Close Encounters of the Third Kind (4/8) Movie CLIP - Roy's Mashed Potatoes (1977) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) has a mental breakdown at dinner with his family.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses an unidentified flying object, and even has a "sunburn" from its bright lights to prove it. Neary's wife and children are at first skeptical, then concerned, and eventually fearful, as Roy refuses to accept a "logical" explanation for what he saw and is prepared to give up his job, his home, and his family to pursue the "truth" about UFOs. Neary's obsession eventually puts him in contact with others who've had close encounters with alien spacecraft, including Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mother whose son disappeared during her UFO experience, and Claude Lacombe (celebrated French filmmaker François Truffaut), a French researcher who believes that we can use a musical language to communicate with alien visitors. Lacombe's theory is put to the test when a band of government researchers and underground UFO enthusiasts (including Neary) join for an exchange with alien visitors near Devil's Tower, Wyoming. In 1980, a "Special Edition" was released. While its primary selling point was the addition of scenes inside the alien spaceship, Spielberg claimed that he also cleaned up some choppy editing in the second act.
CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1977)
Cast: Shawn Bishop, Justin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Adrienne Campbell, Teri Garr
Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Clark L. Paylow, Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Screenwriters: Hal Barwood, Jerry Belson, Matthew Robbins, Steven Spielberg, John Hill
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[@cugamer8862]

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

[@joshproductions4283]

My thoughts exactly

[@amandaadrienne4910]

I loved that Simpsons episode!!!

[@theverminmediaareyourenemi5612]

"I don't think any of us expected that....."

[@nicoledenise32]

LMAO !!!

[@Chris55433]

Not sure how many times I watched that Simpsons episode and had no idea it was a spoof until 10 minutes ago, while watching a KZbin video of the first million dollar winner on "Who wants to be a millionaire", one of the questions was about making Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Then it clicked. I had to find this clip.

[@Danimal1177]

I recreated this scene so much as a child that my mom stopped making mashed potatoes.

[@kxmode]

Is that when you started crafting a mountain in the kitchen?

[@rashmirekhasrimany]

I dont blame you. I would have done the same. Its quite appealing to create something with mashed potato and a fork.

[@NATEFLIX3000]

I do the same thing but at Golden Corral

[@chuckscott4661]

@ kxmode. No, but it is the day that he murdered her with an ax.

[@gabbynye7536]

Same 😅

[@yuenhai]

"Yes Homey? Doot-doot-doo-root-doot-doot-doot-doot"

[@UntaintedSKS]

That's it You People Have Stood In My Way Long Enough I'm Going To Clown College

[@zalabit927]

Lmao

[@bja808]

@@UntaintedSKS i don’t think anyone of us expected him to say that

[@KeiFox]

There's always something very emotional and heart-aching about this sequence. The way how both Roy and his children are crying, it's showing how Roy knows that his behavior and obsession are affecting his family in a way that's tearing them apart; but he can't run away from the vision that's been given.

[@killer92173]

@CSLOUISE yeah watching as his obsession slowly tears his family apart really makes these scenes hard to watch.

[@angelamarie88]

And here I am just thinking, "gosh that child is a really good actor." I mean let's get real, that's what's really going on here.

[@9juju6]

The chuckle stifled by his tears as he’s trying to reassure his kids is absolutely heartbreaking to me. “Well I guess you’ve noticed something… a little strange with dad”.

[@elizabethfigueroa6159]

God the acting in this scene is incredible, especially the sons tears, it’s not overly dramatic, it’s just confusion and sadness and overwhelming feeling of seeing your father not be himself and unable to do anything about it. Child actors these days just over act almost airbrushes, this is just subtle and impactful.

[@richardvinsen2385]

The son does a phenomenal job.

[@hiyetu34]

Yeah it's the best . It's remained with me for years after seeing this .

[@pianoman8642]

I think the reason Spielberg is so successful is that he can include children in his films and not be annoying

[@sithnchips]

Exactly… I remember starting to cry whenever my own folks did just bc it was instinctual. Another realistic aspect Spielberg was able to convey.

[@Plathismo]

Spielberg's magic touch directing kids is on full display--I've always been impressed with the boy's acting here.

[@Katy-sh3ru]

This scene is expertly done. Spielberg was so good at the people stuff.

[@jakeday4101]

Still is. Always will be

[@partsparis]

Watch his 2017 doco his parents last appearances before they pass away

[@khadennowack9303]

R.I.P. Melinda Dillon (1939-2023)🕊 You were an amazing Actress and your legacy will live on in many years to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family, friends and loved ones during this difficult time❤️

[@mknomad5]

He's not overacting, if this was really happening to you, your reaction would be extreme too. It's when actors don't really go there in that confusing, insane place in this sort of situation, that it's UNDER-acting. We are acclimated to these scenarios so much that we have lost touch with what the real deal would be like.

[@773SleepyHollow]

Thank you! This is a stable, mentally healthy guy, and he has had an experience that he probably associates with con artists and nutjobs. He can't just let it go, as much as he might like to, and it's tearing him apart.

[@LinkMcStink]

I actually delivered a pizza to that house once. I asked them if they'd ever seen this movie and they just stared at me like I was one of those aliens.

[@jytudkins]

You asked them if YOU had seen it?

[@joel8583]

LMAO!!!!

[@Baghuul]

I once delivered pizza to some meth heads, they begged me to join in, I did... Now my front theeths gone a missin

[@VBCVeryBigChannel]

SirGarforth You actually didn’t though

[@Baghuul]

@@sk84phun was good with it yo!

[@amandaadrienne837]

Kid actor is AMAZING

[@773SleepyHollow]

I like everyone in the scene... the youngest is still not quite attuned to things, so her reaction is, "Huh, look at that . Anyway..." It's all so well-done.

[@Koldeman]

I was thinking the same thing. Kid doesn't have one line but is kept continuously in the same shot as Roy. Idk if he's acting or just reacting to Dreyfuss' performance but it perfectly captured the anguish in that house.

[@kokwah5517]

Seen this movie with my mum on a Saturday afternoon. In 1977 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Name of Cinema was Odeon! Met my schoolmate with his mum too. Blink of an eye!! I am 53 now and mum is 75. Dad still around at76.

[@gaston.]

best film scene showing the artist & their creative process and why they usually end up being alone.

[@arthurinuk]

The kid's distress gets me every time.

[@carl_anderson9315]

I hate that his wife actually read about the UFO sighings in the newspapers and she knew there were dozens of witnesses, yet still treats him like he’s crazy, and every time he tries to talk about it she ignores him...

[@jonathanlocke6404]

I think the concept was just too overwhelming for her to deal with. She had the kids to think about. She just wanted it to go away. That's how most people would be.

[@Nhamp2000]

@@jonathanlocke6404 Especially back then. UFO sightings/abductions were usually ridiculed and the only reporting was usually relegated to the tabloids. Her reaction, I think, is totally spot on.

[@daustin8888]

Are you serious. She took it pretty well. She reached her breaking point seeing her husband in a shower crying. Then the next day when he went full blown soup-sandwhich crazy and destroyed their home.

[@carl_anderson9315]

@@daustin8888 I totally get it. Till that point, when he goes completely crazy and wrecks the house it was beyond enough. But at least she could have listened to him instead of pretending nothing was going on while the whole town was under the eye of the press, scientists and the government because of the UFO sightings. Instead she chose to be in complete denial.

[@2EKgn16]

@@carl_anderson9315 Exactly. She never showed that man any empathy or support...which also affected how the children handled it. The shower scene where she pushed him away was worse.

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Maaaarge..? Yes Homer? Do do dododo do do do do do.

[@UntaintedSKS]

That's it You People Have Stood In My Way Long Enough I'm Going To Clown College

[@jeffridgeway7474]

It’s such a beautifully sad scene. He’s losing his mind. And he’s trying his best to understand, but he’s seen too much.

[@Bizarronumber4]

I always love the look on Teri Garr's face in this scene.

[@773SleepyHollow]

It's only topped by the look she gave Dreyfuss when she left with the kids, and he told her that she was "acting crazy," or words to that effect.

[@Gary_Hun]

Comedic references from other things i just learned as a 35 year old that they are references: Homer making a circus tent in season 6 ep 15 'Homie the clown', George messing about with his mash in the movie 'UHF', and possibly the most striking as the character is also named Roy, IT Crowd season 4 episode 4 "Italian for beginners" where he is making a water park scene out of frustration finding out how the heck could it catch fire and kill anybody.

[@monsterlair]

"I hate these potatoes. There's a dead fly in my potatoes."

[@reubenherrera9827]

Played by the great Justin Dreyfuss.

[@DarknessIsThePath]

It was not a scripted line which makes it funnier lol

[@jaska8203]

Clown college? You can't eat THAT!

[@KarmaAce75]

doot doot doodoo doodoo doot doot doodoo

[@firecriss1392]

He's going to clown college!!! (via the funny farm route).

[@luckykhouphongsy59]

Homer simpson: marge.... Marge simpson: yes homey " do da do do da do da do circus song"

[@alexanderhamilton876]

I saw Weird Al do this in UHF, one of my favorite movies from childhood, so when I first figured out the parody while watching this movie, I was dying with laughter, but nobody knew what I was laughing at.

[@MooseCall]

I didn't know what it was from the first time I saw UHF, either. Lol

[@santiagofranco91952]

I saw this in a Simpsons episode. Where Homer creates a Circus with mashed potatoes.

[@bone9695]

Me planning how to get into area 51

[@zanytobbs]

Kids don't play with your food Seriously dad? lol

[@joel8583]

Like yeah, dad, don't be a hypocrite! Wink!

[@spritezilla_the_bebop]

Every single time I have mashed potatoes I make a little Devils Tower. I love this movie

[@xBloodXGusherx]

I always thought those mashed potatoes looked so delicious.

[@Condor1970]

For some reason, if this movie was to be made today, I could see Tom Hardy playing the lead. Mainly because Dreyfuss nailed it so well, I can't think of too many actors today that could really pull it off on that level.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

I don't know Hardy is good at playing a crazy person as proven with Fury Road and he is no stranger to Aliens due to Star Trek, but I just don't see him as the family man gone mad type. He's more of the badass hero/villain gone mad. Though he does take dedication to his roles so odds are if he did play Neary, he'd probably spend a week trying to make mashed potato art.

[@ExistentialWill]

Joaquin Phoenix can do crazy.

[@jonnybirchyboy1560]

This movie wouldn’t be made today, so stfu

[@dreamlandnightmare]

@@Shanethefilmmaker You should see him in Locke. He has far more range than action movie hero/villain.

[@moomoopuppy5810]

Why didn't Teri just make enough to feed the 3 of them, instead of enough to start making the Devils Tower.

[@jenniecormie6145]

Hilarious!

[@railwayhobo872]

I give this movie a a+

[@Anonymous18531]

I had to come back to this scene after seeing The Fablemans. Of all of Spielberg’s films, this one is changed the most by The Fablemans.

[@SeanDaRyan]

Ummmm I think I'll have some wine....

[@amandaadrienne837]

Ok Marge. Lol Simpson's forever ❤

[@garwoc216]

Do do do do dooo do do do doo do

[@Colddirector]

SeanDaRyan clown college? you can’t eat that.

[@KenPaulsenArchitect]

I had a religious experience.... which was/is hard to explain to my family. But "This means something."

[@mario_santino_dj]

Can't help but think about Homer... :')

[@exeterjedi6730]

He's not overacting. I've had bipolar, as has Richard, and yes, you do this stuff. The scene when he's chucking trees through the window is classic manic episode. I wonder if Richard used his psychosis as a base for his performance.

[@sithnchips]

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit… making use of one’s mentality is like the icing on the cake for genuity in acting in my opinion.

[@randyrobertson4686]

Either an on spot performance after reading the script for this take, or he just pulled it off because of his own personal struggles with bi-polar. Aside from the fact that I’m pretty sure Dreyfus was just portraying the character he was cast to play in his best thespian performance I could also say that he was fabulous at it due to his own struggles with Bi-polar disorder. Either way he performed spectacularly. He also performed well in Jaws and many other films but I truly believe Dreyfus was just great at adapting to his role and researched the elements and effects that said character suffered from. But I don’t personally know Richard, so I can’t really say with any amount of certainty if my presumptions hold merit. I will say that in “What about Bob”, he played a fantastic…”at the end of his rope, self loathing and greatly underrated and underestimated, Brilliant psychiatrist who finally wrote a book that was worthy of accolades from not just fellow psychiatrists but recognized enough for a TV interview on prime time television”. But his methods had unwittingly changed the life of a sociopathic, Tourette’s laden individual, who somehow managed to gain entrance into the most personal aspects of Leo Marvin’s life and gained the trust and admiration of his 2 children and ( presumably ) naive wife with a heart of gold. Despite Bob being as harmless in all reality to that of a 2 month old kitten, Leo convinces his family that Bob is a great danger to himself and the rest of the family. Despite all of this he is still dealing with the past family who owned the beautiful house that the Marvin’s now called their summer house and are at constant ends to see anything if not everything befall Leo in any and all aspects of his life. The prior family take much admiration and appreciation in Bob for any Ill gotten words that may have been made against the Marvin’s. I’m sorry….. I don’t know why I just inked several paragraphs of material pertaining to the movie “What About Bob” , when that was actually not relevant in my original comment or so I had started. I apologize and I will now tighten my lips to any and all mention of anything that is not relevant to the discussion and topic at hand. Actually, I am going to be making dinner now for the family, so sorry for any unnecessary and inconvenient readings that were totally unrelated to the original topic at hand. ☹️. SORRY

[@jonlcfc1]

@@randyrobertson4686 Don't worry. You made me want to watch the film. 👍🏻

[@colormedubious4747]

@@randyrobertson4686 Bob was faking the Tourette's. He also taught Siggy to fake it. 🤣

[@agentprime2179]

“THAT’S IT, YOU PEOPLE HAVE STOOD IN MY WAY LONG ENOUGH. I’M GOING TO CLOWN COLLEGE”.

[@chinookvalley]

When your family and friends think you have lost it - keep goin'. If you KNOW you are right, you must follow your self.

[@samurius562]

Unless you have Schizophrenia

[@joshqim3110]

Depending on the situation that could be terrible advice.

[@sandal_thong8631]

He almost stopped but got another epiphany when he tore the mountain top off.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Maybe my favorite Spielberg film, and he made a lot of good ones.

[@Justin_Leone]

This is the behavior of a man who is desperately grappling with the difficult decision whether or not to go to clown college.

[@StrideWarrior]

I do this scene every year at Thanksgiving since the 80's. LOL. It's basically a tradition.

[@musicman76enator]

This makes me crave mashed potatoes right now.

[@stephanienewbern769]

Were it not for Richard Dreyfuss, this film wouldn't be the classic that it is today.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Someone made an excellent thesis for how this movie is about communication and trouble communicating. Starting with the investigators needing a translator to talk with the Mexican witness. Then the lead investigator hires the translator to communicate with English-speakers. Here Roy has trouble communicating with his family, and they with him. In a deleted scene the father can't hear his son talking to him. The eldest son soon has a temper tantrum as his father is going crazy. And of course the aliens are trying to communicate with the humans using music, and finally hand signals. Although from an interview Spielberg said he chose a Frenchman to alter the trope of a German scientist investigating and explaining the aliens' intention. If he'd chosen a natural English-speaker as the lead investigator, they might not have had the translator character and the thesis would fall apart!

[@chiwhiner]

…I think I’ll have some wine.

[@timstill152]

The aliens apparently didn't take into consideration of the havoc their visit might cause many families relationships. I'd forgive them to see that incredible light show.

[@speculesgorgoth4055]

It hurts because you can't see what we see. We don't fit in but we want to. The shapes fill our minds we can't shut it off.

[@rickgastiger9934]

Don't play with your food,Now eat your Mash Potatoes.Terri Garr is Hot.

[@anthonycrea9876]

I still make Devil's Tower with my mashed potatoes from time to time. What??? Doesn't everybody??? Don't judge me!

[@ravenryuu]

same here! I remember watching this movie as a kid :-)

[@DylanPenev]

This is the inspiration for "Homer goes to Clown College" but where is the circus tent? :)

[@hiyetu34]

One of my favorite scenes

[@hypnomarket8649]

"Maaaarge"

[@stephensmith8316]

Yes, Homey? Do do do do do do do do do do do do

[@shanerose7204]

My Top Five Favorite Spielberg Films: 1. Jurassic Park 2. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4. Saving Private Ryan 5. Jaws

[@realplayer54]

I think you know how most will feel about this list.

[@Taverens_Pull]

You misspelt Hook

[@andrewgardner8972]

This is the first movie that Richard Dreyfuss and Teri garr played husband and wife together. The second was let it ride 12 years later after this film. Some would argue that let it ride is an unofficial spiritual sequel to this film.

[@simonster-9094]

"Randy, don't play with your food eat it!"

[@puppylov3808]

Show me how the piggies eat lol

[@Backyardmech1]

You can see that a split lens was used for the side shot of Richard Dreyfus and the kid at about 1:25.

[@TheBrotherHolmes]

And here I thought this was from UHF.

[@oldiesfreek]

Just noticed the boy who played his younger son really did look like him :D

[@jeremyuchihasasuke6666]

How he looks at his sons.....you Kno he loves them

[@yoovie1]

My man reallly likes mashed potatoes

[@lizaestevez6928]

This scene made me almost cry but my dad look and I hold the tears because it a very emotional scene the potatoes and how he Is not himself how he is portayed by his children his wife and all that and he can’t figure out the meaning of the potatoes and that made me cry the first time I saw it

[@languist]

I was brought to this scene by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with John Carpenter as contestant.

[@vilentman111]

i literally remember nothing about this movie except this scene

[@DW-nb2zc]

Weird Al was great too

[@adams1458]

If my dad was that fucked up over it, i'd believe him not mom

[@roberthayes1967]

Adam S .. Yes sir.lmfao

[@ARMEN-wb7ve]

What no gravy savages

[@harikardiak]

You're going Close Encounters crazy, Roy!

[@100mythfreak]

A fire? At a Sea Parks?

[@riproar11]

Who hasn't made a mashed potato gravy volcano? Then breach an area so that the "lava" flows and devastes the village below.

[@vanhouten64]

i used to do this with my mashed potatoes...back in 1977 after seeing this movie...but i was just a kid. Then I would eat the potatoes

[@Gearoidmcnaught]

I think I’ll have some wine.

[@randyrobertson4686]

You must be aware of the shape of a square.

[@libertyprime7911]

This means something. This is important.

[@btbesquire5]

One of the most unintentionally hilarious, yet disturbing scenes in cinema history

[@GizmoBeach]

And thus he was able to scale Devil’s Mountain, because he dabbled in sculpture, not charcoal drawings.

[@singalongwrudy8690]

During the 2024 eclipse I had an undeniable urge to build a mound in my backyard.

[@clintferguson3894]

Leeroy you better eat them taters!

[@retinaofthemindseye]

Spielberg's "Scenes of a Marriage" moment, he never reached those heights of Bergman-like filmmaking again.

[@022171]

"Can somebody please pass the gravy already?"

[@GeorgeSemel]

Dreyfuss was on a real roll then. Then after 1989 he pretty much became MIA for the most part. Every time I look at mash potatoes since I think about ole Richard, and Devils Tower Wyoming. I have gotten old too.

[@sandal_thong8631]

_Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)_ and I just saw him in _Sweetwater (2023)_

[@gotindrachenhart]

You know, nobody ever gets it when I do this with my mashed potatoes now days.....ahh kids these days :)

[@vegetasolo1221]

AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers - #58

[@Meme_Bot_MF]

If that was my dad I would have just been like "Dad just eat your potatoes please"

[@dairymilkbaraddict90]

Not a lot of kids have that courage with their parents lmao

[@DarkGodSeti]

I hope there's mashed potatoes at my next family dinner hahahah!

[@DadeauxSensei]

Dude really chose aliens over Teri Garr. WTF?

[@danielbixel8633]

Yes, if you’re in the military, get yourself a King James copy of the Goat Herder’s Guide to the Galaxy.

[@crist67mustang]

This episode is called *El Puré.* Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica

[@areulostbabygorl5765]

I literally just noticed that’s Richard Dreyfus 🤦‍♀️

[@dominickeefe2454]

'It's a shark'

[@GizmoBeach]

This was not a mashed potatoes accident!

[@rigelmoon9030]

I gotta dead fly in my mashed batatoes.

[@113nightbird]

I always create Devil's Tower in my mashed potatoes because of this movie! It's fun! :)

[@colormedubious4747]

I find meatloaf to be a more appropriate medium for modeling a laccolithic butte. Garnish the plate with a little parsley, and you have the trees at its base.

[@brentchambers511]

One of my favorite scenes in film. True, Richard Dreyfuss is a legendary egomaniacal jackass, but he was good at his job.

[@heyuhh422]

I actually got real hungry when I saw that scene in the theatre…

[@toddgrogg2810]

Mom and dad, tell's you to eat your mashed potatoes, not to make a tower out of your m--potatoes.

[@B52FORTRESS]

Anyone else notice there were 4 boys running in the hall before the teeth brushing scene?

[@keithwilson6060]

At least they were all eating together at the table.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I guess nothing on TV in 1977 at dinner-time. Another video asked whether kids like these really were excited about _The Ten Commandments_ coming on TV, and most said "Yes."

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

I’ve always hated his family because if my dad went through this I’d wanna go with him.

[@jgreico11]

Every time I have mashed potatoes

[@owenmorgan4649]

Damn that mash looks tasty