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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BB questions (Buckaroo Banzai)
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 11:15:11 EDT
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In article <31600012@ISM780.UUCP> chris@ISM780.UUCP asks:
>	(1) What was the thing that BB found under the car after
>	    zipping through the mountain?

It's described as a "curiously shaped parasite", is obviously alive, and
not obviously related to any life form in our ordinary plane of experience.
Plotwise, it serves as tangible proof that B. Banzai actually went somewhere
other than just into a mountain and out again.

>	(2) What was PP trying to do with the gun, and what did
>	    the scene in the jail really mean?

She was trying to commit suicide -- she had it aimed at her head when the
waitress bumped her elbow and it went off.  In the jail Buckaroo realizes
that she's the twin sister of his late (?) wife.  The "(?)" is a potential
spoiler to hoped-for sequels to the novel _Buckaroo Banzai_.  I assume
that's what you're asking about the jail scene?

>	(3) Were all the Hong Kong Cavaliers supposed to look like
>	    rock stars? Perfect Tommy looked like Billy Idol, and
>	    the guy who died of the spider bite looked like Bruce
>	    Springsteen.

I don't think they were supposed to look like particular rock stars, although
of course they are themselves rock stars (you mean you haven't heard of the
famous H. K. Cavaliers??).  Somebody told me he though B. Banzai resembled
Adam Ant, if you want more examples.  Also Pinky Carruthers, one of the
guitar players, was played by Billy Vera, who has his own band, "Billy
and the Beaters".
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	Jim Gillogly
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