Film Clips for Ling 057 'Language and Popular
Culture'
Men in Black:
H. Schiffman, Instructor
- Tommy Lee Jones on
border patrol: intercepts a truckload of illegal aliens from south of the
border, one of whom is an alien from outer space. TLJ almost arrests the
alien ("Mikey"), but then he/it pulls a fast one, and they have to blow
him/it away.
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Edgar, a farmer living in upstate New York, meets some aliens whose
spaceship has landed on his farm, and gets consumed by one of them.
- At
the arrival hall of the alien immigration center, Tommy Lee Jones
introduces Will Smith to the way things work there.
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Coffee room at the alien immigration center where Will Smith meets some
'cute' aliens.
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Men in Black arrive at pawnshop, where Smith discovers that things
aren't as they seem to be.
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Meanwhile, Edgar arrives in New York and heads for the Pawnshop.
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Aliens eat pirogi and discuss how to save the universe. Edgar,
pretending to be a waiter, intervenes, kills the two aliens, steals what he
thinks is the galaxy, and goes off. (The cat, Orion, still has the galaxy
around his neck!)
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Will Smith visits the morgue, discovers that one of the corpses
isn't a real dead body.
- Edgar asks somebody where they 'keep the dead people', and
then Edgar heads for the Morgue.
- Men
in Black drive to Queens to meet the alien and exterminate him (it).