Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!sun!falk From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: Brother from Another Planet (SPOILER) Message-ID: <3305@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 17:17:21 EST Article-I.D.: sun.3305 Posted: Sat Mar 1 17:17:21 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Mar-86 10:55:56 EST References: <1427@decwrl.DEC.COM> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 12 > > In a very short interplay with one member of the crowd, the alien points his > thumb upward as if to say, "Are you going back?" The other person (assumed > to be alien) points his thumb down, and shakes his head "no". For me, this > was the clincher which said, 'Oh, they must be aliens, too!' This made the > whole scene fall into place. > Hmmm... I thought the thumbs-up/thumbs-down exchange meant "did they go back where they came from?" "no, they went to hell". -ed falk, sun microsystems