On Dec 4, 9:33 am, nobody <yos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_%28film%29#Plot
>
> The film depicts a greedy alien security chief, Terl (Travolta), who
> enslaves human prisoners to mine gold for his people. Barry Pepper
> plays Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a human (or "man-animal", as the
> "Psychlos" named them) who decides to liberate his people by fighting
> the "Psychlos". The plot follows roughly the same lines as the
> original book, though with some major omissions and simplifications.
> The film ends approximately one half of the way through the book, with
> the destruction of Psychlo and liberation of the Earth.
>
> Travolta originally saw himself in the role of Tyler, but by the time
> the movie was actually made, Travolta felt he was too old to play the
> role, and took the role of the main villain instead.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_%28novel%29#Synopsis
"In the year 3000 AD, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the
Psychlos, for a millennium. Humanity has been reduced to a few
scattered tribes in isolated parts of the world while the Psychlos
strip the planet of its mineral wealth. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a member
of one such tribe, lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. He
leaves his village to explore the lowlands and to disprove the
superstitions long held by his people involving ancient gods and
monsters. However, he is captured in the ruins of Denver by Terl, the
Psychlo chief of security. The Psychlos, hairy 9-foot high, 1000-pound
sociopaths, originate from a planet with an atmosphere very different
from that of earth. Their "breath-gas" explodes on contact with even
trace amounts of radioactive metals, such as uranium. From the very
beginning, the reader learns that Terl has discovered a lode of gold
up in the Rocky Mountains that he wants to get his hands on "off the
company books" but is surrounded by uranium deposits that make Psychlo
mining impossible. Terl captures Jonnie by accident while searching
for "man-animals" to train to mine where he himself cannot.
After a time, Terl captures Jonnie's girlfriend and her little sister
and uses the threat of their deaths to ensure cooperation from Jonnie.
Jonnie is afterwards free to move around the mining area. Shortly
thereafter, Terl and Jonnie travel to Scotland and recruit 83 Scottish
youth to help with the mining. Jonnie, however, has different plans.
Due to the fact that Terl does not understand English, Jonnie is able
to convince the Scots to help him overthrow the Psychlo rule on Earth.
During the next several months, Jonnie and the Scots try to mine the
gold as well as develop a means of defeating not only the Psychlos on
Earth, but also nullify the threat of counterattack that could come
from Psychlo (the Psychlo's home planet). During the semi-annual
tele****tation of personnel, goods, and coffins (all dead Psychlos are
****pped home for burial on Psychlo) back to Psychlo, Jonnie and the
Scots manage to pack several of the huge coffins with nuclear dirty
bombs and "planet busters" in hopes of destroying the Psychlo's home
planet. After the tele****tation firing, the humans use the Psychlo's
own war planes, tanks, and weapons against them and regain control of
Earth.
This is, however, not the end of the story. Unsure as to whether the
bombs sent even reached Psychlo and under the imminent threat of
counterattack, Jonnie must now defend his newly-retaken planet against
the predatory interests of several other interstellar races, including
a race of intergalactic bankers seeking to repossess the Earth in lieu
of unpaid debts, as well as a newly-emerging group of humans seeking
to wrest control of Earth from him. In order to ensure the security
and independence of Humanity, he does something that no other race in
300,000 years has been able to do: uncover the secret of Psychlo
mathematics and tele****tation.
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