The John Alvin poster for the film with E.T.""s glowing, heavenly fingertip also presents a religious theme, recalling Michelangelo""s ""Creation of Adam"" painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.If that happens, you""ll get a great cloud of smoke that will eat through anything.Steel, concrete, anything." Explosions rocked the facility, and Jimmy (who was taking photographs on an extended firetruck ladder) fell to the ground and broke his left leg.He becomes a national figure, and causes the spread of ""John Doe Clubs"" across the country.The benevolent, empowering fraud is eventually uncovered (and opposed by corrupting, unscrupulous political influences), and Doe is forced to publicly admit the charade.Due to the townspeople""s cowardice (representing cooperative witnesses before the HUAC), physical inability, self-interest, expediency, and indecisiveness, he is refused help at every turn against a revenge-seeking killer and his gang.