Word: alien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alien from another planet had the task of choosing an earthling to take into its spaceship--let's say it wanted to find out whether a particular bodily fluid might be effective on the other planet in cleaning windshields without leaving streaks--it would obviously look for someone open to believing in its existence, rather than someone who dismissed extraterrestrial visitors as the figment of someone else's imagination...
Otherwise, when the alien said, "Come with us into our spaceship," the earthling might just say, "Buzz off, figment," and go on about his business, leaving the extraterrestrial just standing there, truly embarrassed...
Think of what would happen, for instance, if an alien from another planet approached Pat Buchanan with abduction in mind. After all, Pat Buchanan believes that all aliens are from another planet...
Reporters shout out questions: "How do you know the alien's name was Epstein, Pat? Did he talk? Do all extraterrestrials have Jewish names...
This is, or was, a true story, but invested as it is with relentlessly cliched emotions, it plays like cheap fiction. What a sometime visionary like Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) is doing mixed up with it is hard to fathom. Or maybe it isn't. In today's cautious Hollywood, a seasick Dead Poets Society probably looks daring...