Species

Corrected entry: In the scene where Sil (as a young girl in the lab's container tank) realizes she's being gassed with cyanide, she escapes by diving through the glass enclosure. The gas escapes along with Sil. The lab techs (who are fully protected with Hazmat Suits) fall down dead when the gas reaches them. Shouldn't the suits have protected the lab techs from the gas? That's the whole point of wearing Hazmat material, right?

Correction: They are not "fully protected". They aren't wearing resirators, merely some sort of surgical mask/hood arrangement, and despite the suits are breathing the atmospehere in the lab.

Corrected entry: It's impossible for Sil to wear the conductor's clothes. She's tall and slim around maybe 5'9" while the conductor looks to be 5'5"or so and a little chubby.

Rob245

Correction: It's not "impossible" in the slightest. Both women were roughly the same height. Natasha Henstridge is about 5'10" and Esther Williams was usually listed around 5'9" or 5'10" before she passed away. And the weight difference also makes sense, as the clothes look baggy and ill-fitting on Sil. (Ex. The jacket is very loose and hanging around her shoulders and arms, and the shirt isn't nearly as form-fitting as it was on the conductor.) It's pretty much perfectly portrayed in the film.

TedStixon

Corrected entry: As Sil leads the team into the hills, she has the woman she kidnapped in the passenger seat, but lying down and no one can see her. Ben Kingsley's character says on the radio "THEY are heading into the hills", but he should have said "She is heading into the hills", as the entire point of this is that none of the team can know that Sil has a captive. (01:09:00 - 01:10:00)

Frov

Correction: He was referring to Laura and Press as they were way ahead pursuing her so when he's says "they're" he's referring to Laura and Press and Sil.

Corrected entry: After the man takes her from home with him and they are both in the swimming pool at his home, she whips off his trunks begging him, but in the next part when he's fighting her off and he's later seen floating dead, he has his trunks back on.

Correction: If you watch the scene closely you will see that she never gets his bathing suit off. Even when he gets out to see who was at the door, you can see he is wearing them. She tried to get them off, but he wouldn't let her.

Character mistake: Fitch, who professes qualifications in biology, genetics and biochemistry, says that they made Sil female because she's a natural predator and so she'd be more docile. In almost every species of predator on earth the females are the hunters, aggressors and killers. The males may be socially dominant but they are the 'docile' ones. There are exceptions but Fitch speaks as if female and docile are the same thing - and they definitely are not.

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Suggested correction: This entry is so wrong, I don't quite know where to begin. The idea that all species, without exception, have the females as the aggressors and the males as docile is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. It is not backed up by fact in the slightest. They also did use human DNA; they added the sample of alien DNA to it to create Sil.

The posting states that there are exceptions to the rule and specifically states "almost every species." The mistake is not that a female must be "docile". It is that a scientist professing qualifications in biology, genetics, and biochemistry would make such a stupid statement, believing it to be invariably true.

However, there are exceptions; any one species makes this possible. I will start with African Lions. In Africa, the female lions are the main aggressors.

Noman

Suggested correction: They never said Sil was a natural predator when they created her. She was half human and half alien and it was their belief that human females are more docile (i.e. more motherly, more gentle, more empathetic, and less aggressive than human males). Although the reply to "more docile and controllable" was "you guys don't get out much", meaning that girls aren't that docile and controllable.

Bishop73

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Preston Lennox: Yeah? That's great. I feel sorry for her.

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Trivia: Sil's alien sound effects were primarily provided by Frank Welker. Welker is a well-respected voice-actor with over 800 credits to his name beginning in the late 1960's. He also specializes in animal and creature sound effects.

TedStixon

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