Sotheby's’ Post

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So this guy needs no introduction, but I will introduce him. This is, of course, ET from Spielberg's incredible 1982 film. This is a film that transcends generations. I saw it in the theaters when I was a kid. My child has seen it. Everybody loves this film. Nobody escapes this film without crying. And this was a character that Rambaldi, and this is coming directly from the estate of Carlo Rambaldi. Who designed and created the ET figure for the film? He wanted to make sure this character was empathetic. He wanted to show that we could overcome our fears, overcome our anxieties about others, and that that's what this whole film is about. A detail that I really love about ET is the eyes. This here is an example of the left eye and how it works. I mean, he spared no detail. He worried about the eyelids. He worried about the movement of the eye. And he actually got the eyes for ET from his daughter's cat. So if you look really closely, you'll see they're definitely. Very feline shaped, but I think that was really key to making ET and empathetic character.