The first men in black film (1997) earned $589 million. It made the idea of aliens living among us part of the collective imagination. It also cemented Will Smith's status as a mainstream movie star. But before Smith's character-the tough-talking, charming police officer James Edwards - can become a government agent, he has to undergo a long initiation that ends with the erasure of his civilian identity: Smith places his hands on a large silver sphere that burns off his fingerprints. As if that were all you need to do to make someone biologically untraceable.
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