Interesting, I thought the Hays Code remained in place until being swept away by the MPAA in 1968. Or perhaps it was just simply called the Hays Code colloquially even though it was technically the Motion Picture Production Code?

With E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, I think the resurrection narrative works very well for three main reasons: 1) I consider E.T. a modern fairy tale rather than a science fiction film, and in that context, it makes perfect poetic sense for science and technology to be unable to restore ET, but for Elliot’s love to bring him back just as his spacecraft is contacted. 2) E.T. has an absolute plethora of Christ allegories — coming down to Earth, helping those in need, performing miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension. 3) The death/resurrection of ET is also foreshadowed in the scene where Mary reads Gertie the scene in Peter Pan where Tinkerbell dies and comes back to life because children believe in fairys, etc, etc.

Thank you very much for reading and commenting. :)