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Article: Ray Bradbury.(SCI-FI & FANTASY)
- Article from:
- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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He's the giant of the genre, and so it means something when Bradbury says, "My favorite science-fiction movie is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' because it's philosophical, it's religious. It fits together pieces of the universe."
Never at a loss to explain what he means, the scribe continues at rapid-fire speed: "If you look at the Sistine Chapel ceiling, God reaches down through space to touch the hand of Adam, and Adam has his hand out toward God and the contact is made. That is the great thing about Steven Spielberg's film: We are in touch with another part of the universe, and the two halves of the universe are connected. You come out of that movie ...