Hart, a law school graduate, admits that he is the least-suited for soldiering: "...I haven""t any heart for this.I thought this business would be over with before I got here." Bartlett speaks up for his honest buddy: "I don""t like heroes or big-mouths.We""re all scared and why shouldn""t we be?...You""re all right, kid.I like guys who are honest with themselves.Stay that way." [Throughout the film, Eddie is caught between the good and evil ""pull"" of his co-stars (Lloyd and George).One of the film""s posters declared: "We are not alone."The transcendent film followed the odyssey of various characters, including an obsessed, middle-class power lineman named Roy Neary (Dreyfuss, who had earlier appeared in Spielberg""sJaws, but was offered the part only after tough-actor Steve McQueen declined) and a distraught mother named Gillian (Dillon), and her young son Barry (Guffey), as they are inexplicably lured to a volcano-like mountain in Wyoming, to experience a spectacular, extra-terrestrial encounter.Just before a massive dynamite explosion that killed him(# 5 death), Freddy spoke directly into the camera: "Oh, kids.Meanwhile, Rick contracted with reluctant ex-associate Izzy Buttons (Shaun Parkes), an airline pilot for Magic Carpet Airways, to provide transportation for them, although Buttons remembered he was shot in the arse in a past job with O""Connell.