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I'm glad to know Mr. Spielberg finally realized the mother ship interiors were a mistake. If he'd asked me, I would have told him from the get-go. As I wrote when he first announced his intentions, "I don't want to know the chemical composition of Peter Pan's fairy dust, I don't want to peek behind the Lone Ranger's mask, and I really don't want to see inside the mother ship."
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Cotopaxi? The volcano? I don't remember what scene you're referring to. I also can't keep track of the different cuts and what's in or not in them. If memory serves, though, I was disappointed when I no longer heard the line, "They can fly rings around the moon, but we're years ahead of them on the highway."
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Preston, here's what Wikipedia says: SS Cotopaxi was a tramp steamer named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano. She vanished in December 1925, while en route from Charleston, South Carolina, United States, to Havana, Cuba, with all hands.... In the 1980 Director's Cut of the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cotopaxi is discovered,[9] located in the Gobi Desert, presumably set there by extraterrestrial forces. In a documentary on the making of the film, it is said that the model they used looked nothing like the actual vessel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cotopaxi
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Hey Bob... Nope, trust me on this... they never went into the ship... that was the whole point of that scene; they chose NEARY to go, and that was why they "implanted" the vision of Devils Tower in the minds of "everyday people"... they didn't want government types... they wanted you and me!
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Sean, thanks! I remember that scene well, it was very effective, but I never noticed the name on the ship.
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