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6 September 2013
Hollywood's first Men in Black were its most authentic... sorry, Will Smith
By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers
1984 saw the release of The Brother from Another Planet – a low-budget, independent social commentary piece from director John Sayles. In the movie, a UFO crashes near Ellis Island Immigration Centre and its human-looking, black skinned occupant emerges dazed and confused into the strange and unwelcoming landscape of ‘80s New York City – just another lost soul trying to find his way in the world.
We soon learn that The Brother has ESP abilities and, by touching any given object, he can ‘hear’ its history. He also has healing powers like so many other screen aliens of the 1980s. But The Brother from Another Planet is perhaps most notable for being the first film ever to feature the Men in Black of UFO lore. While a number of UFO movies in previous decades had featured besuited government spooks investigating saucer sightings, it was not until The Brother from Another Planet that the Men in Black were depicted precisely as described in UFO literature dating back to the late-1940s. In numerous accounts over the decades, MIBs have been described as being threatening in their intent and almost ‘alien’ in their actions and appearance, often speaking and moving robotically and appearing distinctly out of place in any Earthly environment.
In The Brother from Another Planet, the MIBs (played by John Sayles and David Strathairn) are gaunt, pale-faced figures clad entirely in black whose behaviour is threatening, robotic, and bizarre; and with good reason: they’re aliens – bounty hunters in search of The Brother. In the film’s closing credits they are even credited as “Men in Black.”
Enter the MIBs: David Strathairn and John Sayles in
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
CONTINUE READING: silverscreensaucers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hollywoods-first-men-in-black-were-its.html
ENJOY THE MOVIE:
"THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET"
Published on May 6, 2013
Brother from Another Planet (1984) is a science fiction film written, directed and edited by John Sayles It stars Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial who has escaped to Earth and who hides in Harlem.
Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother", an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet", has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor.
Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. He struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, eventually getting a job at an 80s video arcade in Manhattan.
6 September 2013
Hollywood's first Men in Black were its most authentic... sorry, Will Smith
By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers
1984 saw the release of The Brother from Another Planet – a low-budget, independent social commentary piece from director John Sayles. In the movie, a UFO crashes near Ellis Island Immigration Centre and its human-looking, black skinned occupant emerges dazed and confused into the strange and unwelcoming landscape of ‘80s New York City – just another lost soul trying to find his way in the world.
We soon learn that The Brother has ESP abilities and, by touching any given object, he can ‘hear’ its history. He also has healing powers like so many other screen aliens of the 1980s. But The Brother from Another Planet is perhaps most notable for being the first film ever to feature the Men in Black of UFO lore. While a number of UFO movies in previous decades had featured besuited government spooks investigating saucer sightings, it was not until The Brother from Another Planet that the Men in Black were depicted precisely as described in UFO literature dating back to the late-1940s. In numerous accounts over the decades, MIBs have been described as being threatening in their intent and almost ‘alien’ in their actions and appearance, often speaking and moving robotically and appearing distinctly out of place in any Earthly environment.
In The Brother from Another Planet, the MIBs (played by John Sayles and David Strathairn) are gaunt, pale-faced figures clad entirely in black whose behaviour is threatening, robotic, and bizarre; and with good reason: they’re aliens – bounty hunters in search of The Brother. In the film’s closing credits they are even credited as “Men in Black.”
Enter the MIBs: David Strathairn and John Sayles in
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
CONTINUE READING: silverscreensaucers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/hollywoods-first-men-in-black-were-its.html
ENJOY THE MOVIE:
"THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET"
Published on May 6, 2013
Brother from Another Planet (1984) is a science fiction film written, directed and edited by John Sayles It stars Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial who has escaped to Earth and who hides in Harlem.
Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother", an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet", has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor.
Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. He struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, eventually getting a job at an 80s video arcade in Manhattan.