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kingshitdave:

Currently watching The Man Who Fell to Earth. David Bowie rules, I wanna listen to the album Low now. Perfect role for him too, (I believe hes an alien in real life)

Thomas Jerome Newton: The strange thing about television is that it doesn’t *tell* you everything. It *shows* you everything about life for nothing, but the true mysteries remain. Perhaps it’s in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

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The character Oliver Farnsworth is named after Philo Taylor Farnsworth, one of the most important pioneers of television. As may be seen in the film, Thomas Newton has an obsession with television, which is how his people learned about Earth.

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Roeg’s films are known for having scenes and images from the plot presented in a disarranged fashion, out of chronological and causal order, requiring the viewer to do the work of mentally rearranging them to comprehend the storyline. They seem, “to shatter reality into a thousand pieces” and are “unpredictable, fascinating, cryptic and liable to leave you wondering what the hell just happened… .”

Roeg displays a “freedom from conventional film narration,” and his films often consist of an “intriguing kaleidoscopic multiplication of images.”

A characteristic of Roeg’s films is that they are edited in disjunctive and semi-coherent ways that make full sense only in the film’s final moments, when a crucial piece of information surfaces; they are “mosaic-like montages [filled with] elliptical details which become very important later.” These techniques, and Roeg’s foreboding sense of atmosphere, have influenced later filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh,Tony Scott,Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, François Ozon and Danny Boyle.