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Fire in the Sky

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Fire in the Sky	label	Fire in the Sky
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Fire in the Sky	comment	Fire in the Sky is a 1993 science fiction/mystery film directed by Robert Lieberman, centered around a UFO abduction.The film is based on the alleged 1975 abduction of Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney), a logger from Snowflake, Arizona who went missing for five days after his co-workers claimed he was zapped by a flying saucer. The plot of the film centers mainly around the ensuing investigation and manhunt that took place, headed on-screen by the fictional Detective Frank Watters (James Garner), as well as the drama in which Walton's co-workers, including his best friend Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick), are accused of murder by their families and neighbors. Only the climax of the film (which was dramatically changed from the real Walton's story) focuses on Walton's experiences onboard the UFO.Not to be confused with A Fire In The Sky, the 1978 TV Movie about a comet impacting the Earth.
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Fire in the Sky / int_1116591	type	Best Friends-in-Law
Fire in the Sky / int_1116591	comment	Best Friends-in-Law: Played With because Travis and Dana get married while he and Mike are estranged, but they reconcile by the end.
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Fire in the Sky / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Fire in the Sky / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The first and third acts are sci-fi, but the middle is mostly a cross between Police Procedural and small-town drama.
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Fire in the Sky / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
Fire in the Sky / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: Subverted. When Travis first sees the slumbering aliens on board their ship, at first they look like this (grey all over, naked, large heads, huge black eyes, tiny mouths) but it turns out that those are just their suits. The actual aliens look a bit different, having slightly more humanoid faces and round heads with a beige skin tone.
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Fire in the Sky / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Fire in the Sky / int_1f6983f7	comment	Additionally, the mutilated man he finds in the other cocoon seems barely sentient and it's hard to tell if he's being moved by Travis' panicking trashing or is actually trying to lean towards him.
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Fire in the Sky / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Fire in the Sky / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The real Travis Walton believes that the aliens were actually healing him after he had been severely injured by their craft's engines. In the movie they just torture him some more.
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Fire in the Sky / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Fire in the Sky / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Lt. Walters initially addresses him self as from the Arizona Criminal Investigation Division. However at the end it's revealed he's actually from Montana. Montana was the alleged location of the Air Force's Project Bluebook, a catch all term for its investigative efforts related to UFO's. In other words the movie is suggesting that Lt. Walters was one of The Men in Black, sent to oversee and shift public attention away from the abduction story. This is actually referenced throughout when he suppress the polygraph test results, and continued to present the theory The Loggers killed Travis, even though the polygraph exonerated the loggers. Additionally, you can see a look of pure frustration on Walters face when Cy discusses the results of the test. note Granted the polygraph test is just a glorified heart monitor real life. However, at the time and within the movie it is treated as infallible. It also explains why Sheriff Davis is so intimidated by Walters, refusing to stick up for the group when Walters was questioning them; even though he does so against everyone else in the film. Thankfully for all parties, everyone buys the hoax theory so Lt. Walters decides cover-up isn't necessary and simply leaves, vowing to return in they slip up.
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Fire in the Sky / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
Fire in the Sky / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: Though you might want to note that humans do the same things we saw the aliens do to other living beings out of science.
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Fire in the Sky / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Fire in the Sky / int_3e8c87a3	comment	This is actually referenced throughout when he suppress the polygraph test results, and continued to present the theory The Loggers killed Travis, even though the polygraph exonerated the loggers. Additionally, you can see a look of pure frustration on Walters face when Cy discusses the results of the test. note Granted the polygraph test is just a glorified heart monitor real life. However, at the time and within the movie it is treated as infallible. It also explains why Sheriff Davis is so intimidated by Walters, refusing to stick up for the group when Walters was questioning them; even though he does so against everyone else in the film. Thankfully for all parties, everyone buys the hoax theory so Lt. Walters decides cover-up isn't necessary and simply leaves, vowing to return in they slip up.
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Fire in the Sky / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Fire in the Sky / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Travis is left traumatized by his abduction, Mike's life is ruined, and it's widely believed the loggers' story was a hoax. However, Travis does recover to an extent and marries Dana, and he and Mike reconcile.
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Fire in the Sky / int_47f5fe7d	type	Inscrutable Aliens
Fire in the Sky / int_47f5fe7d	comment	Inscrutable Aliens: Whatever the Aliens are truly after, no explanation is given. Sometimes they take people and let them die on their ship, sometimes they return them with only severe psychological damage.
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Fire in the Sky / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Fire in the Sky / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Travis starts off as an optimistic Keet. After he's returned, he's left a joyless shell of his former self.
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Fire in the Sky / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Fire in the Sky / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The experiments Travis is subjected to by the aliens are nothing short of violation. Tubes are shoved down his throat, his jaw is violently clamped open, a sharp device is shoved into his neck, and he is forced to endure an ocular probe. Suffice it to say, there's a reason why many call this scene one of the scariest ever put to film.
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Fire in the Sky / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Fire in the Sky / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Most of the first act consists of Travis' friends recounting what happened; and then, near the end, Travis' flashback of what actually happened on the alien ship.
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Fire in the Sky / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Fire in the Sky / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: Parts of the ship look more like a beehive than a technological space craft.
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Fire in the Sky / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Fire in the Sky / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Travis has two, before and after his abduction. The first has him arrive at Mike's house to say hello to Mike, his family, and his sister Dana, with whom he is in a relationship, which quickly establishes him as an optimistic, kindhearted Keet. The second has him sitting alone in a car, traumatized and lacking all of his former energy, but still signing an autograph for a kid despite his obvious discomfort, showing that he's retained his kindness.
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Fire in the Sky / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
Fire in the Sky / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural: The real focus of the film is not the abduction but the police investigation.
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Fire in the Sky / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Fire in the Sky / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: After Travis escapes from his cocoon aboard the alien ship, he ends up entering another cocoon and finds a badly decomposed human inside, much to his visible terror.
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Fire in the Sky / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Fire in the Sky / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The aliens.
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Fire in the Sky / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Fire in the Sky / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: Naturally since the plot is about Travis Walton's abduction.
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Fire in the Sky / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Fire in the Sky / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Travis' flashback ends with a needle approaching his eye at an agonizingly slow pace.
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Fire in the Sky / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Fire in the Sky / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Travis while going through a painful autopsy performed on him by the aliens screams out of fear and pain. The aliens get tired of his screaming and shove a tar-like substance down his throat. Additionally, the mutilated man he finds in the other cocoon seems barely sentient and it's hard to tell if he's being moved by Travis' panicking trashing or is actually trying to lean towards him.
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Fire in the Sky / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Fire in the Sky / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last few scenes are set 2-3 years after the abduction. The movie also ends with the note of what happened to the Real Life versions of Travis and Mike, and notes that they and Dallis later took another lie detector test and all passed.note Which, of course, means basically nothing since polygraphs can't actually tell whether someone is lying and are barely above a pseudoscience.
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Fire in the Sky / int_bc452029	type	Strapped to an Operating Table
Fire in the Sky / int_bc452029	comment	Strapped to an Operating Table: At one point the aliens bind Travis to a surface with a vacuum-sealed material, force open his mouth, and put a nasty tool up close to his eye.
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Fire in the Sky / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Fire in the Sky / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Released in 1993, set in 1975.
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Fire in the Sky / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Fire in the Sky / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The only supernatural elements we see are in the Flashbacks; technically, the audience can imagine that these events didn't really happen, though the film is certainly implying that they did.
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Fire in the Sky / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Fire in the Sky / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: The biggest reason Allan Dallis was suspected for murder was because of his indifferent attitude toward Travis.
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Fire in the Sky / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Fire in the Sky / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: Subverted. What looks to be a regular example of The Greys turns out to be what their spacesuits look like. They are naked during the operation, but that's at least justified as being on the safety of their own spaceship in controlled environmental conditions.
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Fire in the Sky / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Fire in the Sky / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The film initially focuses on Walters before he interrogates the loggers, at which point Mike becomes the protagonist until Travis is returned by the aliens.
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Fire in the Sky / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Fire in the Sky / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Dallis.
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Fire in the Sky / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Fire in the Sky / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Walters is convinced that the loggers murdered Travis, and refuses to consider that they're telling the truth. After Travis is returned, Watters instead decides, against all possible evidence, that they must have faked the whole thing for publicity and vows to return should they ever slip up.
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