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Post by seafoamonster on Nov 26, 2013 9:54:39 GMT -5
How in the world did the monsters get portraits of the children? Was in an artist rendering? But how?
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Post by pitbulllady on Nov 26, 2013 14:07:41 GMT -5
You haven't gotten the DVD for MU yet? There's a rough-animated "extra", a scene that was eventually deleted due to time, that explains all that. It's called "Recon", and basically there are MU students, working for extra credit(Human World Reconnaissance is an actual course at MU). These students are VERY tiny, insect-sized, and can fly. The fly into the rooms of human children, armed with tiny cameras, and take photos and write down their interpretations of what they see. The children that they're spying on think that they're seeing fireflies and don't get scared. The tiny monsters then fly back through the closet door and report their findings to their professor. Presumably, after they graduate, they are hired by utilities companies like MI or Fear Co. to spy on kids and gather data on them and the layout of their rooms, proximity to parents' rooms, presence of dogs or other pets, whether the room is neat or cluttered, the height of the ceiling, etc., in addition to information like the child's presumed age and gender and their fears. Since it's open to interpretation, the tiny firefly monsters do sometimes get things wrong. For instance, on Boo's profile, she was described as "four years old"(she was actually two) and a BOY, even though her name, MARY, was written at the top. In the deleted scene for MU, the child in question has lots of posters of snakes and lizards on his wall, so the spy interpreted that, incorrectly, as meaning that this particular child was afraid of reptiles. In fact, humans generally don't put up picture of things that they are afraid of or DON'T like, but things that they're very fond of. Wonder how many adolescent girls that they've spied on and concluded were afraid of Justin Beiber?
pitbulllady
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Post by seafoamonster on Dec 1, 2013 9:39:28 GMT -5
Wow...that makes sense... People at my house would rather get it on Apple TV, which does nothing but show the movie.
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Post by pitvipersnake on Dec 30, 2013 12:54:35 GMT -5
I watched that scene on youtube. It occurred to me after watching it if the monsters assume that the pictures that human children put on there walls are things they're scared of does that mean monsters put up pictures of things they're scared of on their bedroom walls? That would make sense as they consider scariness a virtue.
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