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Flight of the Navigator

428 statements
82 feature instances
39 referencing feature instances

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Flight of the Navigator	label	Flight of the Navigator
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Flight of the Navigator	comment	Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 live-action sci-fi film from Walt Disney Pictures and Producers Sales Organization (The Neverending Story, Short Circuitnote which was released the same year). David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy living in 1978, falls into a ravine after searching for his younger brother, and wakes up eight years later — everyone has aged but him and he's apparently been gone all that time. An analysis of his brain reveals hidden schematics and star charts, and David later discovers an alien spaceship that was captured by NASA around the same time he was found. Now he must work with its computer program, which he later calls Max, to figure out what happened to him and get back home.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Flight of the Navigator / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: David's brain has been filled with data in a totally alien language that would take years to decipher, according to the NASA men.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Flight of the Navigator / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Jeff spends a quarter of the movie bugging his older brother until he grows up without David. Now that David's back in his own time, he won't be that much annoying. In the middle of the movie, the now-teenage Jeff apologizes to the still-12 David for all the crap he gave him.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Flight of the Navigator / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Somewhat, compared to other Disney movies (live-action or animated). The Freemans are somewhat (but not completely) dysfunctional, and the NASA scientists (at least from David's point-of-view) only really see him as a test subject, among other things. note That said, it should be noted that Disney technically didn't make this movie. They merely distributed it on another company (the aforementioned PSO)'s behalf - and outside North America it's not even released by Disney!
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Flight of the Navigator / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Flight of the Navigator / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: when David is being observed by scientists via a one-way mirror he angrily makes clear that he knows perfectly well what that mirror is there for, because he watches TV.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Flight of the Navigator / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Almost nothing about the residents of Phaelon are revealed, other than their technology.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Flight of the Navigator / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: More like Lawful Immoral. The staff of the NASA facility decide to keep David virtually imprisoned indefinitely without regard for the consequences when they realize how much alien data is contained in David's brain. Though the head of the facility may have meant it he'll return him home after 48 hours. Until the alien information changes things.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_1ec7ea4a	type	Watch Out for That Tree!
Flight of the Navigator / int_1ec7ea4a	comment	Watch Out for That Tree!: Max's crash. After initially dropping David off where he found him, he was in the process of leaving the planet when he got distracted by seeing daisies and ended up crashing into an electrical tower, erasing his star chart data. David found it funny that Max crashed because he was looking at flowers.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Flight of the Navigator / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: In this case, traveling backwards in time is not a pleasant experience at all.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Flight of the Navigator / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The fireworks.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Flight of the Navigator / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: David and Max encounter some of these when Max accidentally takes the ship to Tokyo instead of Fort Lauderdale.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Flight of the Navigator / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Max's race were so intrigued by the unused mental capacity of humans that they decided to cram all their star charts into David's brain, just to see what would happen. The people at NASA are perfectly willing to keep a kid locked up for life, if that's how long it takes to obtain and decode all of the alien information in his brain. When David manages to escape, the loss of this massive bounty of data is all they lament.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_2458ae1a	type	Shiny-Looking Spaceships
Flight of the Navigator / int_2458ae1a	comment	Shiny-Looking Spaceships: The Trimaxion Drone Ship is polished silver, inside and out.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Flight of the Navigator / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: 560 light years in 2.2 (solar) hours, also used to explain why David hasn't aged.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Flight of the Navigator / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: The film places appropriate emphasis on the parental fear of one's child disappearing without a trace. Of course, no parent would expect their child to turn up eight years later and still be the same age they were when they disappeared.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_3bad6ba6	type	Two of Your Earth Minutes
Flight of the Navigator / int_3bad6ba6	comment	Two of Your Earth Minutes: While David is having his memories scanned, he is asked how long it took his ship to reach the planet Phaelon. The computer screen prints out the answer: 2.2 solar (Earth) hours.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Flight of the Navigator / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Jeff as a teenager. When he was a child, he annoyed his brother constantly and scared him when David went to pick him up. As a teenager, Jeff realizes his behavior was wrong and takes on a more supportive role for David.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Flight of the Navigator / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: "Get back Jack, I've got a gun!"
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Flight of the Navigator / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
Flight of the Navigator / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: David comes home and finds his family no longer lives there, and everything has changed. Adult viewers would recognize the impossibility of such a thing really happening, but any kid watching understands immediately why David breaks down crying from the confusion, panic and terror that hits him all at once.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Flight of the Navigator / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Downplayed with R.A.L.F. the mail delivery robot, whose rudimentary A.I. sometimes malfunctions in harmless ways (according to Carolyn, anyway). Though Max was able to control it to bring David to him. Played straight with Max who got himself into the whole mess (crashed into power lines) in the first place because he was gawking at some daisies.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Flight of the Navigator / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Max originally speaks like this.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Flight of the Navigator / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed with R.A.L.F. the mail delivery robot, whose rudimentary A.I. sometimes malfunctions in harmless ways (according to Carolyn, anyway). Though Max was able to control it to bring David to him.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Flight of the Navigator / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: The security guard dog immediately detects David is stowing away inside the mail delivery robot R.A.L.F. The guard however, pays it no attention thinking his dog is just barking at the moving machine, or that he smells food in it ("C'mon, we'll get you your own breakfast!").
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Flight of the Navigator / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
Flight of the Navigator / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: David is never the same again after his trip to Phaelon.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Flight of the Navigator / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Although it's only been eight years, David has difficulties adjusting to music clips and five brands of Coke.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Flight of the Navigator / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: And during the scene where Dr. Farraday interviews David using the computers to scan his brain waves, asking where he was for eight years:
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Flight of the Navigator / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
Flight of the Navigator / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: David loses consciousness for "a second" and wakes up 8 years later. Once the science is explained, this situation doesn't quite fit the trope, but from David's point of view that's what happened.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Flight of the Navigator / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Jeff blames himself for David's disappearance. It isn't shown, but from the way Jeff describes the almost manic way he pinned "Have You Seen?" posters for him, he was hurt a lot more than he puts on.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_60e2ec3e	type	Artificial Intelligence
Flight of the Navigator / int_60e2ec3e	comment	Artificial Intelligence: Max is a robotic A.I. for an entire spaceship. His race is never seen, so the question of whether they are organic beings who achieved Brain Uploading or evolved as Mechanical Lifeforms is never addressed.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_612b0606	type	Scary Shadow Fakeout
Flight of the Navigator / int_612b0606	comment	Scary Shadow Fakeout: Toward the beginning of the movie, a Flying Saucer-shaped object throws a huge shadow on the ground, and people look around in alarm to see— the Goodyear Blimp.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_670b7e0e	type	I Know You're Watching Me
Flight of the Navigator / int_670b7e0e	comment	I Know You're Watching Me: After David learns that his stay at the base has been extended indefinitely, he reveals that he knows the mirror in his room is a two-way mirror, and he's being constantly observed.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Flight of the Navigator / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Inverted with Future!Jeff and David. He reassures David once he realizes that he is talking to his grown-up kid brother and he helps David get back home using fireworks to help David identify their house. It’s implied that David becomes more doting towards Jeff when he returns to his time.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_6d4a70a0	type	Popular History
Flight of the Navigator / int_6d4a70a0	comment	Popular History: If we are to believe the filmmakers, The Bee Gees were the only pop group in 1978 that preteens wanted to go see. (So up yours, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Styx, and Van Halen!) What makes it really ludicrous is that the Bee Gees are equated with Twisted Sister. Well, David did say that it was his mother who took him to the concert. She may not approve of those bands or liked the Bee Gees herself and brought him along. Also, parents in 1978 had a lot more power and control over their kids than even they would some years later. Granted, his sex/gender might help slightly as David's social life would have been even more restricted in 1978 had he instead been a 12 year old girl named Deanna.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Flight of the Navigator / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: One of the aliens on the ship eats David's hat, and might have eaten his head.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_70af5e15	type	Anthropic Principle
Flight of the Navigator / int_70af5e15	comment	Anthropic Principle: The Phaelonians couldn't simply return David to his original time in the beginning of the film, as they feared time travel would vaporize his fragile body.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Flight of the Navigator / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Max, before being affected by David's humanity.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
Flight of the Navigator / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: David hears the voice of Max calling him to the ship.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Flight of the Navigator / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: David ultimately gets his Happy Ending, but one small detail is overlooked. His brain. Max downloaded a copy of the star charts to navigate back to Phaelon. David's subconscious still retains vast amounts of information on the spacecraft, its means of propulsion, etc, and does whatever it wants to whenever he gets near a computer. Not of much consequence in the 70s. As he goes through his natural life, however, technology becomes more prevalent in the next decade, and he's going to end up, once again, attracting government attention.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Flight of the Navigator / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Before David was abducted, he was watching a girl he likes through his telescope. She wasn't brought up again, even after he reappeared 8 years later.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Flight of the Navigator / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The movie opens with that appears to be a flying saucer flying above the city. It soon turns out to be frisbees thrown in a dog contest. Later in the same scene, something floats above the crowd, it was a low-flying blimp. And while David treks through the woods to get Jeff, there's something above the trees: it's a water tower. It doubles as a Lampshade Hanging/Homage to classic The '50s B-Movie sci-fi which used hubcaps and frisbees for Off-the-Shelf FX flying saucers. In addition, it also shows how much time has passed when Jeff has successfully taught the family dog to catch frisbees; in the opening, the dog couldn't be bothered. Also, it doubles as Foreshadowing since that first frisbee is a sleek, featureless silver object, just like the ship David would be in.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Flight of the Navigator / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Carolyn's - discussed with reference to the purple streak therein.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_8c732f20	type	Time Dilation
Flight of the Navigator / int_8c732f20	comment	Time Dilation: The reason why David goes from 1978 to 1986 without aging a day.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_93d440d2	type	Identity Absorption
Flight of the Navigator / int_93d440d2	comment	Identity Absorption: Max got a little more data than he bargained for when he scanned David's mind for the star charts.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Flight of the Navigator / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In addition to all the examples listed under Bait-and-Switch, as David makes his way through the woods in search of his brother, we get multiple shots of an eerie light shining through the trees, always accompanied by a creepy musical cue. Sure, it could be the last of the daylight (though the darkening sky as David crossed the railroad track suggested that the sun had already set)... but perhaps it indicates that the Trimaxion Drone Ship is already hovering silently somewhere nearby, surveying the area for potential samples.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Flight of the Navigator / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Max would normally take his specimens back in time to when they were abducted, but has reluctance at taking David, fearing it would vaporize him since his body is "too fragile". Fortunately, David was able to survive the journey.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
Flight of the Navigator / int_9e1beee3	comment	Max's race were so intrigued by the unused mental capacity of humans that they decided to cram all their star charts into David's brain, just to see what would happen.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_9e1beee3	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_9e1beee3
Flight of the Navigator / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Flight of the Navigator / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Jeff knows David's got a small alien creature.
Flight of the Navigator / int_9f970427	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_9f970427	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_9f970427
Flight of the Navigator / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Flight of the Navigator / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: David was taken to Phaelon for study.
Flight of the Navigator / int_a05522e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_a05522e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_a05522e3
Flight of the Navigator / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Flight of the Navigator / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: During the whole scene at Big Al's Alligator Farm, Big Al just stares in shock at the spaceship, even silently giving David money to use the phone and not hearing a tourist talking to him. When the spaceship takes off, Al just comments on how David just wanted to phone home.
Flight of the Navigator / int_a0797fb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_a0797fb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_a0797fb3
Flight of the Navigator / int_a4a1d3af	type	Big Little Brother
Flight of the Navigator / int_a4a1d3af	comment	Big Little Brother: Jeff became this for David as he is now taller and older than David. The change is extremely awkward — but thought-provoking — to the both of them. Jeff even mentions this by name ("This is totally rad, I mean... you're my big little brother!")
Flight of the Navigator / int_a4a1d3af	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_a4a1d3af	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_a4a1d3af
Flight of the Navigator / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Flight of the Navigator / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Max had a moment of this before he absorbed humanity from David when it's revealed he crashed into an electrical tower because he was checking out daisies.
Flight of the Navigator / int_a8a4b41e	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_a8a4b41e	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_a8a4b41e
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Max speaks like this after downloading the info from David's brain.
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa42306e	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa42306e	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_aa42306e
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: As Max realises to his horror after downloading a copy of the star charts from David. He quickly embraces it.
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa88f109	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_aa88f109	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_aa88f109
Flight of the Navigator / int_ab940e63	type	Robo Speak
Flight of the Navigator / int_ab940e63	comment	Robo Speak: Max before getting his data back, as exemplified in the second page quote.
Flight of the Navigator / int_ab940e63	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_ab940e63	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_ab940e63
Flight of the Navigator / int_add9026	type	Older and Wiser
Flight of the Navigator / int_add9026	comment	Older and Wiser: David's brother Jeff grew up to be a pretty cool teenager. On a lesser note, the family dog "Bruiser" may have taken eight years, but he grew from an oblivious puppy who couldn't follow commands to save his life into a competent frisbee-catching dog.
Flight of the Navigator / int_add9026	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_add9026	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_add9026
Flight of the Navigator / int_ae50ca8f	type	Stage Names
Flight of the Navigator / int_ae50ca8f	comment	Stage Names: Paul Reubens had himself billed as "Paul Mall". No one was fooled.
Flight of the Navigator / int_ae50ca8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_ae50ca8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_ae50ca8f
Flight of the Navigator / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Flight of the Navigator / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Compliance."
Flight of the Navigator / int_b01abe4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_b01abe4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_b01abe4f
Flight of the Navigator / int_b13573b7	type	Machine Monotone
Flight of the Navigator / int_b13573b7	comment	Machine Monotone: The previously mentioned mail delivery robot R.A.L.F..
Flight of the Navigator / int_b13573b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_b13573b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_b13573b7
Flight of the Navigator / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Flight of the Navigator / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Matt Adler plays 16 year old Jeff for the majority of the movie, while Albie Whitaker plays 8 year old Jeff at the start and end of the film.
Flight of the Navigator / int_b15ad926	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_b15ad926	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_b15ad926
Flight of the Navigator / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
Flight of the Navigator / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: The Trimaxion Drone Ship.
Flight of the Navigator / int_b1b5081b	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_b1b5081b	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_b1b5081b
Flight of the Navigator / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Flight of the Navigator / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Max crashes his ship into an electrical tower due to looking at daisies during his departure from Earth. David can't help but find it amusing.
Flight of the Navigator / int_b7bc7d28	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_b7bc7d28	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_b7bc7d28
Flight of the Navigator / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Flight of the Navigator / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: David can either stay in 1986 and spend the rest of his life as a test subject, or try traveling back to 1978 and risk being vaporized. It's seeing the NASA staffers at his house that convinces him to take his chances on the latter.
Flight of the Navigator / int_babc974	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_babc974	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_babc974
Flight of the Navigator / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Flight of the Navigator / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: As if music videosnote Which had just become a new thing at the time; it had been five years since MTV had launched. and multiple brands of Coke being the new "in" things which confuse David, or Carolyn's hairdo, wasn't enough to remind viewers exactly which decade David finds himself in, we also have the synthesized soundtrack which practically oozes '80s.
Flight of the Navigator / int_c10da874	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_c10da874	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_c10da874
Flight of the Navigator / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Flight of the Navigator / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: RALF: "Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator."
Flight of the Navigator / int_c25c7890	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_c25c7890	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_c25c7890
Flight of the Navigator / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Flight of the Navigator / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: 1978, as the movie was made in 1986.
Flight of the Navigator / int_c49935fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_c49935fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_c49935fa
Flight of the Navigator / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Flight of the Navigator / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "He just said he wanted to phone home..." One of the alien critters on board the ship comes from the "Pixar Elliptic." (Pixar was founded the year the film was released.) After absorbing some of the information in David's head, Max briefly starts talking like Scotty. Max himself seems to be channeling HAL-9000 early on, being a coldly logical AI represented by a single glowing "eye" who speaks in a flat monotone and interacts with a character named "David". Of course, a few of those commonalities go out the window once David's personality bleeds over onto his. "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!" In one of the 80s scenes at the home of David's parents, they are watching The Price Is Right. (Specifically, the primetime version with Tom Kennedy.) The little girl at the gator farm is wearing an EPCOT Center tee-shirt.
Flight of the Navigator / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_c75df49a
Flight of the Navigator / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Flight of the Navigator / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: And one that looks like a watermelon seed.
Flight of the Navigator / int_c7b5445c	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_c7b5445c	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_c7b5445c
Flight of the Navigator / int_cd3ebc8e	type	What Year Is This?
Flight of the Navigator / int_cd3ebc8e	comment	What Year Is This?: Inverted. David, who's unaware he's traveled 8 years into the future, is asked this by the suspicious police.
Flight of the Navigator / int_cd3ebc8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_cd3ebc8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_cd3ebc8e
Flight of the Navigator / int_ce40dbf7	type	Fake Action Prologue
Flight of the Navigator / int_ce40dbf7	comment	Fake Action Prologue: The film opens with a lingering shot of a shiny Flying Saucer hovering in midair... and then a dog leaps up and catches it. It was a frisbee.
Flight of the Navigator / int_ce40dbf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_ce40dbf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_ce40dbf7
Flight of the Navigator / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Flight of the Navigator / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: David has this opinion of the opera and Tejano music that Max picks up on his radio.
Flight of the Navigator / int_d4e9de59	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_d4e9de59	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_d4e9de59
Flight of the Navigator / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Flight of the Navigator / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: After getting his data back, Max trades many barbs with David, yet still is concerned for his welfare and regrets getting him into this mess.
Flight of the Navigator / int_d7fc9fd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_d7fc9fd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_d7fc9fd0
Flight of the Navigator / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Flight of the Navigator / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Not literally, but David realizes he would never be able to live a normal life if he stays in the 80's with the government hounding him, and risks being vaporized to go back.
Flight of the Navigator / int_dcd29760	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_dcd29760	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_dcd29760
Flight of the Navigator / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Flight of the Navigator / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: For David, anyway. NASA only treating him like a test subject, earlier on, he learns that he was declared Legally Dead. And his favorite TV show Starsky & Hutch was cancelled.
Flight of the Navigator / int_deb39de3	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_deb39de3	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_deb39de3
Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff	comment	Never Grew Up: Not by choice, but David experiences firsthand the consequences of travelling faster than the speed of light.
Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_e1896cff
Flight of the Navigator / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Flight of the Navigator / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Puckmaren, who doesn't know that he can't go home because his planet was destroyed by a comet after he was taken.
Flight of the Navigator / int_e26f04b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_e26f04b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_e26f04b4
Flight of the Navigator / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Flight of the Navigator / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Max stops being fun-loving the moment David requests to return to the past, fearing his fragile human body would be vaporized.
Flight of the Navigator / int_e83f211c	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_e83f211c	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_e83f211c
Flight of the Navigator / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Flight of the Navigator / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: David told Max to take the ship twenty miles away from the NASA base. He never specified a direction...
Flight of the Navigator / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_e9e35e8f
Flight of the Navigator / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Flight of the Navigator / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Trimaxion (or Phaelonian?) race has perfected the ability to travel at any speed and travel anywhere at any point in time they wish.
Flight of the Navigator / int_f7b32015	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_f7b32015	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_f7b32015
Flight of the Navigator / int_fb794269	type	Electronic Telepathy
Flight of the Navigator / int_fb794269	comment	Electronic Telepathy: Subverted. David has no control over his subconscious and isn't even aware it can accurately answer questions and output metric tons of data only the brightest minds on the planet could hope to comprehend, whilst interfacing with computers. Ultimately this gets him made into a Unwitting Test Subject as scientists realize it would take them years to decipher the information a five-minute session yielded.
Flight of the Navigator / int_fb794269	featureApplicability	-0.3
Flight of the Navigator / int_fb794269	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_fb794269
Flight of the Navigator / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Flight of the Navigator / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: When the ship travels 20 miles straight up, David floats up to the ceiling as if in microgravity. In reality, at 20 miles up the Earth's gravity is pretty much just as strong as on the surface (astronauts float because they are falling along with the ship or space station around — it's just that they are traveling sideways fast enough that the Earth curves away beneath them so they never end up hitting the ground). Though this is probably ignored for Rule of Funny.
Flight of the Navigator / int_fc225bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_fc225bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_fc225bec
Flight of the Navigator / int_fcbcc221	type	Robot Buddy
Flight of the Navigator / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: RALF is this for Carolyn, and she even talks to it like it was a pet.
Flight of the Navigator / int_fcbcc221	featureApplicability	1.0
Flight of the Navigator / int_fcbcc221	featureConfidence	1.0
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Flight of the Navigator / int_fcbcc221
Flight of the Navigator / int_fe8a4ee2	type	Spheroid Dropship
Flight of the Navigator / int_fe8a4ee2	comment	Spheroid Dropship: Not quite, but the ship's original form is roughly spherical.
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Flight of the Navigator / int_fe8a4ee2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Flight of the Navigator / int_name	comment
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FlightoftheNavigator	sameAs	Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Acrophobic Bird / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Annoying Younger Sibling / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Big Little Brother / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Broken Tears / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Creepy Monotone / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Cyborg Helmsman / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Eccentric A.I. / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Eldritch Starship / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Fake Action Prologue / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Falling into the Cockpit / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Frictionless Reentry / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Gilded Cage / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Human Furniture Is a Pain in the Tail / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Human Hard Drive / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	I Know You're Watching Me / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	International Coproduction / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Lilliputians / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Machine Monotone / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	My Skull Runneth Over / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Neuro-Vault / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	90% of Your Brain / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Oculothorax / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Robot Buddy / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Sapient Ship / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Shiny-Looking Spaceships / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Spock Speak / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Stay with the Aliens / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	The Captain / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Time Dilation / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Two of Your Earth Minutes / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Unusual User Interface / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	Vertigo Effect / int_eaaef767
Flight of the Navigator	hasFeature	What Year Is This? / int_eaaef767

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