He uses his power to transform the dark hulking guards into agile dancers who fall into step behind him for a dance number, which leads into the song, "We Are Here to Change the World". Hooter manages to repair his instrument and sends out a blast of music, providing EO with the power to throw off the guards. The spell broken, the Supreme Leader orders her guards to capture Captain EO and his crew. As Hooter runs toward his instrument, he trips over EO's cape and breaks it, stopping the music. The two robot members of the crew transform into musical instruments, and the crew members begin to play the various instruments. Before being sent away, Captain EO tells the Supreme Leader that he sees the beauty hidden within her, and that he brings her the key to unlock it: his song, "We Are Here to Change the World".
She sentences the crew to be turned into trash cans, and Captain EO to 100 years of torture in her deepest dungeon. Upon arriving on the planet, the crew is captured by the henchmen of the Supreme Leader, and brought before her. Captain EO's alien crew consists of his small flying sidekick Fuzzball, the double-headed navigator and pilot Geek (Idy and Ody), robotic security officer Major Domo, a small robot, Minor Domo (who fits like a module into Major Domo), and the clumsy elephant-like shipmate Hooter, who always manages to upset the crew's missions. The film tells the story of Captain EO and the ragtag crew of his spaceship on a mission to deliver a gift to "The Supreme Leader", who lives on a world of rotting, twisted metal and steaming vents. Captain EO is regarded as one of the first "4D" films (4D being the name given to a 3D film that incorporates in-theater effects, such as lasers, smoke, etc., synchronized to the film). The score was written by James Horner and featured two songs ("We Are Here to Change the World" and " Another Part of Me"), both written and performed by Michael Jackson.Ĭinematographer Vittorio Storaro was the lighting director during much of the principal photography.
Lemorande also initially designed and created two of the creatures, and was an editor of the film. It was choreographed by Jeffrey Hornaday and Michael Jackson, photographed by Peter Anderson, produced by Rusty Lemorande and written by Lemorande, Lucas and Coppola, from a story idea by the artists of Walt Disney Imagineering. The film's executive producer was George Lucas. The film was shown for the final time at Epcot on December 6, 2015. The attraction returned to the Disney Parks in 2010 as a tribute after Jackson's death. The film was shown as part of an attraction with in-theater effects.
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The movie stars Michael Jackson, was written by George Lucas, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (who came up with the name "Captain EO" from the Greek, cf. Captain EO was a 1986 American 3D science fiction short film shown at Disney theme parks from 1986 through 1998.