District 9

District 9 (2009)

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Wikus Van De Merwe: This whole's thing's under your shack? For 20 years, you've had this fookin' thing hidden out here? This is, this is very illegal, I mean, this is... This is a fine.

Automated MNU Instructional Voice: When dealing with aliens, try to be polite, but firm. And always remember that a smile is cheaper than a bullet.

MNU Agent: We need your signature on this eviction notice.
Angry Alien: Fuck off!

MNU Agent: MNU! We're serving eviction notices.
Alien: What is "eviction"?

Fundiswa Mhlanga: He was an honest man, and he didn't deserve any of what happened to him.

Wikus Van De Merwe: Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there, it sounded like you said *three years*.

Police Officer: I mean, you can't say they don't look like that, that's what they look like, right? They look like prawns.

Continuity mistake: A news announcer mentions that the suspect, Wikus, has been on the run for a week but moments later the screen shows "72 hours after exposure" meaning he's been on the run for 3 days at most.

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Trivia: Dialogue for the film was not scripted. Each scene was written as a synopsis, and the actors improvised their own dialogue on set and even as the camera rolled.

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Question: Something I couldn't figure out. The black fluid (in the glass cylinder) made Wikus start turning into an alien. If the aliens were mainly interested in going back to their planet, why had they been developing a substance that could turn humans into aliens? How would this help them go home?

Answer: That's more of a side effect of the fluid. See, only the Prawns could use their technology; it was "genetically activated", so to speak. So the fluid which powers their tech is like Prawn-gene concentrate. When Wikus was sprayed with the stuff it affected his genetic makeup.

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