four of the biggest money making films of recent times have come from two young gifted filmmakers journlg lucas and steven spielberg. they're friends, as well. it was inevitable these two would join talents and now have an adventure film to be released this week.

♪ >> george says i have something called rangers of the lost ark. an idea for a vie. he told me about the story of there adventurer archaeologist with the hat and whip. i committed to the movie based on a one-line story george told me. then larry george and i sat around for three days and beichele made up the story from beginning to end. >> there's a line in raiders it means a lot to me. just buried in the middle of a big action sequence, they've lost control of the arc of the covenant. indy says i'm going to get it back. his friend says how. >> i don't know i'm making this up as i go. >> that to me was what life was like. we just make it up as we go. indiana jones is very good at that. >> we came up with an idea like a truck chase.

and then we figured how do we get the truck chase in the movie? so we had these big kind of subjects and then we kind of reverse engineered in order for it to earn its place in the story. spielberg is a master of staging. even when they're moving very fast and cutting very quickly, you always know the lay of the land. >> he can create suspense out of details big and small. there's always the action that the audience can see but the characters can't see. so, the audience is aware that not only is indy maybe going to get beaten to death by this enormous nazi, but also the whole thing might blow up. >> you wonder why your blood gets up when you watch them. it's craftsmanship and art. ♪ >> everybody in this town is

talking about steven spielberg's latest film "e.t.." i was there at 12:00 noon today and there were literally thousands of people in line to get in. >> e.t. has become the movie industry's biggest money maker ever. >> i had the story i was going to talk about how the divorce between my mom and dad affected my sister and i. i did how the alien was divorced from his species and is lost 3 million miles from home. >> can you imagine that film didn't have the kids, every one of them, that's the secret sauce to that movie. >> i just want to say good-bye. >> all the kids had fallen in love with e.t., and i like to think that e.t. had fallen in love with them. that good-bye scene was genuine. those tears were real.

steven spielberg movies, they're big blockbusters, but they're personal stories. they are small stories told against a giant canvas. >> they're here! >> in the 1980s i really felt i was speaking to myself, loving escapism. "poltergeist" was about all the things that scared me. i had a tree out my window used to scare the hell out of me, so what happens in "poltergeist"? the tree comes in and steals the kid. the goonnys discovered the riches to save their parent's home. gremlins tearing things up, just loving stories that were bizarre. >> everybody has dreams or thoughts, fantasies back in time

somewhere. and bob put it together for modern age. >> you're telling me you built a time machine? out of a do lore yan. >> why not do it in style? >> it was a mystery that it was as big a hit as it was when it came out. but what the real mystery was that it's endured for decades. >> saturday night, we're sending you back to the future. >> simple idea which is what would it be like to see your parents when they were younger is something that obviously is multigenerational. >> you smoke too? >> you're beginning to sound just like my mother. >> the only thing that was weird about the story, it's a boy going back in time and meeting his mother and she falls in love with the son she hasn't yet had. that was pretty kinky for me. >> that's a big bruise you have there. >> but they pulled it off.

i was exhausted at the end of "back to the future." and then he makes "who framed roger rabbit." it's like he took "back to the future" and tripled it. >> you're under arrest. >> there's a scene where donald duck and daffy duck are having a piano dual. at the same time, penguins are serving drinks. it's chaos. there's real actors pretending to be drinking. there's trays moving around on iron rods. that's a hard movie. that's an ignorance is bliss category that that movie should fall into. that's a movie that no sane person would attempt to make. >> i love playing villains. when i was a kid, the first walt disney film came out, there are dark moments in each of those that scare the hell out of me,

so it's pay back. >> when i kill you, i talk just like this! >> i got some moments in there that will be in their worse nightmares for the rest of their lives. >> the trick to making that blend of live action and animation is that the live action actor has to believe it. bob always believed that the rabbit was there. >> it really is an amenopausing performance. it's one that actors should study. >> because it was made before a lot of cgi was made, it was old school movie making with special effects. "who fraumed roger rabbit" is the most complicated movie ever made. >> don't tell me you lost your sense of humor already. >> does this answer your question? ♪

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