
FILM MUSIC ANALYSIS
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
FILM MAKER: STEVEN SPIELBERG
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Original music composed by John Williams.
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Non diegetic: it's a kind of back-ground music to reinforce the main emotion of the sequence, one of the most iconic of the whole film.
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Integrated music: it's justified in the plot because it reinforces one of the emotional climax.
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Convergent music: the same previous explanation.
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Sequence music: it's a sequence during he development of the film.
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Music in a first plane: it sounds in a an increasing volume and stands out. It can be a leitmotiv because the same melody appears during two similar scenes; boys are cycling in the space and when he or they (in the second video) passess across the moon or the sun (in the second video), this magical moment is reinforced with the same music.