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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The editing and surreal imagery beg this question; no, the filmmakers were not on drugs (the star, on the other hand...).
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* QuestionableCasting: The U.K. trailer warned in voice over "Nothing you have seen or heard about Music/DavidBowie can prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic role in ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''." After all, to see an incredibly vibrant and theatrical personality playing an almost emotionless alien ''would'' be a surprise...but it worked out quite well for him. Film critics generally vote this or ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' as his best film work, at least as a lead.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The U.K. trailer warned in voice over "Nothing you have seen or heard about Music/DavidBowie can prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic role in ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''." After all, to see an incredibly vibrant and theatrical personality playing an almost emotionless alien ''would'' be a surprise...but it worked out quite well for him. Film critics generally vote this or ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' as his best film work, at least as a lead.
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* UncannyValley: What happens when you cast David Bowie as a waif-like alien visitor. Even in his human disguise, the long black coat and hat that Thomas arrived in are... not ''quite'' right for the context. When we first see him, he's disguised as human, but his thinness and clothes make him look like a scarecrow, which serves to remind the audience visually of Thomas' otherworldly origin.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Nicolas Roeg himself has pointed out that Newton could be seen as a purely human EccentricMillionaire who's having hallucinations about being an alien, though that's not intended to be WordOfGod.
* ColbertBump: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] provided one with [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/31721-the-man-who-fell-to-earth his review]], in musical form to David Bowie's songs.
* CultClassic
* ColbertBump: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] provided one with [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/31721-the-man-who-fell-to-earth his review]], in musical form to David Bowie's songs.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Nicolas Roeg Creator/NicolasRoeg himself has pointed out that Newton could be seen as a purely human EccentricMillionaire who's having hallucinations about being an alien, though that's not intended to be WordOfGod.
* ColbertBump: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] provided one with [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/31721-the-man-who-fell-to-earth his review]], in musical form to David Bowie's songs.
* CultClassicWordOfGod.
* ColbertBump: [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] provided one with [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/31721-the-man-who-fell-to-earth his review]], in musical form to David Bowie's songs.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Bowie as a MessianicArchetype, since he went on to play [[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist Pontius Pilate]].
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** Music/DavidBowie as a MessianicArchetype, since he went on to play [[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist Pontius Pilate]].
** Music/DavidBowie as a MessianicArchetype, since he went on to play [[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist Pontius Pilate]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The story supposedly takes place over several decades, but the fashions, technology and virtually everything else remain pure 1970s. This isn't helped by the fact that WeAreAsMayflies to an AlienAmongUs hero who isn't physically aging, meaning that only the appearances of the supporting characters clue us into the passage of time. On top of that, just the fact that Music/DavidBowie plays an alien clearly dates it as in the decade of his Ziggy Stardust sci-fi glam phase (by the time the film was shot in 1975, he had already moved on from that persona and sound).
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* WTHCastingAgency: The U.K. trailer warned in voice over "Nothing you have seen or heard about Music/DavidBowie can prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic role in ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''." After all, to see an incredibly vibrant and theatrical personality playing an almost emotionless alien ''would'' be a surprise...but it worked out quite well for him. Film critics generally vote this or ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' as his best film work, at least as a lead.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The U.K. trailer warned in voice over "Nothing you have seen or heard about Music/DavidBowie can prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic role in ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''." After all, to see an incredibly vibrant and theatrical personality playing an almost emotionless alien ''would'' be a surprise...but it worked out quite well for him. Film critics generally vote this or ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' as his best film work, at least as a lead.lead.
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** The font used for the title would later become far more iconic for being the font used by Music/IronMaiden for their own logo.
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* AdapationDisplacement: The work is better known as a film instead of a novel.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: When Mary-Lou takes Thomas to a church service and they join the rest of the congregation in a hymn, he proves to be an off-key singer.
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** The last scene of the film features Thomas discussing an album he recorded as a message to his wife, hoping she'll be able to hear it over the radio. Considering the fact that Thomas is played by Music/DavidBowie, it ends up killing the immersion for a moment; you sorta have to wonder whether or not Thomas or Bowie is the one speaking. The fact that a ''Music/YoungAmericans'' advertisement is visible in the background at one point [[CelebrityParadox certainly doesn't help.]]
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* {{Narm}}: An emotional confrontation between Thomas and Mary-Lou climaxes with him angrily knocking a tray of cookies she is offering him into the air...and in slow-motion to boot.
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** An emotional confrontation between Thomas and Mary-Lou climaxes with him angrily knocking a tray of cookies she is offering him into the air...and in slow-motion to boot.
** An emotional confrontation between Thomas and Mary-Lou climaxes with him angrily knocking a tray of cookies she is offering him into the air...and in slow-motion to boot.
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* SoBadItsGood: For those viewers who see it as a narmy MindScrew. But others see it as a...
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* WTHCastingAgency: The U.K. trailer warned in voice over "Nothing you have seen or heard about Music/DavidBowie can prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic role in ''TheManWhoFellToEarth''.''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''." After all, to see an incredibly vibrant and theatrical personality playing an almost emotionless alien ''would'' be a surprise...but it worked out quite well for him. Film critics generally vote this or ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' as his best film work, at least as a lead.
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* RealitySubtext: Bowie was addicted to cocaine and other illicit substances at this point in his life, so seeing him play a character who falls under the sway of substance abuse has this trope written all over it (indeed, the filmmakers were aware of this). Perhaps fittingly his albums ''Station to Station'' (1976, recorded at the lowest point of his addiction) and ''Low'' (1977, the first album of the "Berlin Trilogy" that unfolded as he gradually emerged from it) got their cover art from photos of him here. As well, the look and to a lesser extent personality of his Thin White Duke stage persona for the former album and tour was adapted from his work here.
* ReclusiveArtist: Newton definitely counts--he rarely goes out in public and leaves the day to day operations of the company to Farnsworth. {{Justified}} as he wants to escape detection ("My life is not secret, but it is private.").
* ReclusiveArtist: Newton definitely counts--he rarely goes out in public and leaves the day to day operations of the company to Farnsworth. {{Justified}} as he wants to escape detection ("My life is not secret, but it is private.").
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** Also, the random shots of Thomas and Mary-Lou looking into the camera with vacant expressions (FlightOfTheConchords referenced these when their song "Bowie" was visualized for their TV show).
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* HilariousInHindsight: Bowie as a MessianicArchetype, since he went on to play [[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist Pontius Pilate]].
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* FreudWasRight: The infamous "gun sex" scene, where [[spoiler:Newton and Mary-Lou have sex while firing a gun filled with blanks at each other.]]
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* ObviousJudas: Given his intelligence and general sleaziness, it's pretty clear once Nathan starts working for Thomas that he's eventually going to figure out his secret and use it against him, but the film keeps you guessing on how exactly it will happen.
