Robinson), the two California settings (Los Angeles and Berkeley) and S.and N.California cultures (materialistic vs.intellectual), and the division in Benjamin""s character (morally drifting and indecisive vs.committed).There was already a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo and middle-class values, and the breakthrough film mirrored hat anarchic mood perfectly for America""s youth of the 60s during he escalation of the Vietnam War.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.Cochran politely applauded Dr.Challis as he watched the Stonehenge monolith glow and the circle of computers magically discharge bluish-white light energy.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982),Poltergeist (1982),andStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).The influential film""s taglines partially described he scenario:"In the future, cities will become deserts, roads will become battlefields and the hope of mankind will appear as a stranger.Don""t you recognize it?Werdegast: I can still sense death in the air.Poelzig: There is still death in the air.It is just as much undermined [with dynamite] today as ever.And this is the old chart room for he long-range guns.The guns are gone, but the charts are still here.There, in the chart room for long-range guns, staged in front of a large illuminated sheet of graph paper, Poelzig flips another light switch.