Is there an explanation somewhere in the movie, why does he say that? If not, what are the theories? And what was the screenwriter's thought process behind the line, most importantly??
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My guess is because he's there to get the "drugs" from our brains. He's not really there for war, invasion or anything like that. As my brother told me years ago when I asked the same question: "It's nothing personal, just business". Although it sucked for us humans!
shareThere was some 'personal' though, as Angel did enjoy the process (he smiled while doing it). Then again, you could argue smiling means something else on their planet, LOL.
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Good point! I forgot about him smiling. Maybe it's because he knows he's going to rich. :) Then again though that could still be taken as not personal, just business. He's getting rich at the humans expense, but what does he care? He's just there to do his drug run. Another theory is he just repeats it because he's heard it over and over and it's the only thing he knows how to say in our language. He doesn't really know what it means. Those are the two ideas I've always thought of.
shareI like your second idea. He maybe similar to Predator - repeats the things he's heard before.
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Except for the fact that he says 'I win' at the end with a big smile on his face and he clearly knew what it meant.
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But Predator also knew that playing the laugh track was hella smug.
I guess they're supposed to be observing people's emotions when they say stuff.
P.S. Cool ava.
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But Predator also knew that playing the laugh track was hella smug.
I guess they're supposed to be observing people's emotions when they say stuff.
Or maybe we're just diggin too much into this cheeeessy flick.
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I think the reason that he says that is the screenwriter thought it would be cool if the bad alien kept repeating "I come in peace", even if it doesn't make sense at all. And it also makes for a cool scene just before the bad alien gets blown to pieces by Dolph Lundgreen, where he says "I come in peace", and dolph says: "and you go in pieces" and shoots him.
shareI believe the phrase "I come in peace" is an homage to the 1950s movie War of the Worlds, where the aliens say that to humans.
share"I believe the phrase "I come in peace" is an homage to the 1950s movie War of the Worlds, where the aliens say that to humans."
No, the Martians never say that to the humans. The Martians never say anything to the humans; they just kill them.
I believe you may have mixed up your Martian movies. 😃
In the movie Mars Attacks the Martians are running after humans and killing them while the translator says, 'We come in peace.....we come in peace'.
Snakes....I hate snakes
"I Come In Peace" was the original working title for the film. In some regions the VHS still has it as the title on the box cover. It's just an old nod to the title in the style that they used to include them in cheezy B 80s movies.
shareThat was the title back when I bought the video.
I tought it was meant to be ironic because in old TV/movies the Earthlings always said it to whoever they met.
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I thought he said it because it is supposed to put us humans at ease. That is why he smiles, trying to act friendly. Then you put your guard down and bang your dead.
shareThis is what I thought too. Just a phrase to put people at ease before he annihilates them.
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According to IMDb's Trivia page:
The project was initially titled "Lethal Contact" (as it was first written in 1984 as a spec script by Jonathan Tydor). The production, filming and international title is "Dark Angel", and was released as such worldwide, before it was changed to "I Come in Peace" for the late U.S. release, because of two other existing movies entitled "The Dark Angel" (from 1925 and 1935).share
It was actually released as "I Come In Peace" when it played in theaters here.
shareIt's a cliche from 50s science fiction, both on film and in print. Aliens land on Earth, and they say, "We come in peace". A similar cliche is "Take me to your leader." However, I think it's apocryphal, like "Beam me up, Scotty," that is, I don't think you'll find this specific quote anywhere.
It has nothing to do with bringing peace through heroin.
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."
I've just started thinking... that the whole phrase was tacked on JUST so Lungren could say in the end "... and you'll go in pieces" (or however he says it).
Not viable?
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I think the alien's use of the phrase was based on the idea that an alien civilization will first learn of us through an ever-expanding sphere of electromagnetic transmissions, centered on Earth. I recall Carl Sagan making this point in one of his books, but he wasn't the first person to point it out. Right now, an observer some 60 light-years out from Earth or so, might be picking up "The Honeymooners", or "I Love Lucy", or some sci-fi movie where an alien lands on Earth and declares, "People of Earth! I come in peace!"
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."
i think this phrase used by alien only to fool people and make them disoriented. hes a just a drug dealer. He leaned that phrase from his cosmic dictionary,he is not a professor and dont want to learn english, it just to easy kill people. "I come in peace -mmmm???- you are dead."
shareThe only reason he uses the phrase is so Dolph can say "And you go in pieces *beep* While blowing him to hell!!
shareWell, as someone traveling to another foreign non-English speaking country or vice versa, you'd bother to learn or know the most basic of conversational phrases. Obviously the second "alien" was a little more studious and applied himself.
"Sorry. If I've not responded to you either it wasn't necessary or I've set you to Ignore."