Darryl Hannah Question
After she turned into that Green Giant Monster and devoured that soldier, why didn't she look like she gained a ton of weight, when she returned to normal?
shareWithout doubt, that the Monster scene is cool, but I'm guessing that the guy she ate was digested quickly in her monster form and didn't affect her human form's weight at all. I'm actually more suprised to the fact that human Lizzie didn't freak out when she learned that she is now a cannibal.
"Everything happens for a reason"-LOST
This scene has haunted me from the first time I saw this movie for many, many reasons. First off, the man did not really deserve to die, at least not like that. When she first transformed, I was sure she was going to do some stupid "boo!" thing and scare the guards away. Well, after throughing one into a wall panel and electrocuting him, I said to myself, "Uh oh", and sure enough the next man's fait was worse. Seriously, couldn't she have just let him go? No, she had to eat him instead. Being eaten alive, I can imagine, is one of the worst concievable ways to die--You can't see, Can't breath, stomach muscles are crushing every bone in your body; you're being drowned in acid while it disolves the flesh from your bones. Ugh. And was disturbs me about the scene is how it's presented: Lizzy, though in monster form, is clearly still Lizzy in the sense that she still thinks like a human--note the comment about how her alien form looks "good for her hair". Then she simply turns back into a human, smiles almost seductively, and the rest of the movie unfolds with her never acknowledging, nor showing any regret or disgust, for killing two people, one of which she's carrying around in her stomach. She still laughs and giggles despite knowing full well what she did. That disturbs the hell out of me. And this is a disney film, and Lizzy is supposed to be a likeable and sympathetic character...
Further more, I think there is some sort of weird sexual metaphore underlying this scene about female superiority, and maybe one of the writer had a fetish I believe is called "vorism" or something, where they find swallowing erotic...*Shivers*
Anyways, scary-ass scene to be sure.
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Another disturbing thing I notice is that after her monster attack, Lizzie wanted to have ice cream at the end of the film.
Perhaps the writer has a fetish on greedy female green monsters.
"Gods are selfish beings who fly in red capes and refuse to share their powers"-Lex Luther
Maybe. Either way that scene is still so haunting...
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It really disturbed me too. He didn't deserve to die, and she looked normal when she reverted plus there was no acknowledgement of what she's just done.
shareExactly Supa, couldn't have worded it better myself!
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Yeah the guards didn't really need to die,I would have just scared them off.But here's something I don't get,why didn't they show Lizzie change into the creature in the first place,and why didn't they show her changing back?
shareThey did show her change back, though you are right in that we don't see her "become" the creature. I think that was for suspense purposes perhaps?
If you notice she seems very happy with herself after she kills the guards and slides down a ramp with schoolgirl-ish enthusiasm, which I guess (and I hate to give the writers any credit whatsoever with this film) is foreshadowed earlier in the film when she leaves Tim's house and slides down a rail in a very similar way. I guess that's as deep a character nuance as the writers could think of!
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Unfortunately, this scene was one of my favorites. I agree that it probably wasn't good for a family movie, but I thought it was good the way they showed how the monster took over her basic instincts and left her personality. And how she killed the gaurds after they refused to run, to save Tim and Martin. Excellent scene.
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Oh okay but They only showed her with green skin and that was it. I don't get why they didn't show her face and all that change back to normal,but hey it's a Disney movie. Plus the movie industry is very censored when it comes to girls changing into stuff on t.v (i.e Gwen in episode Gwen 10)
shareActually...
They had mortally wounded Zoot and rather than battling like sane yet lawful individuals doing their duty they battled like vicious brutes doing their duty just for the sake of physical abuse... In the short scene they stared they were not sympathetic at all but all the way around... Rather than serving as believable examples of military (but human) staff of an organization dedicated to neutral (maybe even favourable and curious) investigation of intelligent alien lifeforms and the possibility of their existace it seemed their role was more like your typical evil hencheman of an evil organization bent on some evil ideals (metaxenophobia/alienophobia in this case)...
Luckily it seemed Zoot had regenerative abilities which he could activate by coming into contact with "Uncle Martin"'s body and which would work on him to. Furthermore... Besides her... How many folk new what she did? I mean... I can't remember if Tim saw her eat the guy.
EDIT: About the transformation not showing her earn weight when she is back to human form... It might be that the same way the transformation can add mater (as it would be a requirement to give her such a huge shape) it can also, when it ends, take it away (taking away the undigested corpse of the being)... Remember we are dealing with fictional technology beyond our comprehension...
What really disturbs is the poetic justice against the leading doctor who is brought to Seti as an alien for a fate worse than death and which, quite obviously, he had not been able to impose upon anyone (as the former alien was not trapped by him but lived, quite coincidentally, with another Tim O'hara in the 60s whose landlord was another Lorelei and whose work, as the later homonym, was that of a news man.