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Originally posted by damasta747
I was just thinking about this today...
Have you noticed how all aliens tend to look like in their movies. I am not talking about movies like ET the kids film, or Alien Resurrection. I am talking about their normal movies. How they look like etc... Don't their appearance of the aliens in the movies tend to look very much like the ones people try to describe when they saw them? I mean, either it's real or the person has just seen one too many Hollywood films. Has this ever crossed your minds?
Originally posted by damasta747
I was just thinking about this today...
Have you noticed how all aliens tend to look like in their movies. I am not talking about movies like ET the kids film, or Alien Resurrection. I am talking about their normal movies. How they look like etc... Don't their appearance of the aliens in the movies tend to look very much like the ones people try to describe when they saw them? I mean, either it's real or the person has just seen one too many Hollywood films. Has this ever crossed your minds?
Phil Strub, the head of the Pentagon's liaison office, recently revealed this criterion for getting approval for a film as "accurate": "Any film that portrays the military as negative is not realistic to us."
"Apocalypse Now" was viewed as "not realistic" because of negative scenes about Vietnam (and its makers were denied any assistance or access), while the producers of the recent film "Windtalkers" yielded to Pentagon demands for script changes. For example, the original script featured a Marine called "the Dentist" who methodically removed the gold in the mouths of dead Japanese — a practice known to have occurred during World War II. The military objected and the scene was eventually removed, as was a scene of a Marine killing a surrendering Japanese soldier.
Originally posted by xpert11
Hollywood has unknowingly become an ally of the US governments efforts to foster the alien myth. Everytime a green eyed alien appears on the big screen shortly after words people start seeing green eyed aliens and there craft.
this is because people watch the movies then use these ideas to explain dreams, hallucinations etc. Just like when you dream it's usually made up of surreal dreamland versions of places you have been in the past.
Originally posted by Musclor
Movies makers are influenced by real experiences people had, not the opposite.
Originally posted by whitaI'm not trying to knock your statement because I think you are absolutely right. However I would also qualify the statement by saying that in some cases the opposite might be true.
Originally posted by SpookyVince
I must though admit that all these movies and show play a role in the collective unconscious: when something happens, that movie/show comes back from memory and serves as a base for comparison. Because we need something to compare to be able to describe. Describing something totally new is near impossible.
Originally posted by damasta747
mean, either it's real or the person has just seen one too many Hollywood films. Has this ever crossed your minds?
Originally posted by Nygdan
I see absoltuely no reason to think that the various people invlolved in the Special FX industries and movie industries have special knowledge about aliens.
Originally posted by Nygdan
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I see absoltuely no reason to think that the various people invlolved in the Special FX industries and movie industries have special knowledge about aliens.