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①According to costume designer May Routh, because David Bowie is so skinny, some of his suits that look good in the film are actually children's clothes.
②On a certain shooting day, Bowie was physically ill and could not participate in the shooting, so in a certain scene, Thomas Jerome Newton was played by Candy Clark. She cleverly covered her face with a black hat.
③In the filming break, Bowie will use her free time to compose, draw sketches, write short stories, and also make an autobiography project titled "The Return of the Skinny White Duke"-using the 16mm documentary lens given to him by the director Nicholas Roig It was filmed. He also does a lot of reading, such as the biography of Buster Keaton, the master of silent comedy. This is Bowie's preparation for the next biopic of Keaton starring him. [It seems that it did not turn out to be filmed...
④ It is said that Bowie once missed two days of filming because of drinking "deteriorated milk". Bowie saw "a little golden liquid in the glass flowing in a bright vortex. According to the "Bowie Golden Years" website, Bowie is still not sure what happened at that time. Even though six witnesses said they looked at the bottom of the glass. I arrived at the foreign object, but no foreign matter was found in the test. However, Bowie was already in very weak physical condition at that time. He felt that this place was probably not well feng shui and had karma.
⑤The protagonist’s wife on an alien planet was also played by Candy Clark .
⑥ the end of the movie, when Bryce through the video store, there are shelves showcase Bowie's Young Americans album.
⑦Bowie produced the soundtrack for the movie, but has not been adopted. many of his ideas have been used in the He was on the album Low released in 1977.
⑧ After seeing Bowie in the 1975 documentary "Cracked Actor", director Nicholas Royge chose him as the protagonist of the movie. According to Royger, Bowie, an actor born as a singer, never delays progress, and his performance makes others and himself feel very happy.
⑨James Sallis, editor of the "Boston Globe", described the film: As a Christian fable, "The Alien" not only portrays the degeneration of an innocent life, but also addresses the conservatism that grew up with Tevis in the 1950s. , The Cold War and environmental destruction were highly criticized.
⑩Bowie's two albums-Station To Station released in 1976 and Low in 1977-cover both from the film's stills.
⑾The original author Walter Tevis believes that this story implies his autobiography. Three characteristics of his life influenced this film: his childhood was plagued by chronic illnesses, which made him ill in bed; his struggle with alcoholism; and his family moved from downtown San Francisco to rural Kentucky. .
⑿ When filming in the cemetery of an old Azk in the desert of New Mexico, the crew once negotiated with a noisy motorcycle team named "Hell Angels." Because they are stationed near this cemetery.
⒀Director Nicholas Roig has shot many movies starring musicians. They are Performance (1970), starring Mick Jagger; Bad Timing (1980), starring Art Garfunkel, and this part.
⒁In the first scene where Bowie and Candy Clark played together, when the character played by Bowie fainted in her hotel, she didn't really pick up Bowie. The crew used a device with a skateboard and bicycle seat to make the actress appear to be moving around holding Bowie. [Well, Baoye is very skinny, but he shouldn't be that skinny yet= =
⒂Oliver Farnsworth is named after Philo Taylor Farnsworth. He is one of the pioneers in the television industry. In the film, we can see that Thomas Newton is very fascinated by television, which is also the way for people on their planet to understand the earth.
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