“Loving The Alien”
Around about this time 40 years ago tonight, an excited audience of Bowie fans, curious movie goers and contest winners, sat in London’s Leicester Square Theatre waiting for the world premiere of David Bowie’s first major acting role in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
All these years later the Nicolas Roeg directed film is still a remarkable piece of work, with Bowie as the beautifully mysterious Thomas Jerome Newton, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth with a plan to transport water back to his drought-stricken and dying planet.
The Man Who Fell To Earth is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, and if you’ve not seen it you really need to check it out.
Bowie is magnificent and timeless in this film, not to mention looking absolutely incredible…with and without human disguise.
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