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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Roll-your-own (Alien characters in films)
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Date: Sat, 12-May-84 23:16:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 12 23:16:16 1984
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> From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
> 
> ... In particular I think that there has been no real portrayal of
> aliens as complete characters in the movies....  You are free
> to claim that Chmeee and Phssthpok are flat compared to, say, human
> characters in Casablanca or GWTW, but the competition in sf films is with
> the likes of Chewbacca and E.T. (Who knows what the hell they're thinking
> about?), Yoda (of the one-track mind), or the Blob.
> 
> Any counter-examples?

Why, OF COURSE.  The best-developed character in all of the realm of science
fiction -- from the original concept, through 79 TV episodes and reams of
further material, culminating in three movies.  Spock, of the planet Vulcan.

Okay, he's only half alien.  Then again, Phssthpok (is that spelled right?)
is also of the same blood as humans.
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