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Enemy Mine Movie Review

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr.
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"This science fiction movie is about two enemy fighter pilots who crash land on a barren planet and are forced to work together to survive. Slowly learning one another's trust they become friends and learn more about each other's cultures and language. They eventually realise that they are more alike than they think. As the environment becomes harsher the harder it is to survive, then the Drack pilot (alien) becomes pregnant and dies giving birth, leaving Davidge (Quaid) alone to raise the child. Will Davidge forms a bond with the child and vows to fufil his promise to its parent and get the child home. The action starts off again when human scavengers who use Dracks as slaves capture the child and leave Will for dead. Davidge is rescued eventually by friendly humans who filed him as presumed dead in action. He recovers after being under suspicion for straying to the enemy side, when he speaks their language in a state of delusion from his injuries. Disobeying orders he goes back to the planet to rescue the child. He rescues the child and with help from his friends takes the freed slaves back to their home planet. Here he fufils his vow and initiates the child into the Drackulian society by reciting in their language. A good action film and quite humourous in parts, especially when the two pilots first meet each other and learn each other's language. Also some endearing moments between Davidge and the alien child he has raised as if it was his own."
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 70%




**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - stranded on alien planet, fighting aliens for survival
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - feelings as an alien growing up among humans - search for identity/new understanding - change of heart
Generally friendly 1st contact with aliens? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - military pilot
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - muscular (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - Very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male Alien
Hair color - other weird color
Hair style - bald (man)
Body type - average build (man)
Unclothed? - chest
How much in movie? - 80%

Main Adversary
Identity: - a fight for survival
Profession/status: - slaver
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity - White
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Spaceship setting: - really, really giant spaceship/station - a space station
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - unfriendly aliens - empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside our solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes
Desert? Yes
Ice world? Yes
In Space? - nebula - in spacesuit

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie - upbeat
Comedy or somewhat funny movie? Yes
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
Kinds of F/X - exploding bombs - exploding spaceships - exotic spaceships - exotic aliens - exotic alien landscape
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