The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (OT: The Man Who Fell to Earth ). . Is a British science fiction film from 1976 is based on the novel by Walter Tevis 's 1963 film was directed by Nicolas Roeg, the main role was played by David Bowie.

Action

The film tells the melancholy story of a humanoid - reptilian aliens with the earthly alias Thomas Jerome Newton ( Bowie ) including camouflage as a person. Newton "falls" to the ground to find water for his desert planet and founded by several basic patents, the company World Enterprises, a high-tech enterprise billion to build a return spacecraft can.

Thanks to its refined intelligence that enables him empathic and telepathic insights, he studied the complex road to power and apply them optimally.

On his expedition deep into the American Way of Success he follows the love of the small town resident Mary- Lou and breaks finally at the recklessness, superficiality, fast pace and brutality of human civilization as well as to his own attempt to fit into a schema. Blinded, cynical, unmasked, abused, locked up and disillusioned ends Newton as one among many inhabitants of the earth, an alien that has lost its roots and its capabilities.

Background

The film holds some small background information for detail -obsessed ready: so, about the desert scenes near Roswell, NM, rotated; an allusion to the so-called Roswell incident, which has been reported in July 1947 in the U.S. media as " UFO crash ".

The nature of the basic patents Newton plays a roundabout way to it: 1947 was the legendary Polaroid Landcam put on the market and consequently the first patents Newton are a particular instant camera and special glasses with polarizing lenses. The name of the patent attorney Oliver Farnsworth appears as an allusion to Philo Farnsworth (main inventor of television ), because Newton developed a special love-hate relationship to this medium. One of the first business partner Newton, the promiscuous college professor Nathan Bryce, is played by Rip Torn, who " in Black Men " held the role of Chief Agent Zed in the comic book movie; maybe you had remembered in Hollywood to its previous " contacts " for Alien Bowie.

Reviews

  • Encyclopedia of the International film: Willful science fiction film with a plethora of ideas, using his unusual cinematic techniques with great skill. A thought-provoking story about the lack of the individual in a society of consumerism and corporations.
  • The time 1976: Roeg plays not only a virtuoso with utopias of the space age, but thinks developments of our Western economic and social order - consistently terrible to end. His film is a depressing parable about stardom and an emphatic plea for fruitful freedom to be abnormal.

Awards

  • Best Actor: David Bowie
  • Nominated: Best sci-fi film
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