Douglas Trumbell's visual and special effects of he Mother Ship are spectacular, ushering in - with Lucas'Star Wars (1977)of the same year - a flood of Hollywood films featuring special effects.' Uh, no, let me start this over...an industrial area in Chelsea, with a footbridge over a busy city street (an unused railway line)the Queensboro Bridgethe EMPIRE DINER (on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea)the snow-covered and lamp-lit streets of Park Avenuetrucks on the West Side (with the World Trade Center in the background)crowded streets and a streetside fruit marketpeople waiting to cross a street at an intersection (with a "DON'T WALK" sign)CORNY'Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else.He modestly told the students he was lucky and always had help, and that "facing this stuff in real life is not like school.You can continue your school work, and after hours, work in my store.Lane Norwood (signature)Shortly later in a very brief scene, poor-white worker Sock Fisher (Erville Alderson), Lilly's suitor, responded was suspicions of Norwood's job offer for Marvin as a night clerk in his company's office-store: "He'll use Marvin for his own ends.The scene of Lester's lustful entrancement with the sexpot Angela was remarkable.As Lester watched high up in he bleachers, he began to stare - becoming focused solely on Angela at the center of the group.