It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater.Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class.
Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming came back to him: "It was, like, 95° in Mobile, Alabama, and, like, 80% humidity.I remember that!" he laughed.Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss), haunted by a mysterious vision following an alien encounter, puts two and two together when he sees a TV news report from Devil's Tower, Wyoming – information that is first revealed to the audience via Spielberg's widescreen composition, information revealed very slowly, and effectively."Right there you say, Wait a second, did I see what I think I saw?" said Spielberg.
"And then, who are you gonna watch? Are you gonna watch the [TV] screen, or are you gonna watch the actor? Richard's great, but you're watching the [TV] screen now."Watch: Steven Spielberg gives commentary on a scene from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (Video) "Close Encounters" ends with the arrival of the aliens.Forty-nine years later, Spielberg imagines they never left, but their presence has been systematically denied and covered up, in his new film, "Disclosure Day.""'Disclosure Day' is about how, if somebody had the power and if somebody had possession of the entire archive of visual evidence of what's been happening for the last 80 years, what would happen if they decided to do a data dump across the entire world all at once?" Spielberg said.
"And the people who are trying to stop that data dump from happening, that is basically the core of this chase movie."It's part chase flick, part '70s thriller, and part big tech conspiracy, all colliding to make "Disclosure Day' a sci-fi story for a modern audience.With faith in institutions lower than in the post-Watergate 1970s, is it a better time to release "Disclosure Day," to have buy-in from the audience that such a conspiracy could exist? "Oh yeah," Spielberg said.
"I can't speak for the...