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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

J. Patrick McNamara: Project Leader

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

J. Patrick McNamara credited as playing...

Project Leader

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  • Project Leader: If everything's ready here on the Dark Side of the Moon... play the five tones.
  • Project Leader: He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.
  • David Laughlin: Who flies crates like these anymore?
  • Project Leader: No one. These planes were reported missing in 1945.
  • Project Leader: [over a loudspeaker at The Dark Side of the Moon] Could we have the lights in the arena down 60 percent, please... 60 percent.
  • [the lights go down and running lights turn on one at a time up the runway]
  • Project Leader: I don't think we could have asked for a more beautiful evening, do you? Okay, watch the skies please... We now show uncorrelated targets approaching from the north-northwest.
  • David Laughlin: I don't believe it. I don't believe it! I don't believe it.
  • Project Leader: It's the Cotopaxi.
  • David Laughlin: Why is it here?
  • Project Leader: Beats the *shit* out of me.
  • Project Leader: Take everything from the lady. Follow her pattern note for note.
  • ARP Musician: What are we saying to each other?
  • Project Leader: It seems they're trying to teach us a basic tonal vocabulary.

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