{"id":158187,"date":"2021-01-19T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","slug":"flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Flight of the Navigator Revisited \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41df419c6bb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41df419c6bb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film\/#The_Pitch\" >The Pitch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film\/#The_Movie\" >The Movie<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flight-of-the-navigator-revisited-film\/#The_Legacy\" >The Legacy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Flight of the Navigator Revisited \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-653801 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Flight-of-the-Navigator-1-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flight of the Navigator Revisited\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Flight-of-the-Navigator-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Flight-of-the-Navigator-1-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>(Welcome to\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/slashfilm.com\/tag\/out-of-the-disney-vault\">Out of the Disney Vault<\/a><\/strong>, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before Disney was known for its corporate synergy and obsession with remaking old animated classics, they actually took a lot of bold chances, especially in the \u201970s and \u201980s. And especially when it came to sci-fi, fantasy and horror films. Sadly, few of these were successful at the box office, though some managed to become cult hits once they hit home video. One such film is <\/span><b><i>Flight of the Navigator<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of many films about kids befriending alien beings that arrived in the wake of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E.T.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a rare Disney film that knows when to take its sweet time and build up character and atmosphere. It also explores a relatively dark and, frankly, messed-up story, all before evolving into the whimsical sci-fi adventure film the title and poster promise. <\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let\u2019s go back to the \u201980s and explore the tale of a kid who befriended a sentient spaceship.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Pitch\"><\/span><b>The Pitch<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brainchild of a small Norwegian film company called Viking Film, and genre film production company Producers Sales Organization, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <em>technically<\/em> not a Disney production, as PSO <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roached Disney to buy the distribution rights for the film\u2019s North American release. The film follows a 12-year-old Florida boy named David who goes missing in 1978, and reappears eight years later. He hasn\u2019t aged a day, and thinks he\u2019s only been gone a few hours. Of course, NASA scientists are thrilled because they think he is connected to the shiny and reflective UFO that just crash-landed nearby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film is directed by one Randal Kleiser, who you might recognize as the man behind <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grease<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Blue Lagoon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honey, I Blew Up the Kid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/flight-of-the-navigator-interview-with-director-randal-kleiser\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to Kleiser, he always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, despite having no experience with the genre. And here\u2019s some fun trivia:\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is initially set in 1978, the year <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grease <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">came out, and you can year \u201cYou\u2019re The One That I Want\u201d playing on the radio as the family drives around early in the film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though perhaps not as revolutionary as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tron<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a couple of years earlier, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">still features some impressive early CGI when it came to the spaceship. The director\u2019s brother, Jeff Kleiser, was in charge of creating the ship, which he decided should be chrome, always reflecting the environment around the ship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Movie\"><\/span><b>The Movie<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most interesting thing about watching this film in 2021 is how little it actually feels like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E.T.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> despite the poster and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> premise suggesting otherwise. In truth, it\u2019s the reverse of Steven Spielberg\u2019s film: the alien is trying to help the young boy get home. Hoewver, it\u2019s everything that comes before that part of the film that makes this fascinating and unlike most of its contemporaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the film\u2019s runtime is just a brisk 90 minutes, we don\u2019t really get to the spaceship stuff until over halfway through the story. Instead, most of it is devoted to the mystery of what happened to this young boy, who disappeared for eight years and came back without aging a day. And rather than making it a funny fish-out-of-water story that just focuses on all the different pop culture \u2014 though we do get some of it, like the kid being shocked over the existence of MTV \u2014 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">treats its story with a kind of seriousness and somberness you\u2019d find in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Leftovers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not a Disney film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note the scene where David going back to his former house and finding strangers inside, while the camera closes in on his shock as we see him scared and crying. And then there\u2019s David meeting his now-older parents and his younger brother, who is now older than him. These scenes are treated with emotional gravitas and complexity, without jokes or interruptions. There\u2019s a scene where David\u2019s brother tells him how his parents made him put up \u201cMissing\u201d posters of his brother all over the city every Saturday for years after he disappeared, and how he\u2019s always blamed himself because he pulled a prank on David before he vanished. Even the moments where David is confronted with pop culture he\u2019s not familiar with, and hearing that his favorite show, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starsky &amp; Hutch <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was canceled, isn\u2019t done for laughs. It\u2019s treated as a serious thing. David did not run away from home, he\u2019s not an orphan, or even a kid with a destiny. He\u2019s just an average boy who finds himself in a terrifying situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E.T., <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which clearly paints the government in a bad light, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doesn\u2019t have a traditional villain. Sure, there\u2019s the NASA scientists who are would rather keep David for a few more days rather than fulfill their promise to his dad and drive him home. But the film never treats them as anything but reasonable scientists who are genuinely concerned about David\u2019s wellbeing\u2026and the fact that his head is now filled with random alien maps and graphics. They want answers, but they are not about to put the kid in harm\u2019s way or experiment on him. They are just as scared as David is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when David stumbles upon the alien spaceship and its sentient computer starts speaking like Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens voices the computer), it\u2019s a miracle the film doesn\u2019t collapse under its own weight. This is the whimsical and uplifting sci-fi adventure film you\u2019d expect <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be, and it genuinely works. It helps because we spend so much time with David feeling like an alien in his hometown, so when he finds an actual alien who doesn\u2019t treat him any differently, <em>of course<\/em> he opens up and becomes friends with it. It helps that the spaceship itself holds up as a set after so many years. The interior design is entirely chrome, a distinct look from other movie spaceships, and the practical-yet-alien aesthetic of the ship makes it somehow feel more real.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Legacy\"><\/span><b>The Legacy<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most of Disney\u2019s live-action genre <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> of the late \u201970s and \u201980s, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wasn\u2019t a hit. It certainly didn\u2019t help that it came out the same weekend as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Howard the Duck<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and at a time when\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aliens <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was obliterating the box office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite less than stellar box office earnings, there have been talks of a remake since 2009. In 2012 it was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Colin Trevorrow would rewrite the script and possibly direct. In 2017 it was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that Lionsgate (who owns the Producers Sales Organization library) and The Henson Company, rather than Disney, were producing a reboot with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucifer <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">showrunner Joe Henderson writing the script. Now that Disney is fully in remake mode, why not give <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flight of the Navigator <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">another shot? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, you can watch this film on Disney+ and decide for yourself if a remake is even necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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