Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: humanoid alien comes to Earth to take water back to home planet, Fact2: wealth is needed to construct space vehicle with intention of shipping water back to home planet, Fact3: She and Newton live in house, Fact4: Newton has built to where he landed in New Mexico house, Fact5: Dr. Nathan Bryce has landed job as fuel technician with World Enterprises
Output (English): Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing a catastrophic drought. Throughout the film are brief sequences of his wife and children back on his home planet, suffering, perhaps dying. Newton uses the advanced technology of his home planet to patent many inventions on Earth, and acquires tremendous wealth as the head of a technologybased conglomerate, World Enterprises Corporation, aided by leading patent attorney Oliver Farnsworth. His wealth is needed to construct a space vehicle with the intention of shipping water back to his home planet. While revisiting New Mexico, he meets MaryLou, a lonely, unloved, and simple girl who works as a maid, bellhop, and elevator operator in a small hotel; he tells her he is English. MaryLou introduces Newton to many customs of Earth, including churchgoing, alcohol, and sex. She and Newton live together in a house Newton has built close to where he first landed in New Mexico. Meanwhile, Dr. Nathan Bryce, a former womaniser and college professor, has landed a job as a fuel technician with World Enterprises and slowly becomes Newtons confidant. Bryce senses Newtons alienness and arranges a meeting with Newton at his home where he has hidden a special Xray camera. When he steals a picture of Newton with the camera, it reveals Newtons alien physiology. Newtons appetite for alcohol and television he watches multiple televisions at once becomes crippling and he and MaryLou fight. Realizing that Bryce has learnt his secret, Newton reveals his alien form to MaryLou, and her resulting reaction is one of pure shock and horror. He leaves her. Newton completes the spaceship and attempts to take it on its maiden voyage amid intense press exposure. However, just before his scheduled takeoff, he is seized and detained, apparently by the government and a rival company; his business partner, Farnsworth, is murdered. The government, which has apparently been told by Bryce that Newton is an alien, holds him captive in a locked luxury apartment, constructed deep within a hotel. During his stay, they keep him sedated with alcohol to which he has become addicted and continuously subject him to rigorous medical tests – notably one involving Xrays which causes the contact lenses he wears as part of his human disguise to permanently affix themselves to his eyes. Toward the end of his years of captivity, he is visited again by MaryLou, who is now much older and whose looks have been ravaged by alcohol and time. They have mockviolent, playful sex that involves firing a gun with blanks, and afterwards occupy their time drinking and playing table tennis. MaryLou declares that she no longer loves him, while he says that he doesnt love her either. She leaves him. Eventually Newton discovers that his prison, now derelict, is unlocked, and he leaves. Unable to return home, a broken and alcoholic Newton creates a recording with alien messages, which he hopes will be broadcast via radio to his home planet. Bryce, who has since married MaryLou, buys a copy of the album and meets Newton at an outside restaurant in town. Newton is still rich and young looking despite the passage of many years. However, Newton has also fallen into depression and alcoholism and the film ends with an inebriated Newton passing out in his cafe chair.