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Hey, what the fuck was up with those hand signals in "Close Encounters of the Third Way"?

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i mean, srlsy, what the fuck?

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/images/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-13.jpg

Also, C/D: getting a central figure of the french new wave to play the creepy foreign guy?

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

also, best way to communicate with visitors:

http://www.synthfool.com/images/ceot3k1.jpg

a double-decker analog synth
(in this case: an Arp 2500)

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

and its own pinball table

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

so when do you hit the college comedy circuit?

― Jumpman (account), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Third Way," huh?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Third Way," huh?

i'm sorry. i've been mixing my political blog reading with my late 70s sci-fi again.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

maybe Truffaut came up with it as an homage to Belmondo's face semaphore from Breathless

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Close Encounters of the Third Way
1977 documentary, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, which sees Anthony Giddens and Tony Blair meet intergalactic tourists whilst on George Bush's ranch in Texas.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

Close Encounters of the Three Way was a favorite of mine in ninth grade

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

"watch out for unidentified bi-ing objects...of desire!"

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

a double-decker analog synth
(in this case: an Arp 2500)

The synth player in the movie is actually Philip Dodds of ARP...

Philip, Your appearance in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" made synthesizers more visible to a wide audience. Tell us more about your work on the film. Did you compose the famous alien tune?
Philip Dodds
No I didn't compose the tune, but it's an interesting story nonetheless (at least to me!). I was called down as a "subject expert" to install the 2500 system on the set--ARP was to get some screen credits for this--and I was there in Mobile AL to make sure all was well. (This wasn't unusual; I helped with other films such as Logan's Run and some of the early Star Trek films--to support the sound effects and score folks).

To make a long story a bit longer, John Williams prescored Close Encounters--which is a bit unusual I'm told--the score is often done after the fact. Spielberg wanted the music to drive the concept and went to Williams early-on to work out the haunting theme that was used throughout. (I still have the original score Williams gave me to "play" during the filming--it's all for traditional instruments...)

On the final day of installation of the 2500 down there, I hooked it up to a huge four channel system (on the set) and cut loose with all of the sequencers and sound effects I could muster from the console. It was fabulous. This was in a huge dirigible hanger (since there was no set in Hollywood big enough) and the sounds echoed for miles, I was told.

The next day, Spielberg and Williams came to the set and asked for a demonstration of the synthesizer's capabilities. (Spielberg introduced me to George Lucas, who had just completed post production of Star Wars, and visited the set that day as well, but I was clueless about it all at the time.)

Williams asked for "an oboe" sound, then "a trumpet" sound. Etc. Etc. Piece of cake, I thought. This is fun. (Except that I had to fly out a 4PM to get home, so I hoped they would hurry up.)

Then Spielberg came to the console and asked--"have you had any acting experience?" I said, well, no. "Would you like to try?" I said, yeah, I guess (I was 25). Cool. In a matter of hours I had a contract in my hand and I was signed on. For the next 9 weeks, Columbia Pictures owned me. I learned a lot and it was a great experience.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's not worth thinking too deeply about any of Close Encounters, dude. The only way the movie works is on a fantasy/dreamlike level. If you start looking for things like logical explanations, you're gonna come up short.

This was Spielberg's thing with sci-fi in the 80s. It's not sci-fi. It's a fable dressed up in sci-fi duds. Once you start looking at these films through an adult's eyes, lots of things are likely to frustrate you.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking forward to "Close Encounters of the Third Republic" with Dreyfus as George Clemenceau and Truffaut as Jean Jaurès.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's been awhile since I saw the film, and I can't remember any hand signals. What were they?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Little sign language gestures corresponding to the notes in 'doo do doooo bwaa bwaaaaah.'

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Then there's the classic thriller, "Close Encounters of the Third Stream", in which Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett get caught up in a murder mystery after headlining a show together in Zurich.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

The upcoming biopic of Karl Rove "Close Encounters of the Turd Blossom" is probably not going to be very good, though.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

so was it phil dodds who says
'if we're all ready on the dark side of the moon..' just before they start playing the notes? if so he's on TOM MIDDLETON'S mix cd 'the trip' ! how cool?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Scroll down to Solfeggio.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

that's also sampled on ye olde nightmares on wax track.

xpost

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

are you sure you don't mean Sweet Exorcists Testone?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Alien gang shapes. "Yo yo yo, we'll give ya the crazy mashed potato dude, but after that ya head back to y'own turf, K?"

― Offisa Pump (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

are you sure you don't mean Sweet Exorcists Testone?
-- Ste (ste.foste...), June 20th, 2006.

same difference.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

someone should remix this part so that Truffaut looks like he's voguing

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I like Spielberg himself, was always a little bit unsure of his original, unscreened version of Schindler's List: Close Encounters Of The Third Reich.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

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― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

GIF WILL GIEV ME NIGTHMARES

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

SEXY NIGHTMAERS

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

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― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/commencement04/podium.hand86.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I grew up just off of the real Cornbread Road, which in the movie is where Dreyfuss' character has his first encounter with the UFO.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

This should be the title for a hetero anal pr0n movie.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

You're from Muncie, too, Earl???

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I grew up there.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.scotsman.com/2005/06/15/1506chirb.jpg

― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kodaly.org.au/Images/handsign.gif

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

a female deer?

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

From the Wikipedia article:
The motif woven through the film is re - mi - do - do (octave lower) - sol. At the climactic scene, François Truffaut and the alien use Kodály Hand Signs to express this motif.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_Of_The_Third_Kind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture#Kod.C3.A1ly_Hand_Signs

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

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