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...until its last film, Black Hole, Disney resisted this temptation. To bell with declining morals, here was a family company that would produce stuff for general admission. The thrill came from good old fashioned...
Auto racing is like downhill skiing. The competitor must combat his surroundings. When the racer strays past his limits, nature reacts and a tragedy often occurs. The spectators who observe these sports are thrill seekers and prefer to see nonviolent events. However, the violence in hockey, football and boxing is the result of man against man. The fans loudly cheer the contestants on. When injury results here, it is inexcusable...
...chomp in the night. Search the skies for a Close Encounter, and you can chart a child's hope that whoever is out there will be just like him: small and smooth and smart and cuddly. Track the Lost Ark's Raiders, and you will discover the thrill of escape that whets the imagination of every fifth-grade Indiana Jones...
...ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E.T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator. They re-establish the movie screen as a magic lantern, where science plays tricks on the eye as an artist enters the heart and nervous system with images that bemuse and beguile...
...into space. Sometimes they beat the walls with sticks. Sometimes, they pick a victim and surround him, chanting. When they get really upset, they take off their clothes. And as punked-out zombies scream from the stage, alternately mocking and seducing the audience, our exclusion becomes part of the thrill...