Steven Spielberg has said that he regrets editing out guns from the 1980s classic film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.The science fiction film premiered in 1982, and follows an alien who was left behind on Earth after the rest of his family were chased away by US government vehicles.
During his stay, he met a 10-year-old boy who sheltered him and promised to keep him safe until he returned home.Speaking at the New York Times 100 Summit on Tuesday (April 25) the iconic director made remarks regarding editing a scene to feature federal agents holding walkie-talkies instead of guns when they were chasing the children for the 20th anniversary special edition of the film. .Spielberg explained why he initially thought removing the weapons was a great idea, but he realised later that it “was a mistake”.“I never should have done that,” Spielberg said. “E.T.
is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”He continued: “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.
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