Childhood filmmaker, Steven Spielberg has amazed generations of spectators, from Indiana Jones to Hook via the wonderful and .. films where parents are often in baking when it is not a question of solo parents. In The Fabelmans, we understand better Spielberg tropism for divorced moms: although a little romanticized, this autobiography tells the love born between the mother of the young Steven and her “uncle” Bernie, a good friend of the family, whom she will marry in second marriage. A separation that visibly marked him, becoming a recurring theme of his cinema, and with which he seems to have finally made peace.
An extraordinary love story
Signed by Melissa Mathison, then wife of Harrison Ford, the script is largely inspired by the director of the director, a lonely child of divorced parents. If, before rescosing the script with the scenarist, the film was rather becoming a horror film closer to The Thing than this sweet family comedy, Spielberg nevertheless insisted to keep a secondary intrigue … finally suppressed.
In the podcast “Still Here Hollywood”, Dee Wallace, who played Mary, Elliot's mother (Henry Thomas) and little Gertie (Drew Barrymore), reveals that in a first version, the little botanist would have the Beguin for the mother of his young friend. “In a scene, he comes to deposit Reese's ( Coanut butter treatss, editor's note) on my bedside table while I sleep. Spielberg wanted the sheet to descend a little lower than what suited me. “Dee Wallace refuses, arguing for a family film! She convinces Melissa Mathison and producer Kathleen Kennedy to publish the sheet on her modestly, to avoid any ambiguity about the feelings of the little extraterrestrial … that Spielberg had to confuse with his stepfather.
