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In order to connect audiences with Elliot and E.T., director Steven Spielberg shot the movie mostly from the eye-level of a child. For the first half of the movie, the adults, with the exception of Elliot and Gertie's mother, played by Dee Wallace, are never seen from the waist up.
In order to connect audiences with Elliot and E.T., director Steven Spielberg shot the movie mostly from the eye-level of a child. For the first half of the movie, the adults, with the exception of Elliot and Gertie's mother, played by Dee Wallace, are never seen from the waist up.