Comments on: Silence of the Peanuts http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114 The blog of Commentary Magazine. Fri, 16 May 2008 08:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Daled Amos http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-120255 Daled Amos Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:51:18 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-120255 The original name for the movie was "He Comes In Peace" (see http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/11/061211ta_talk_paumgarten). I suppose that title may have been dropped because of the similarity to the name of the movie "I Come In Peace," with Dolph Lungren about an alien who tends to say "I Come In Peace" before killing earthlings--overdosing them with heroin so he can extract endorphins. As far as I can tell, the only similarity is that both the alien and Carter have white hair. Just saying... The original name for the movie was “He Comes In Peace” (see http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/11/061211ta_talk_paumgarten). I suppose that title may have been dropped because of the similarity to the name of the movie “I Come In Peace,” with Dolph Lungren about an alien who tends to say “I Come In Peace” before killing earthlings–overdosing them with heroin so he can extract endorphins.

As far as I can tell, the only similarity is that both the alien and Carter have white hair.

Just saying…

]]> By: J.E. Dyer http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-116071 J.E. Dyer Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:52:21 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-116071 STop Making Sense... Sigh STop Making Sense…

Sigh

]]> By: J.E. Dyer http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-116070 J.E. Dyer Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:51:41 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/3114#comment-116070 Sop Making Sense seems like another Demme product ripe for parodic comparisons here. Swimming to Gaza, anyone? Sop Making Sense seems like another Demme product ripe for parodic comparisons here. Swimming to Gaza, anyone?

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