Could someone share images of the original E.T. with the guns in the cops hands and an image of the redone E.T. with the walkie talkies? I googled for it and couldn't find anything.

And, if possible, any pictures of differences in the Star Wars movies to the Special Editions would be appricated. I'm mostly looking for those E.T. differences though.

Well.. seeing as the DVD has both versions..

Then someone taking a screen shot of it won't be too hard, will it?

Someone's too lazy to do their own dirty work...

dvd.ign.com is your friend (well, not really)


1982 version


2002 version

That looks very... expensive.

I am wondering and is still wondering, how the hell did they managed to erase it digitally?

It's not too hard - it just requires very good digital painting skills.

Yep. A Photoshop can do the job. However it would be quite painful to do it frame by frame.

Is it just my eyes... or do the original guns look just as fake, if not more so, than the walkie-talkies?!?!

Can understand the pain and agony, it really require skill to do it frame by frame!!

looking at the picture that's exactly what I thought.

I can see that too, but it looks natural in the actual movie.

This just shows Spielberg's every changing directorial tastes. In the theatrical cut they were guns, on the DVD, they're walkie talkies.

In his original cut, screened before a select group of Freemasons and President Reagan, the agents were holding ice cream cones. After complaints that this didn't seem threatening enough, he digitally replaced the cones with guns.

I call shenanigans on JoeyOhhhh's pictures. These aren't from the same frame. On the top one, ET is facing forward. On the bottom, he is looking to the right. My guess is that they put down the guns and picked up the walkie-talkies between shots.

Another intentionally misleading post?

And what's all that crap on the street? It appears that Spielberg is anti-guns and anti-street-sweepers.

if spielberg was anti guns, then spr would have been iwth walkie talkies also

Much thanks to JoeyOohh.

Back in the old days the so-called "articulated matte" was used all of the time, it may still be even in today's CGI crazy world. I remember seeing some of a docu on the FX in Raiders of the Lost Ark (I'm not a rabid fan of that movie so others probably know more about this) where a few seconds of a villian hanging over a cliff had to be matched up with a painted background, and a black matte had to be hand drawn, frame by frame, to be able to meld the different images together on one negative, and match up with the movement of the hanging figure. This required 24 drawings X the few seconds of the shot, probably three or four, so over 70 drawings for a few seconds of film.

(flick may have been "IJ and the Temple of Doom")

Damn it! My plan to undermine the anti-censorship faction has been found out!

Honestly, I got them from Ign, I don't have the DVD, so I can't give an more accurate shot.

I was thinking along the line if they happen to have a exact same shot of the scenario without any people standing there, then it will definetely be possible and easier to erase the gun digitally. But to paint it frame by frame, i think it is really require skills and patience!

spielberg is just anti-anyone else having guns, i hear he has a vast collection of machine guns

He also digitally replaced the guy on the left with George W. Bush!