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Character name:Devlin Bowman
Appears in:The Master of Disguise
Date(s): 2002
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| Character back story:Devlin is an evil mastermind who plans to steal all of the world's most valuable items such as the apollo 11 lunar module
He has also kidnapped Pistachio's father who is the matriach of a family of master disguisers, Devlin plans to steal their talents and use them for himself | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:40s
criminal mastermind/businessman | Personality type:greedy,corrupt,devious,egotistical
,power mad | | Signature look:expensive suits,goatee | | Resides:new york | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia:The role of Pistachio Disguisey was originally offered to Jim Carrey |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Devlin Bowman: I think it's time for you to go.
Pistachio Disguisey: [Making talking gesture with hand] This is what you're doing...
[Closes hand]
Pistachio Disguisey: this is what I want you to do.
Devlin Bowman: Did you just tell me to shut up?
Pistachio Disguisey: Yes.
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Character name: Dr Brackish Okun
Appears in:Independence Day
Date(s):1996
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| Character back story: Dr. Brackish Okun: The scientist in charge of research at Area 51. He is later killed by a captured alien.
Devlin, who is open to the idea of bringing Dr. Okun back in the event of a sequel, later implied that the character is merely in a coma | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:50s-60s
scientist | | Personality type: | | Signature look:geeky,long hair wearing 70s style clothes | | Resides:area 51,nevada | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Fox first wanted to open the film on Memorial Day and change the name to 'Doomsday' to avoid the fierce competition on July 4th.
Dr. Okun is a reference to Jeffrey A. Okun, one of the visual effects supervisors from director Roland Emmerich's previous film Stargate (1994)
Director Roland Emmerich got the idea for the film while fielding a question about the existence of alien life during promotion for Stargate (1994). |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Mr. President, a real pleasure. They don't let us out much, you you.
Well, I guess you'd like to see the big tamale? Follow me
She's a beaut, ain't she?
PRESIDENT We've had this for forty years and you don't know anything about them?
OKUN Hell no, we know tons about them. The nearest stuff has only happened in the last few days
OKUN (cont'd) See, we can't duplicate their type of power so we've never been able to experiment. But since these guys started showing up, all the gizmos inside turned on. The last twenty four hours have been really exciting!
PRESIDENT (calming) What can you tell us about the enemy we're facing? OKUN Not all too dissimilar to us. Breathes oxygen, comparable tolerances to heat, cold...probably why they're interested in our planet. (suddenly excited) Hey, you wanna see them?
OKUN This is vault, or as some of us have come to call it, the "freak show."
OKUN When we found them they were wearing bio-mechanical suits. Once we got them off, we were able to learn a great deal about their anatomy; eyes, ears, bipolar digestive system... no vocal cords though. We're assuming they communicate with each other through other means.
DAVID What kind of other means? Hand signals, body language?
OKUN Some kind of extra sensory perception. Telepathy.
PRESIDENT Can they be killed?
OKUN These three died in the crash. Their bodies are as frail as our own. You just have to get past their technology, which is, I'm sorry to say, far more advanced.
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Character name: Data
Appears in:Star Trek TNG
Star Trek films-7 to 10
Date(s):1987 to 2005
Award(s):won 1 saturn award for best supporting actor in Star Trek First Contact (1996)
| Character back story: Designed and built by Doctor Noonien Soong, Data is a sentient android who serves as the second officer and chief operations officer aboard the starships USS Enterprise-D and USS Enterprise-E.
His positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities.
However, he has ongoing difficulties understanding various aspects of human behavior and is unable to feel emotions or understand certain human idiosyncrasies.
Data has at least 5 robotic siblings (two of which are Lore and B4).
He is immune to nearly all biological diseases that can affect humans and other carbon based lifeforms
After his final encounter with his evil brother Lore, Data retrieved & installed the emotion chip from Lore which was intended for him. Data can now experience emotions when he activates the chip
In Star Trek Nemesis, Data saved Picard and sacrificed himself by blowing up the Scimitar ship | | Inspiration for character:based on Robbie the Robot from The Forbidden Planet | | Age/Occupation: Lt. Commander | | Personality type:highly intelligent, | | Signature look:silver skin,yellow eyes, | | Resides:uss enterprise | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Originally, Data was going to be the Chief Science Officer on the Enterprise (like Spock was on the original "Star Trek" (1966)) and wear a blue uniform. However, the color blue clashed with the android make-up and the idea was changed. Data was reassigned as the Chief Operations Officer and sported a gold uniform for all seven seasons (except for two episodes, which were; the episode "Future Imperfect" in which we see him on the bridge as the First officer in the brilliantly designed computer simulation rouse of Commander Tomolak Andreas Katsulas, and the two-part episode "Chain of Command" in which he's promoted to first officer and wears a red tunic).
His character, Lt. Commander Data's "Intriguing!" line went down in Trek history as replacing Mr. Spock's world-famous "Fascinating!" line |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Data: I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.
Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Okay Data. What do *you* think we should do?
Data: Saddle up, lock and load!
Data: I seem to be missing several memory engrams.
[Geordi shows him several microchips he is holding in his hand]
Data: There they are.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: There was a rather peculiar Limerick, being delivered by someone in the shuttlecraft bay. I'm not sure I understand it...”There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a...”
Capt. Picard: Captain to security, come in!
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Did I say something wrong?
Lieutenant Worf: I don't understand their humor either.
[speaking of his first officer]
Picard: He's a stern martinet would never, ever allow me to go on away missions.
Data: That is the regulation, sir. Starfleet Code section 12, paragraph 4...
Picard: Data...
Data: Sir?
Picard: Shut up.
Data: Yes, sir.
Picard: [to the wedding guests] I've waited 15 years to say that.
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Character name: Robert E Gross
Appears in:The Aviator
Date(s):2006
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| Character back story:Robert was a self made millionaire, he built up his aviation empire/business in the early 1930s with his brother Courtlandt.
In 1932 he and brother with a group of investors bought the Detroit Aircraft Corporation & renamed it the Lockheed Corporation & Robert served as the company's president from 1934 to 1956
He made his first million when he was 30 years old
The Lockheed Corporation equipped the u.s armed forces with weapons,missiles & bombers | | Inspiration for character: based on the real robert e gross | | Age/Occupation:30s-40s | | Personality type:shrewd, | | Signature look: | | Resides:california,boston | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:First film by director Martin Scorsese to gross over $100 million in the U.S.
The budget for the costumes was $2 million.
The original screenplay was inspired by the book "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story" by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske.
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