I saw EO about 25 times on its first run in EPCOT and twice on its current run. Over the years, I've had many deep thoughts and questions concerning this 17-18 minute masterpiece (in all seriousness, I love the movie and have HUGE nostalgic feelings towards it). Anyhoo, let us commence....
So…we learn in the intro that Captain EO is infamous. Why is that? The corps he and his “crew” are in are clearly supposed to be some kind of good group that is spreading pleasantry and happiness throughout the universe using the powers of music, dance, and shirt rainbows. I think it might be because he creates an artificial glut of professional dancers with his magical happy powers. After he leaves there can’t be enough big time shows for all these folks. I’d have to say more than a few are working dinner theatres in their planets’ version of BFE.
The trench scene is stolen directly from Star Wars. Plus, the all city planet is more than a little reminiscent of the Star of Deathness.
Why does this corps employ aliens that don’t meet the minimum height requirement with respect to the reaching of instruments? If Hooter can’t reach it, Hooter can’t be in the corps. Speaking of Hooter, how could he possibly eat the map? I mean a lot of sci-fi water is under the bridge by the mid-80s and no one and I mean no one has characters using paper maps on their imagined high tech spaceships. Also, how does the food that Hooter throws actually slide down the face of Captain EO’s superior officer? He is very clearly a holographic image that has phoned in. And who made the decision to put a plastic fried egg on Captain EO’s shoulder after the crash?
Speaking of the corps – kind of corps is this? Could you imagine if any country on the planet earth sent in a troop of professional singers and dancers to sway the hearts of minds of enemies. My guess is that we haven’t yet developed the magical happy dancing ray.
Once the singing and dancing start everything that happens makes perfect sense and is completely cool with one exception – We’re supposed to assume that the Captain EO magical dance rays are turning the creatures on the planet into more beautiful beings (i.e. pretty humans). However, I very much doubt their standards for beauty are the same as ours.My guess is that many of them are already hotties. Further, even if Queen Angelica Houston is evil, why would she pick a makeup and nail job that would be considered ugly in her native world? Plus, if we suppose that the magical beauty beams do make everyone prettier, there are clearly two guards in the last scene, dancing around that are still uglified. They’ll have a lot of trouble getting dates now that everyone on the planet is a professional dancer.
If someone could explain these things to me, I’d be very appreciative. :lookaroun
So…we learn in the intro that Captain EO is infamous. Why is that? The corps he and his “crew” are in are clearly supposed to be some kind of good group that is spreading pleasantry and happiness throughout the universe using the powers of music, dance, and shirt rainbows. I think it might be because he creates an artificial glut of professional dancers with his magical happy powers. After he leaves there can’t be enough big time shows for all these folks. I’d have to say more than a few are working dinner theatres in their planets’ version of BFE.
The trench scene is stolen directly from Star Wars. Plus, the all city planet is more than a little reminiscent of the Star of Deathness.
Why does this corps employ aliens that don’t meet the minimum height requirement with respect to the reaching of instruments? If Hooter can’t reach it, Hooter can’t be in the corps. Speaking of Hooter, how could he possibly eat the map? I mean a lot of sci-fi water is under the bridge by the mid-80s and no one and I mean no one has characters using paper maps on their imagined high tech spaceships. Also, how does the food that Hooter throws actually slide down the face of Captain EO’s superior officer? He is very clearly a holographic image that has phoned in. And who made the decision to put a plastic fried egg on Captain EO’s shoulder after the crash?
Speaking of the corps – kind of corps is this? Could you imagine if any country on the planet earth sent in a troop of professional singers and dancers to sway the hearts of minds of enemies. My guess is that we haven’t yet developed the magical happy dancing ray.
Once the singing and dancing start everything that happens makes perfect sense and is completely cool with one exception – We’re supposed to assume that the Captain EO magical dance rays are turning the creatures on the planet into more beautiful beings (i.e. pretty humans). However, I very much doubt their standards for beauty are the same as ours.My guess is that many of them are already hotties. Further, even if Queen Angelica Houston is evil, why would she pick a makeup and nail job that would be considered ugly in her native world? Plus, if we suppose that the magical beauty beams do make everyone prettier, there are clearly two guards in the last scene, dancing around that are still uglified. They’ll have a lot of trouble getting dates now that everyone on the planet is a professional dancer.
If someone could explain these things to me, I’d be very appreciative. :lookaroun
