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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 Science Fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, with the screenplay written by Melissa Mathison.
This trope refers to when a revolution loses revolutionary zeal and appears to just repeat the pre-revolution business as usual, via self-motivated corruption and bureaucratic inertia. Names and rhetoric change, the injustices stay the same .
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens with a small group of alien botanists secretly visiting Earth under cover of night to gather plant specimens in a California forest. When government agents appear on the scene, the aliens flee in their spaceship (or UFO), but in their haste, one of them is left behind.
Basic Trope: A revolution that successfully overthrows and replaces a tyrant ends up being just as oppressive, if not even worse. Straight: Alice organizes a revolution and leads the Troperian Liberty Front to overthrow Emperor Evulz.
The Extra-Terrestrial video game provides examples of: Adaptational Badass : Elliott, who will scare away the agent and scientist. Anti-Frustration Feature : Attempted.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was one of the games responsible for The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 and put a severe early dent in the E.T. name as well as haunting Warner/Disney exec Frank Wells and E.T. director Steven Spielberg.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is perhaps Steven Spielberg's signature fantasy film. It was the biggest blockbuster of 1982 and, in fact, The Eighties as a whole. John Williams' score, flying bicycles, and an Ugly Cute alien hero are just the tip of the iceberg here.
