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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: BB questions
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 16:15:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 16:15:29 1985
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> >I finally got around to seeing Buckaroo Banzai last friday. There
> >were a few questions that sorta stuck in my mind, and i was hoping
> >that someone more familiar with the movie could explain them to me.
> >	(1) What was the thing that BB found under the car after
> >	    zipping through the mountain?
> Apparently just some sort of random lifeform. I though I saw one of the 
> Red Lectroids carrying one around just before it shot one of the spiders
> at one of BB's men, so perhaps that's where they come from.
> -- 
> 	James Steven Carrington
> 	UC Berkeley
> 	jsc@ucbingres.arpa
> 	ucbvax!jsc

Actually, the Red Lectroid had the "thing from under the car" because
they were trying to get rid of any evidence of their existence as well as
stealing the Overthruster.

But then, they left behind the spider-things, so stealing the thing-from
-under-the-car was not too smart.  But then again, they ARE Red Lectroids!



> Red Lectroids carrying one around just before it shot one of the spiders
> at one of BB's men, so perhaps that's where they come from.
> >	(2) What was PP trying to do with the gun, and what did
> >	    the scene in the jail really mean?
> She was trying to kill herself. The bit in the jail is when Buckaroo realizes
> that PP is the twin sister of his wife, who {disappeared,died,???}.
> -- 
> 	James Steven Carrington
> 	UC Berkeley
> 	jsc@ucbingres.arpa
> 	ucbvax!jsc

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