Why did they pick J?
I mean after the training he didnt shoot the aliens, but the little girl with the Physics book whats up with that?
shareBecause he was right. You don't want an agent who is going to just shoot every alien he sees, because some aliens are here peacefully.
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They needed someone who thought outside the box. Hence the table in the middle of the room. Also they needed someone with great sight and intelligence He saw the books analyzed the situation and acted.
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Because K said so.
He convinced Zed because he was so amazed (which he mentions at various points in the movie in the beginning) that J was able to chase the alien at the beginning down on foot.
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shareEh, he's not "right". So by your standards, if you're walking down the street and see a little girl holding an advanced calculus book, you instantly take her for a villain and shoot her?
I mean seriously, what if she was carrying that book to someone, what if maybe her older college-going sister had forgotten the book somewhere and asked her to bring it, etc. There are like hundreds of reasons why a kid would be carrying such a book, yet J assumes this is a perfect casue to put a bullet in a child's head... At the same time, several suspicious looking characters went by in that simulation shooting, and he didn't even consider targeting any one of them. Yeah, that "test" sure is logical and reasonable...
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Other posters have had good points about why J was picked. He came to K's attention by running down the cephlapoid. He went thru the testing process at MIB and stood out by being willing to move the table instead of trying to write in the egg chair and not shooting aliens who were not creating a threat. Apparently, my opinion about that particular test raised TwoMushrooms' ire.
He's not right by real life standards, see my sig.
But if you want to argue the situation...
J was using logic in a high-stress situation. He was not just blasting away at the "monsters". He did consider targeting each of the monsters, but he saw each of their situations as non-threatening: the tissue indicating sneezing, the one working out on the lamp-post. When he looked at the little girl, the books were a part of his calculation, but not the only factor. He also took into account the setting, situation, and timing. The fact that this 8-year-old White girl was in the ghetto in the middle of the night and the area was populated with monsters makes her the suspicious character. By the movie's logic, it was the right choice. If you're hiring an agent to monitor extra terrestrial life on Earth, you don't want the agent attack the aliens. Plus, it was a good shot.
And, the trivia page agrees.
According to the novelization, J is right to shoot Tiffany, the cardboard cutout on the MIB firing range. She's actually a dangerous alien in disguise, while all of the other aliens around are completely harmless.
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