Fight for earth
Battlefield Earth (Original title: Battlefield Earth , literally "battlefield earth") is the title of a 1982 published novel trilogy of science fiction - author and Scientology -Gründers L. Ron Hubbard .
action
The liberation struggle of the remnants of mankind (approx. 30,000 worldwide, many of them in the British Isles) is described against the Psychlos , a race of extraterrestrial occupiers who conquered the earth approx. 1000 years before the action, around the year 2000, and in Depopulated in less than an hour with poison gas and are now exploiting the planet's mineral resources . The conquerors did not show any conscience, and the unmanned probe that distributed the gas was immune to nuclear attacks. Survivors could only stay in the vicinity of ionizing radiation , as the air the conquerors breathed reacts with it explosively (and is released from the suits after use, so it is impossible for the psychless to be there because they would simply explode). When Terl realizes that there are even greater gold reserves in the vicinity of the areas that are dangerous for his race, he decides to let the people exploit them and to transport the gold secretly to Psychlo in order to improve his social rank Planet Psychlo only counts wealth; also for political power. To do this, he captures the young Johnnie Goodboy Tyler , who had left his village in a radioactive area to take a closer look at the psychlos, now known as demons .
Terl quickly realizes that Tyler is more intelligent than he would have thought people to be when he tries to communicate on his own initiative and repeats words from the language of the psychlos. With the help of a machine that contains learning programs, he teaches Johnny the language of a race known as a researcher and historian (Psychlo is forbidden for reasons of secrecy, but Johnny learns it by himself), as well as the basic operation of the machines and equipment used for the Mining and transportation of the gold are needed. However, Johnny himself finds other tapes that Terl thoughtlessly (and assuming that Johnny cannot operate the machine himself) to add. So Tyler learns a lot about the history of the Psychlos and the invasion.
Tyler succeeds in convincing Terl that he is not in a position to mine the required amount of gold on his own, and is provided with an unarmed flying machine with which he contacts survivors all over the world and, after tough negotiations, sometimes under them Mortal danger, united behind them. With these he reactivates old weapon systems, which prove to be partially effective against the numerically far inferior psychlos. He is also supported in this by Ker , a short, good-natured psychlo who cannot and does not want to approve of the methods of his breed. As it turns out, the Psychlos are not inherently malignant, but are made to be malicious by the ruling class through the use of implants in the brain. Ker doesn't have this because he was abandoned as a child.
The Psychlos are driven out by Johnny and his "army", whose backbones are Scottish and Russian warriors, and their home planet Psychlo is also destroyed by Tyler with a nuclear weapon , as the reaction of the atmosphere with the radioactivity sets off a chain reaction that the planet in Seconds destroyed. This "beams" Tyler with the gold Terls and the dead Psychlos, in whose coffins he wants to smuggle the gold, (Terl commits several murders in order to have the required number of coffins available) to the home planet. After that, a war begins against the other races, previously oppressed by the psychless, who want to use the power vacuum that has arisen and consider humanity to be dangerous. Ultimately, only the intervention of an interstellar financial institution (whose employees are described as shark-like) can ensure lasting peace. In addition, Tyler succeeds in reproducing a weapon of mass destruction that Terl had built for self-protection, which can also destroy entire planets, as it creates a kind of superdense star. A warlike race that is not ready to negotiate will be enslaved and exterminated in the course of the negotiations, while reconstruction begins on Earth and this will serve as an interstellar meeting center.
filming
The novel was made into a film in 2000 with the actor and Scientology supporter John Travolta in the role of the psychlo-villain Terl under the title Battlefield Earth . Travolta also took on the duties of producer of the film, which went down as one of the biggest flops in film history to date. The film was awarded several Golden Raspberries (including: worst film of the decade) and is widely regarded as one of the worst films of all time .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Battlefield Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)