Talk:The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)

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Contents 1 The strange man 2 Fascination with Television 3 Inventions 4 2007 movie 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Felltoearthcover.jpg

[edit] The strange man

There is an opening scene of a man in a business suit who appears at Newton's crash site at the start of the film. I always thought he might be a government agent. Any ideas? -Pahuskahey 13:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fascination with Television

Though the article implies that Newton's fascination with television is a debilitating obsession I have to disagree. Newton explains the Anthean's mastery of English in that they (the Antheans) have been monitoring earth's broadcasts for years. In fact Newton's mastery of English, American customs, knowledge of pawn shops (so he can pawn numerous wedding bands) and his disguise all indicate an advanced knowledge of America; his destination from Anthea. This also helps explain his recording. Had the album gotten air-time his messages would have been broadcast and picked up by his people. William (Bill) Bean 18:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inventions

It would be interesting to look at some of the inventions in the film and compare them with subsequently accomplishment of the same features in reality. For example, wasn't there something about a disposable camera? Cranky1000 19:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 movie

The IMDB page now says (2009) instead of 2007 after the title. Has the release date for the remake been moved? I can't seem to find any news about it. Should references to 2007 in the article be updated to 2009? Drewivan (talk) 00:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Felltoearthcover.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)