impede his progress. The shell dwellers' marginal social status and proximity to ecological disaster recalls farm-worker vulnerability to pesticides and the UFW’s campaigns against them. The fact that the characters were played by little people with dark hair and beards (features that have been partly obscured in Lucas's revision of the film represented above, where the human actors are replaced with CGI apes) recalls historical representations of Mexican farm workers as small in stature and hence constitutionally well suited for so-called “stoop labor.” Similarly, the shell dwellers are dehumanized within the narrative (human characters react with visceral disgust to their perceived smell) and soundtrack (their voices are supplied by recordings of bears and apes) in ways that recall depictions of farm workers as dirty and animalistic. Ultimately, the freedom and individuality of the film’s white male hero depends on the distance he puts between himself and the shell dweller as farm worker.