12 Movie Scenes You Didn’t Know Were Reshoots

12. The Government Tent - E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

E.T is famed for being one of the only films to come with a warning issuing the fact that it can force grown men to burst into tears at its gut-wrenching ending.

The movie is just as famous as its director, Steven Spielberg - who noticed that during test screenings of his first movie, Jaws, audiences weren't being as frightened my the man-eating shark as he wished them to be.

So it's no surprise that when it came to E.T The Extra-Terrestrial, he paid extra attention to building the reaction he wanted from his audience. As mentioned, the movie is famed for its emotional ending: but that wasn't always going to be the case.

Steven Spielberg originally planned on having the film's title character die in the government captivity tent after he is taken from Elliot and his family. With Spielberg wanting E.T to be a significantly more family-friendly movie than Jaws, he changed his mind.

If he didn't, we wouldn't have gotten one of the most paused moments in cinema history: the iconic shot of Elliot and E.T flying their bike in front of the light reflected by the moon. This would have caused more problems for Spielberg down the line, as that later became the logo for his company, Amblin Entertainment.