Battlefield Earth story
Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American science fiction action film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Synopsis: The film follows a rebellion against the alien Psychlos, a brutal race of humanoid aliens who have ruled Earth for 1,000 years.
17 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| resistance movement | choice | The whole story is about Jonnie Goodboy Tyler leading a rebellion against Earth's humanoid alien overlords. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The Psychlo humanoid aliens were using human slave labor to strip Earth of its minerals and other resources, especially gold. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Jonnie Goodboy Tyler and other humans were imprisoned and enslaved by the Psychols. |
| social oppression | major | The humans, led by Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, rose up against their Psychlo oppressors. |
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | minor | The alien hologram spoke of how the Psychols has exterminated his race. |
| betrayal | minor | Terl was betrayed by his deputy Ker. It went down like this: Terl and Ker conspired to illegally extract gold from Earth with 80% of the profits going to Terl, and 20% to Ker. Then Ker used incriminating video footage of Terl to try and stiff arm Terl into agreeing to reverse the percentages in his favor. |
| coping with having a lousy dead-end job | minor | Terl's superiors consigned him to oversee the remote Psychol outpost known as Earth indefinitely as punishment over one or more unexplained incidents involving "the Senator's daughter". |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | Johnnie pointedly mourned the death of his cellmate Sammy, who was executed by Terl and Ker in a display of power and control. |
| criminal fraud | minor | It came to light that District Manager Zete had been cutting workers' pay and pocketing the difference. |
| foreign point of view | minor | The humans were savages from the point of view of the Psychols. In one pointed illustration of this Terl and Ker came to the mistaken conclusion that humans enjoyed eating live rats after watching their prisoner Johnnie eat one out of desperation. |