Forget about Giorgio A. Tsoukalos —yes, the man with the hair from the “Aliens” meme—, because it seems that Steven Spielberg is going to become our trusted ufologist now that Iker Jiménez cares more about other, more mundane things; and it is that the King Midas of Hollywood seems to have things quite clear with regard to our possible galactic neighbors.
Intergalactic afternoon session
A couple of months ago we told you that the person responsible for modern classics such as ‘ET, the alien’ or ‘Encounters in the third phase’ I theorized about the possibility that we are no longer alone in the universebut that those visitors will be ourselves in 500,000 years and not the typical little green men of the popular imagination.
Well, during an interview with Stephen Colbert, the presenter asked Spielberg what would be the movie that would teach aliens if they came to visit us one day. A question for which the filmmaker, a priori, does not find a clear and concise answer, but which Colbert resolves by suggesting ‘Symphony of life’ by Sam Wood, starring William Holden and Martha Scott.
“It tries to objectively observe the human experience. It is a deconstruction of what is beautiful and precious in each day of our lives. For me it would be something like that, the joy of the daily life that we do not quite see.”
After the interviewer’s reflection, the interviewer twists the question to find out what movie would not show them, to which the filmmaker jokingly responds that ‘Nope’, by Jordan Peele, which he acknowledges having enjoyed. Of course, he believes that they could like him in a somewhat tricky way to end up turning her into his emblem.
Finally, Steven Spielberg found a chosen one to represent our species, and that is none other than ‘How beautiful it is to live’; tape that, according to the director, “shows the best and worst of ourselves in a single story”. Cliche? Can. Right choice? Also.
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