The guns were replaced with walkie-talkies in the re-release.
says he made a mistake editing guns out of his 1982 film E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial in an anniversary edition of the movie.Upon first release, the film’s theatrical cut includes a scene of police officers chasing young kids with firearms. Spielberg edited the guns out for the 20th anniversary re-release of the film in 2002, replacing them with walkie-talkies.“That was a mistake. I never should have done that,” Spielberg said at the Time 100 Summit. “E.T. is a product of its era.
"E.T. was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie-talkies… Years went by and I changed my own views. “I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there.”“Nobody should ever attempt to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka! Ever!” Spielberg joked before adding: “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage.
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