He wrote this out in writing, put the paper in a box with some of our little tokens and things, then sent it off in a balloon he'd found while on the garbage route.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.Outside, he couple are greeted by rice-throwers and soon pull away in Michael's borrowed white Caddy, now decorated with pink crepe-paper flowers and streamers.To everyone's shock and amazement, Polish onlookers gazed and gawked in awe in the direction of a uniformed, mustached Adolf Hitler, the infamous Nazi dictator, who calmly strolled down the busy Warsaw sidewalk, and stopped in front ofJ...Joe died flying, didn't he? That was his job.He just wasn't good enough.That's why he got it.Dutchy: I ain't built like you are, Geoff.I shouldn't be in such a business.We can't go on like that...Oh, Geoff! You're a hard man, much too hard.Geoff: Cut it out...Cut it out!..What's the use of feeling bad about something that couldn't be helped?...I told you, Joe just wasn't good enough.If he hadn't got it tonight, he was bound to get it sooner or later.Dutchy: Then you had no business to let him fly.Geoff: What, ground that kid? Say, he'd sooner be where he is than quit.Revealing his own deeper, inner feelings and sympathy, Geoff offers to send Joe's sister in the States $100 that he owes him - but Dutchy knows better: "You don't owe him no money, Geoff.