The plot of the movie "ET" is the Christ story!

[KurtNYC]

He comes from the heavens
attracts a band of followers
is persecuted by the government
heals (Elliot) with his touch
dies
comes back to life
ascends back to heaven

!

[grasswire]

1. JC, phone home

(I don't mean that in a disrespectful way)

[NC_Nurse]

2. Heh.

I never thought of that. Cool.

[Chan790]

3. Question?

and I mean no disrespect to anybody with it, but since it's my impression that Steven Spielberg had a large hand in the script:

Why would a religiously-semi-active Jewish person want to tell the Christ story? (I mean I can see it possibly as view of Jesus as prophet but certainly not the last three plot points, which sell Jesus as the Messiah.)

[KurtNYC]

5. It is an archetypal story

the central myth of Western civilization. And it was put into a different form; sufficiently bastardized to the point that it was treated as a new story and most did not make the connection.

Jaws is Moby Dick btw.

[amitten]

4. Um...yeah. People have said that since it was first released.

You're far from alone with your theory! :)

[Deja Q]

6. Yeah but 'god' Spielberg erased the guns and put in walkie talkies instead...

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