Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!wsl From: wsl@eosp1.UUCP (Warren Lobel) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: GREMLINS Comments (Contains SPOILER!!) & Questions Message-ID: <943@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:54:03 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.943 Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:54:03 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:06:44 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 52 I just saw GREMLINS last night and liked it very much. One gripe I have with it though is that ever since Star Wars a lot of the big budget films from Lucas and/or Spielberg seem to be made with the thought that lot of money will be made by marketing toys based on the movie. In this case little MOGWAI dolls. The two biggest example of this are the EWOK dolls from 'Return of the Jedi'. (As an aside I saw an interview with Lucas where he stated that in the original plot for RotJ the inhabitants of the Endor moon were supposed to be members of Chewbacca's race, i.e. WOOKIES. Lucas said that the inhabitants were made into EWOKS because he thought it would be more dramatic to show the little guys beat on the big, bad empire stormtroopers. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual reason turned out to be that EOWKS are the more marketable (and cuter) of the two creatures. (I mean how many little kids would want an 8-foot doll versus how many would want a 2-foot or smaller doll). More examples would be E.T. and the numerous 'action figures' from all three of the 'Star Wars' films. But I digress. SPOILER!!!! An interesting observation is that the GREMLIN that hatched at the school and killed Mr. Hanson was NEVER destroyed. It escaped when Billy tried to track it down. Obviously, it could have joined the others after Stripe spawned the mess but this was never explained in the movie. I read the novelization prior to seeing the movie so I knew what was supposed to happen. That is the 'school' Gremlin was killed by Billy, but as already stated this did not happen in the movie. If anybody can explain the on-screen fate of the 'school' gremlin I would really like to know. Also, recall that there were five Gremlins in Billy's house four of which were destroyed (only Stripe escaped). I know that 1 was minced in the blender, 1 was baked in the microwave and 1 was decapitated by Billy. But what was the fate of the fourth Gremlin?? If anybody knows the answers to the two questions posed here I would appreciate it a response via the Net (net.movies) or mail. Thanks in advance. (By the way the Gremlins novelization goes into great detail about the origin and nature of the MOGWAI and is good story to boot!) -- Warren Lobel