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The Covid-19 pandemic
came as a surprise to some,
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but horror films have sounded
the alarm for decades.
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What "Contagion" did perfect
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was to show us that the
deadliest infection is fear.
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It was an upsetting movie
when there was no pandemic.
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And it was even more upsetting
during the pandemic.
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I remember when we shot
"12 Monkeys,"
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and you'd use a "What if?"
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You won't think I'm crazy when
people start dying next month.
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You think it can't possibly
happen.
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No...!
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When it comes to
an infected people movie,
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probably my very favorite is
David Cronenberg's "Rabid."
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The idea of sexually
transmitted diseases
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and sex being the thing
that destroys you.
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"," I think,
was genuinely terrifying.
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It was just raw
and real and felt like,
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oh, that could be happening
down the street, tomorrow.
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That's the pernicious
element of a disease.
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All the weapons of mankind
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are helpless before it, you
know, you can't bomb a disease.
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Oh, God!
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You can't see it, you don't
know where it is or when
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it's present or how dangerous
it is or when it might strike.
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But you have to be on guard
all of the time.
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Horror stories are built
around our fear of threats
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we know exist, but can't stop...
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and the threats
we don't know about
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until it's too late.
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Pathogens inspire
both kinds of fear.
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At first we don't know
what's killing us,
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then we realize an invisible
monster is on the loose,
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and it's coming for everyone.
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In horror, these diseases
often come wrapped
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in a supernatural clothing.
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But when COVID-19 brought
the world to a standstill,
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many people sought out the films
that seemed closest to reality.
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At the top of the pandemic,
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I was seeing
so many people online,
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purposely watching pandemic
and zombie movies.
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And that says something
about our psyche...
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That when we are at
our lowest point,
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we want to poke that.
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"Outbreak," from 1995,
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follows the trail
of an Ebola-like virus
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brought to America
by a black market monkey.
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Sirs... Mr. Motaba.
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Help!
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Oh, God!
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"Outbreak" is one of
the first of what you may call
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semi-realistic plague films.
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I wouldn't say entirely,
because it goes nuts
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in the last half hour, but it's
essentially kind of
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a look at how plague might
actually operate
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in the modern world.
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And I think it was a really
underrated film because
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that was the first time
a lot of moviegoers thought,
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"Oh, yeah, this
actually could happen."
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You had the monkey, you had
the sneezing in the theater.
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And you had these,
these visual expressions that
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taught people, like, oh,
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, it's actually dangerous
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to be a human being
and have lungs
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that can absorb bacteria
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in a way that can destroy
our entire system.
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Don't tell me
when I need sleep, Casey,
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I don't tell you
when you need sleep.
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For every person who gets sick,
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how many other people
are they likely to infect?
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I feel like "Contagion" really
brought that to the next level
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and included a scientific aspect
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of the storytelling that an
outbreak was really rudimentary.
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"Contagion" is the first movie
that made me aware
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of how an epidemic spread.
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And Scott Z. Burns' script
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and the way it's executed
by Steven Soderbergh,
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it's just right on the money.
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"Contagion" begins as a woman,
played by Gwyneth Paltrow,
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returns home to Minnesota
after a business trip to China.
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She's been infected with
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a highly contagious
respiratory virus
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that she unknowingly
spreads everywhere she goes.
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As the number of deaths
exponentially rise,
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it becomes a race against time
to figure out how to stop
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the virus before
the human race is decimated.
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When I started the project,
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my hope was that I could write
a movie that was,
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in some ways,
a '70s-era disaster movie
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where we had this big,
star-studded cast.
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But what I wanted to do was
sort of Trojan Horse that idea
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and fill it with science.
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Somewhere in the world
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the wrong pig
met up with the wrong bat.
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Have you ever seen anything
like this before?
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No.
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One of the great things about
the all-star cast
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is that it made it really
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easy for an audience to track
the overlapping stories.
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You knew when you were with
Marion Cotillard,
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you were in the World
Health Organization story.
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You knew that when you were with
Kate Winslet,
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you were in the CDC epidemiology
domestic policy story.
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You knew that Laurence Fishburne
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represented both
the CDC and government
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and the intersection
of that, you know,
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Matt Damon was all of us.
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Borrowing a page from
Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho"...
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Honey?
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"Contagion" throws its
audience off-balance by killing
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one of its biggest stars in the
first 10 minutes of the film.
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Let's get a line in her.
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I think one of
the best scenes in the movie,
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and it's a brilliant piece
of acting,
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but it's, like, incredibly sad
but very plausible,
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is when Matt Damon
is in hospital
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and is informed of
his wife's death.
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- She failed to respond.
- Okay, and?
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Her heart stopped and,
unfortunately, she did die.
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Right.
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And he doesn't hear it,
he can't process it.
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Okay, so can I go talk to her?
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Mr. Emhoff, I'm sorry,
your wife is dead.
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There's no doubt that
"Contagion" is a horror film,
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but it's so artfully done,
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it's so intelligent,
so well-written,
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it has such an enormous
star cast that I think people
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who dislike horror try to steal
it and say, oh, it's actually
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a drama... it's a horror film.
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And the proof is when
they peel off
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Gwyneth Paltrow's face,
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open up the top her skull
and look inside
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and there's nothing
but goop in there.
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My wife makes me take off
my clothes in the garage
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and she leaves out a bucket
of warm water and some soap,
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and then she douses everything
in hand sanitizer after I leave.
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I mean,
she's overreacting, right?
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Not really.
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What I was hoping for was to
get to a place where reality
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was scarier than, than fiction,
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and so I was very interested
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in what human beings
perceive as dangerous.
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What's that, fomites?
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It refers to
transmission from surfaces.
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As opposed to what really is.
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The average person
touches their face
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two or three
thousand times a day.
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Two or three thousand times
a day?
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Three to five times
every waking minute.
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It turns out it tends
to be our, our, our habits
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and our lack of willpower
that is probably
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a greater existential threat.
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What's your temperature?
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101.8.
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Steven Soderbergh
peoples the film with, like,
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very famous actors and says,
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dead, alive, dead, alive,
dead, alive, dead, alive.
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I'm sorry I couldn't finish.
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Just because
Kate Winslet's a big name
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doesn't mean
she's gonna make it.
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It's a brilliant way to look
at it because you kind of think,
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I'm gonna be okay,
my family's gonna be okay...
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Oh, wait, my brother's dead?
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How is that possible?
How can I be immune and him not?
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If the film seems prophetic,
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it's because writer Scott Burns
consulted with virologists
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and public policy makers
to work out how a novel pathogen
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could come into the world,
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and what would happen if it did.
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It was so prophetic,
it was so dead-on,
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it didn't miss a single trick.
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Everything that it imagined
happening happened,
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with only a few tiny exceptions.
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Right now, our best defense
has been social distancing...
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No hand shaking,
staying home when you're sick,
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washing your hands frequently.
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It anticipated a lot of
the crazy conspiracy theories...
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You've got Jude Law
selling Forsythia to suckers.
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What does Forsythia do?
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It's the cure.
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It think it's a really
brilliant film,
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I'm not surprised that a lot of
people watched it, like,
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either for the first time or,
like me, a second time around,
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slack-jawed with horror, like,
oh, , here we go.
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When did we run out of
body bags?
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Two days ago.
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"Contagion" showed us humanity
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at the brink of
a viral apocalypse.
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What if we went over the edge,
and into the void?
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You've gotta think I'm
addicted, haven't you, Cole?
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To that dying world?
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I just wanna do my part,
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to get us back on top,
in charge of the planet.
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In 1995, a romance
about a weaponized virus
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wiping out humanity
came to the screen...
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Five billion people died
in 1996 and 1997.
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Terry Gilliam's
"12 Monkeys."
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Are you going to save us,
Mr. Cole?
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I can't save you... nobody can.
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"12 Monkeys" is based on
"La Jetée," by Chris Marker,
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who was a French filmmaker, and
he took a really unique concept
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of using stills...
Still images... to convey the arc
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of a love story and a man's
witnessing his own death.
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And "12 Monkeys" took that story
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and made a feature film from it.
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Bruce Willis plays James Cole,
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a convict
in the virus-wrecked future.
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James Cole,
cleared from quarantine.
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Cole is sent back in time
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to find the source of
the contagion.
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But he winds up
in a mental institution,
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where he meets psychiatrist
Kathryn Railly,
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played by Madeleine Stowe.
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What year is this?
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What year do you think it is?
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1996.
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That's the future, James.
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Do you think you're living
in the future?
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I was very familiar with Terry
and his sense of displacement
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and disorientation
that permeated his movies,
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and I was dying to work
with him.
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There were some
challenging days,
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and part of the challenge,
quite frankly,
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was he was dealing with
a movie star in Bruce...
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This is it, James,
what you've been working for.
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Women will want to
get to know you.
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I don't want your women!
I want to get well!
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In the end, he became
very surprised with what Bruce
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was doing, which was this
wonderful sort of pure,
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childlike thing.
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People can't travel back
in time, "Whoop! Whoop!"
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Uh-uh. Not here.
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He was just very pure, and
that's perfect for the movie
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because it's actually told from
a child's point of view.
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The scenes set in the past
were shot on location
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in Philadelphia, which helps to
give the film its unique look.
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It was not a great time
for cities period,
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but Philadelphia,
it was really rough.
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He went to corners of the city
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that filmmakers
were not going to.
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You know, for him it was just,
you know, as an artist,
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a great palette for him.
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Maybe the human race
deserves to be wiped out.
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Wiping out the human race?
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That's a great idea.
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In his first Academy
Award-nominated performance,
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Brad Pitt plays a mental patient
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with mysterious ties
to the pandemic.
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- Jeffrey?
- Mm-hmm.
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You're completely insane.
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He seems to be the engineer
of the apocalypse...
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No, I'm not.
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But that's
deliberate misdirection.
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The real threat
is a rogue scientist
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played by David Morse.
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He plans to release a highly
infectious airborne pathogen
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across the world.
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He was talking to me about
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that scene, you know,
in the airport in "12 Monkeys."
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Do you mind
letting me have a look
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at the contents
of your bag, please?
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Please.
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Probably my favorite part
of it was the moment
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going through security and
didn't want to open the vial,
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I guess, or the bottle.
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It doesn't... even...
have an odor.
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That's not necessary, sir.
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And just the realization
of what's going to happen
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if they do that.
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Cole tries to stop him
and change history.
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No...!
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But the past can't be changed.
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The story of the film
is that time is a circle,
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and that things fold in
on themself and then
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Bruce Willis' character is
haunted by a traumatic event
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that he witnessed as a child,
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and then at the end
of the movie we realize
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that the traumatic event was
caused by him as an adult.
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It's a very smartly told
narrative because at the center
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of it, you think, oh, that's
just the romance and you need
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a romance in this type of story,
but really, that's what
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the movie is about, is these
two human beings being human
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and that is coming to an end
and that's worth saving.
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Without that love story,
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how much does Coles'
journey really matter?
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How much does the end of the
world really matter?
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Right, you know, I mean, we're
here for a reason, you know?
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I like to think it's to
love each other, so...
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Infections based in reality
are frightening.
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When you add a touch of
the supernatural,
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they can be absolutely
terrifying.
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- Who's chasing you?
- My mom.
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My dad.
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They're trying to kill me.
Amen.
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Zombie infection films
take our fears of contagion
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and give them teeth.
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Two of the most original
and unforgettable twists
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on the genre are
"Pontypool," from Canada.
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And "" from Spain.
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"" Is a masterpiece.
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It really was the first
docu-style film
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since "Blair Witch"
that I thought was, like,
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legitimately terrifying.
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"" Is all found footage
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through the lens
of this journalist
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following just a regular,
good, old night at the job
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with these firefighters.
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Until they get this call
at this building.
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But there's a woman that's in
a little bit of trouble...
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Maybe she's sick...
And the moment
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that the firefighter team gets
there, to this building,
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everybody's already in panic.
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And then suddenly,
once the firefighters
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and this journalist
go all the way in, man,
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that's when all hell breaks
loose, that there's an infection
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spreading really fast
in the building.
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"" Scared the out of me.
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I was just completely shocked,
captivated, appalled,
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the moment when they walk
into that apartment and that
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old woman in a nightgown comes
running at the camera.
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It was just so shocking,
and we'd seen
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a lot of found footage films
up to this point,
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but this did
something different with it.
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It had looked like we were
following real people.
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No known actors or added score
or anything like that,
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it was all use of diegetic
sounds, all of it.
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It's an incredible use of what's
actually on the frame
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and enhancing those sounds...
The echo in the building,
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when you hear at the top story,
"Whaaaap."
329
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And a firefighter
had just got thrown
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off the top floor,
all the way down.
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That echo and that use of
sound design
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really makes an audience
feel like we're there.
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Found footage
became part of the horror,
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it became part of really
using the camera
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to show the isolation.
336
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It uses it so well in the final
scene where we're hurting
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for light, and so then we get
this limited view where she goes
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into night vision and we are
experiencing the exact same
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limited periphery
that the character is.
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That last scene,
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when she's in that room
and there's something
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in there with her and you
realize this is patient zero.
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This is the thing
that started it,
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whatever experiment led to
this person being infected,
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that they've had it longer
than anyone
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and that's what's
spreading it to everybody.
347
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And it's just the scariest,
most awful looking thing,
348
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it's just everyone's
worst nightmare.
349
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"" May be the most
terrifying zombie infection film
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of recent times...
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but "Pontypool"
is the most unusual.
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Grant, Grant, Grant...
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Stephen McHattie
plays a talk radio personality
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in a small Canadian town...
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Pontypool, good morning.
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You know, I want to talk to you
about something
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that has been buggin' me.
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Who slowly begins to
realize he's broadcasting
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from the epicenter
of a rage zombie outbreak.
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Pontypool's under quarantine.
361
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Everybody has to stay inside
at all times.
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"Pontypool" is a really
fascinating and different
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kind of infection
because it's not airborne,
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there's no real way of
understanding the transmission
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because it's just through
the spoken language.
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I'm going to go see
if Mr. Mazzy's missing...
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missing, missing.
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Where you say a word and then
they keep saying that word
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over and over and over again
and then it starts spreading
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00:21:09,485 --> 00:21:10,921
from person to person.
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Prah, prah, prah, prah, prah...
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You say something, you're
unknowingly infecting them
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with this virus
that's making them insane.
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It is the ultimate
low-budget movie
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in that you never leave
this radio studio.
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And there's a massive infection
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taking place outside the studio,
in the real world,
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and other than
a handful of the infected,
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you never really see them.
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It's a movie as a radio play.
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People need to know,
we have to get this out.
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Well, it's your call,
Mr. Mazzy.
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00:21:52,615 --> 00:21:54,661
Let's just hope
what you're getting out there
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isn't going to destroy
your world.
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00:21:58,621 --> 00:22:00,077
When it came out
it seemed something very alien,
386
00:22:00,101 --> 00:22:01,557
like how can a word
or a phrase be something
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00:22:01,581 --> 00:22:03,452
that could actually hurt you?
388
00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:06,368
And now social media, of course,
has come such a long way since
389
00:22:06,412 --> 00:22:08,239
that movie came out,
it's all about words,
390
00:22:08,283 --> 00:22:09,913
it's so violent right now
that if you just say
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the wrong thing to someone,
like, boom,
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00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:13,656
you know, all you do
is say one sentence and suddenly
393
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,291
you've got people rioting
in the capitol building.
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So that's, I think "Pontypool,"
in that way,
395
00:22:18,206 --> 00:22:19,903
is very ahead of its time.
396
00:22:19,947 --> 00:22:21,818
I am trying
to piss a few people off
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00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:25,126
because that's how it's done,
simple as that.
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00:22:26,562 --> 00:22:29,391
Infections take many forms...
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None more unnerving
than the sexual parasites
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00:22:32,133 --> 00:22:35,354
infesting the early films
of David Cronenberg.
401
00:22:43,274 --> 00:22:45,625
Of all the infections
human beings can endure...
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00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,064
sexually transmitted diseases
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00:22:50,107 --> 00:22:52,022
induce the most squirms.
404
00:22:53,981 --> 00:22:57,332
One trailblazing filmmaker,
David Cronenberg,
405
00:22:57,376 --> 00:23:00,335
brought venereal horror
to the screen.
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00:23:02,685 --> 00:23:04,774
At the beginning
of his long career
407
00:23:04,818 --> 00:23:09,126
he made two influential films
that traumatized a generation.
408
00:23:09,170 --> 00:23:11,607
The first was "Shivers."
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00:23:11,651 --> 00:23:12,695
Ew!
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00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,189
"Shivers"...
Initially released in America
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00:23:28,232 --> 00:23:31,279
as "They Came From Within"...
Chronicles the spread
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00:23:31,322 --> 00:23:33,716
of genetically engineered
parasites
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inside a high-rise
apartment building.
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- Ooh!
- Oh!
415
00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:40,419
Ooh, good heavens.
416
00:23:42,377 --> 00:23:44,901
The parasites turn
mild-mannered Canadians
417
00:23:44,945 --> 00:23:47,121
into crazed sex fiends.
418
00:23:47,164 --> 00:23:49,384
I'm hungry for love!
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00:23:51,517 --> 00:23:53,562
A combination of aphrodisiac
420
00:23:53,606 --> 00:23:56,435
and venereal disease, it will
hopefully turn the world
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00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:59,089
into one beautiful,
mindless orgy.
422
00:24:01,918 --> 00:24:05,052
Well, I think it sounds
a little crazy to me.
423
00:24:05,095 --> 00:24:09,186
Roger, I had a very disturbing
dream last night.
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00:24:09,230 --> 00:24:14,409
In this dream, I found myself
making love to a strange man.
425
00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:16,803
"Shivers"
or "They Came From Within"
426
00:24:16,846 --> 00:24:20,459
is one of the absolute perfect
films from David Cronenberg,
427
00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:22,635
and it's one of his first.
428
00:24:26,552 --> 00:24:29,119
It's psychosexual, it's twisted,
429
00:24:29,163 --> 00:24:31,861
it brings in all of these
elements of body horror,
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00:24:31,905 --> 00:24:35,430
and it is beautifully
post-1960s.
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00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:42,263
That was a plague film
of its time
432
00:24:42,306 --> 00:24:44,308
because that was
the sexual revolution,
433
00:24:44,352 --> 00:24:46,963
that was when Baby Boomers were
suddenly waking up to the idea
434
00:24:47,007 --> 00:24:50,401
that you can boink someone
that you weren't married to.
435
00:24:53,013 --> 00:24:55,668
And that was a very big deal
to that generation,
436
00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:59,759
so you had to have a plague that
could make you do something
437
00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:02,326
as crazy as have sex
out of wedlock.
438
00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:16,689
It culminates
in this completely abhorrent
439
00:25:16,732 --> 00:25:19,779
orgy pool scene.
440
00:25:19,822 --> 00:25:22,521
Somehow even though
you don't really see much,
441
00:25:22,564 --> 00:25:25,001
it feels like you are
seeing everything.
442
00:25:28,178 --> 00:25:31,138
I think the end of "Shivers"
is really terrifying,
443
00:25:31,181 --> 00:25:33,290
when they had that slow motion
shot of them in the pool
444
00:25:33,314 --> 00:25:35,577
and her kissing him...
445
00:25:35,621 --> 00:25:38,319
The music and everything...
Really disturbing.
446
00:25:41,409 --> 00:25:42,976
Are these people victims?
447
00:25:43,019 --> 00:25:44,954
Or have they been liberated
from the straightjacket
448
00:25:44,978 --> 00:25:48,024
of their lonely
middle-class lives?
449
00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,940
Cronenberg's subversive mission
is to make us question
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00:25:50,984 --> 00:25:53,682
our assumptions
about our true natures.
451
00:25:57,817 --> 00:25:59,296
His next film, "Rabid,"
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00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:02,212
was a kind of sequel
to "Shivers."
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00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:04,475
Instead of confining the action
to one building,
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00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,739
he follows the spread
of a nasty new form
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00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:08,697
of rabies across Quebec.
456
00:26:14,485 --> 00:26:16,226
The source of the contagion
is Rose,
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00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:19,012
played by Marilyn Chambers.
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00:26:19,055 --> 00:26:23,277
After an accident, Rose receives
experimental skin grafts
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00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,366
from a pioneering
plastic surgeon.
460
00:26:28,761 --> 00:26:30,327
All right,
you hold it right there.
461
00:26:30,371 --> 00:26:32,634
The procedure restores her body,
462
00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:35,158
but gives her
a little something extra...
463
00:26:35,202 --> 00:26:37,857
A blood-sucking stinger
under her armpit.
464
00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:48,955
Anyone she feeds on will
become a bloodthirsty cannibal.
465
00:26:53,394 --> 00:26:54,850
I remember watching it
and like, oh,
466
00:26:54,874 --> 00:26:56,474
this is pretty good,
going along with it.
467
00:26:58,791 --> 00:27:00,793
Like, wow, this is getting
a little rougher
468
00:27:00,836 --> 00:27:02,098
than I was expecting.
469
00:27:03,709 --> 00:27:06,581
But when
the operation scene happens
470
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,671
and the doctor takes
the nurse's finger
471
00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:13,414
and cuts it off
with the scissors.
472
00:27:18,724 --> 00:27:20,726
Oh, my God!
What am I watching?
473
00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:25,644
In "Rabid,"
what was scary about it
474
00:27:25,687 --> 00:27:28,821
was to see how quickly
infections spread.
475
00:27:36,916 --> 00:27:39,266
Even if you set off
a nuke on a city,
476
00:27:39,309 --> 00:27:41,703
if you live outside the city,
you're gonna be okay.
477
00:27:41,747 --> 00:27:45,707
But imagine setting off a nuke
that then makes more nukes.
478
00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:48,797
I'm in terrible trouble,
you gotta help me.
479
00:27:48,841 --> 00:27:53,149
Marilyn Chambers didn't even
know that she was Typhoid Mary
480
00:27:53,193 --> 00:27:55,717
until it was too late...
481
00:27:55,761 --> 00:27:58,807
That's what's so scary about
being a spreader... you don't
482
00:27:58,851 --> 00:28:03,072
even know you're a spreader
until you've already spread.
483
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,206
I'm afraid!
484
00:28:06,249 --> 00:28:08,077
As the pandemic rages,
485
00:28:08,121 --> 00:28:09,949
Rose falls victim
to one of the infected.
486
00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:17,521
She becomes just another corpse
to be disposed of.
487
00:28:20,655 --> 00:28:24,441
Plagues have ravaged mankind
for centuries.
488
00:28:24,485 --> 00:28:25,921
Pull!
489
00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:27,594
But there have always been
those who think
490
00:28:27,618 --> 00:28:29,533
it could never happen to them.
491
00:28:35,191 --> 00:28:39,326
In the early 1960s,
director/producer Roger Corman
492
00:28:39,369 --> 00:28:41,763
made the jump from low-budget
black-and-white films
493
00:28:41,807 --> 00:28:44,505
to the slightly-bigger-budgeted
color films
494
00:28:44,548 --> 00:28:46,681
based on the gothic horror
of Edgar Allan Poe.
495
00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:50,685
To help sell the pictures,
496
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:54,341
Corman brought in
veteran actor Vincent Price.
497
00:28:56,778 --> 00:28:59,868
The Poe films made Price
a horror icon.
498
00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:05,134
Vincent Price
was wonderful to work with...
499
00:29:05,178 --> 00:29:08,964
He was a highly intelligent,
educated man,
500
00:29:09,008 --> 00:29:11,793
he'd graduated from Yale.
501
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,755
The razor edge of death.
502
00:29:16,798 --> 00:29:20,628
Thus the condition of man.
503
00:29:20,671 --> 00:29:25,154
Bound on an island from which
he can never hope to escape.
504
00:29:25,198 --> 00:29:29,115
So he came with
great intelligence
505
00:29:29,158 --> 00:29:33,075
and a classical training
as an actor.
506
00:29:36,687 --> 00:29:38,385
What is the meaning of this?
507
00:29:38,428 --> 00:29:41,127
Probably the very first
of the films,
508
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:43,825
"The Fall of
the House of Usher."
509
00:29:43,869 --> 00:29:46,088
How dare you admit anyone
into this house?
510
00:29:46,132 --> 00:29:49,178
I think it was one of
his best performances.
511
00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:51,224
Be done!
512
00:29:51,267 --> 00:29:53,966
That and the first film
we shot in England,
513
00:29:54,009 --> 00:29:56,185
which was
"Masque of the Red Death."
514
00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:59,493
The village is full of
the Red Death.
515
00:29:59,536 --> 00:30:01,843
The Red Death?
516
00:30:01,887 --> 00:30:05,238
Prince Prospero,
I beg you, allow us haven!
517
00:30:05,281 --> 00:30:06,805
I beg sanctuary!
518
00:30:06,848 --> 00:30:08,807
This is no church.
519
00:30:10,156 --> 00:30:11,611
"The Masque of the Red Death"
is, you know,
520
00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:15,422
a terrific movie, I think,
it seems to be the pinnacle
521
00:30:15,465 --> 00:30:18,425
of the Edgar Allan Poe series
that Roger Corman did
522
00:30:18,468 --> 00:30:22,733
because he was in England
and he had access to more time
523
00:30:22,777 --> 00:30:24,735
and a bit more money.
524
00:30:24,779 --> 00:30:27,303
He'd been very influenced,
shall we say,
525
00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:29,064
by "The Seventh Seal," which was
a huge art house hit at the time
526
00:30:29,088 --> 00:30:30,785
which, you know,
Ingmar Bergman film,
527
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,269
where you had Death
in a black cloak.
528
00:30:38,532 --> 00:30:41,535
Very symbolic, all about
the Plague, you know,
529
00:30:41,578 --> 00:30:43,406
during the medieval era.
530
00:30:43,450 --> 00:30:45,800
And so he kind of found a way
to filter that
531
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,108
into the Edgar Allan Poe story.
532
00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:56,376
Prince Prospero, who's this
very cruel nobleman who invites
533
00:30:56,419 --> 00:30:58,571
his friends up to his castle
because there's the Red Death,
534
00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:00,835
this plague that's ravaging the
countryside and so they figure,
535
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,122
oh, we'll just cloister
ourselves away and party down
536
00:31:03,165 --> 00:31:05,230
and, you know, when it's all
done and the smoke clears
537
00:31:05,254 --> 00:31:07,866
we'll go out and live our lives.
538
00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:11,695
But because of me, through
my mediation with my master,
539
00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:14,133
the Lord of Flies,
540
00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:19,051
you... all of you...
Unworthy though you may be,
541
00:31:19,094 --> 00:31:22,141
will be safe from the Red Death.
542
00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:25,685
He shot in beautiful
Technicolor, and that's one of
543
00:31:25,709 --> 00:31:27,886
the most amazing aspects
of the movie, actually,
544
00:31:27,929 --> 00:31:31,846
the cinematography by Nicolas
Roeg... it's just stunning.
545
00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:34,893
The camera's constantly moving
one way or another.
546
00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:38,026
There's a lot of very wide shots
547
00:31:38,070 --> 00:31:40,550
because those sets
allow a lot of scope.
548
00:31:40,594 --> 00:31:42,161
It's just... it's stunning,
549
00:31:42,204 --> 00:31:43,902
it's a really,
really beautiful movie.
550
00:31:45,816 --> 00:31:47,577
And then, of course,
there's Vincent Price, who was,
551
00:31:47,601 --> 00:31:51,518
you know, giving 100 percent
as Prince Prospero
552
00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:55,914
and delightfully cruel
and delightfully hate-able.
553
00:31:58,394 --> 00:31:59,700
You're a madman!
554
00:31:59,743 --> 00:32:02,355
And yet I will live
and you will die.
555
00:32:02,398 --> 00:32:06,707
He played a man of evil,
but there were shadings
556
00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:12,495
of tenderness within him towards
a young girl that he had
557
00:32:12,539 --> 00:32:16,325
taken from the plague-stricken
countryside.
558
00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:19,850
I do not want to hurt you,
my dear.
559
00:32:19,894 --> 00:32:22,070
Can't you understand?
560
00:32:22,114 --> 00:32:24,768
I want to help save your soul
so you can join me
561
00:32:24,812 --> 00:32:26,118
in the glories of Hell.
562
00:32:26,161 --> 00:32:27,771
No! Never!
563
00:32:30,296 --> 00:32:33,429
While the outside world is
ravaged by a plague of the body,
564
00:32:33,473 --> 00:32:37,999
Prospero's castle is infected
by a plague of the spirit.
565
00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:40,741
Demon lover, of all those
566
00:32:40,784 --> 00:32:44,440
who wish to live
in your eternal light,
567
00:32:44,484 --> 00:32:46,442
transcribe the final mark.
568
00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:48,967
This infection isn't
inflicted on its victims...
569
00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:50,925
It's chosen by them.
570
00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:59,151
The orgy of corruption,
cruelty, and depravity
571
00:32:59,194 --> 00:33:02,284
reaches its zenith at
Prospero's masquerade ball,
572
00:33:02,328 --> 00:33:06,201
where everything is permitted,
except wearing the color red.
573
00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:12,338
The one percent
locks themselves up
574
00:33:12,381 --> 00:33:15,036
in the castle and parties,
thinking that, you know,
575
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,734
they're never gonna let
anybody infected in.
576
00:33:17,778 --> 00:33:20,085
And then, of course,
the Grim Reaper gets in.
577
00:33:23,262 --> 00:33:26,787
There's no escape,
is what I got out of that.
578
00:33:28,310 --> 00:33:30,921
I would like to see your face.
579
00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:35,056
There is no face of death
580
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,842
until the moment
of your own death.
581
00:33:40,583 --> 00:33:43,325
Death is the great leveler.
582
00:33:43,369 --> 00:33:46,241
You can be famous, you can
be rich, you could be powerful...
583
00:33:46,285 --> 00:33:48,678
But one thing you're not
going to escape,
584
00:33:48,722 --> 00:33:52,421
and it's an experience
that's common to everybody
585
00:33:52,465 --> 00:33:55,033
who has ever lived
and who ever will live.
586
00:33:55,076 --> 00:33:57,296
Let me see your face.
587
00:34:00,125 --> 00:34:03,084
Your hell, Prince Prospero,
588
00:34:03,128 --> 00:34:06,087
and the moment of your death.
589
00:34:06,131 --> 00:34:08,742
It's the one common
nod of humanity.
590
00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:18,186
The human race is barely able
to cope with disease on Earth.
591
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:21,494
Would we stand a chance against
something not of this Earth?
592
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,241
When you think of
alien invaders,
593
00:34:29,284 --> 00:34:31,025
you might think of this.
594
00:34:40,426 --> 00:34:43,168
But what if the invader
was a virus from space,
595
00:34:43,211 --> 00:34:45,909
something we have
no immunity against?
596
00:34:48,173 --> 00:34:50,740
That's the premise
of "The Andromeda Strain."
597
00:34:52,351 --> 00:34:54,353
Based on the novel
by Michael Crichton,
598
00:34:54,396 --> 00:34:57,573
it's the story of a space probe
that crash lands
599
00:34:57,617 --> 00:35:00,968
in a small town, bringing back
a pathogen that rapidly kills
600
00:35:01,011 --> 00:35:04,798
99.9 percent
of the population,
601
00:35:04,841 --> 00:35:07,148
turning their blood to dust.
602
00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:08,889
Powder.
603
00:35:08,932 --> 00:35:12,066
I'll be damned.
604
00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:15,069
Now an elite team of
scientists must find a cure
605
00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:18,507
before the alien virus
spreads across the Earth.
606
00:35:18,551 --> 00:35:20,335
Never believed this could
really happen.
607
00:35:20,379 --> 00:35:22,207
Well, it has happened.
608
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:26,080
The classic of that genre,
I think, the Big Mamou,
609
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,082
the one that everyone...
They're all judged by
610
00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:29,486
is probably
"The Andromeda Strain."
611
00:35:29,518 --> 00:35:31,955
Uh, yeah, yes.
612
00:35:31,999 --> 00:35:33,759
If you're not talking about
just some weird zombie breakout
613
00:35:33,783 --> 00:35:37,439
happening... you're talking
about, like, oh, a genuine
614
00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:41,226
disease that it could happen and
you're trying to clamp it down,
615
00:35:41,269 --> 00:35:44,011
that's the one that they all get
judged by, I think.
616
00:35:44,054 --> 00:35:45,249
I mean, I love "The Androm..."
617
00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:47,145
What do you think...
What is it about?
618
00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:49,123
It's such a simple movie and
it's so well done, and it just,
619
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:51,845
it's just the pace of that movie
just moves and moves.
620
00:35:55,457 --> 00:35:59,635
I fell in love with, with just
the notion of, you know,
621
00:35:59,679 --> 00:36:02,725
the scene where they're,
like, examining the ship.
622
00:36:02,769 --> 00:36:04,597
What about the bits of green?
623
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,488
And then you just see
the one little green speck
624
00:36:06,512 --> 00:36:11,517
and you're like, wait, that one
little tiny speck of dust
625
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,475
caused all of this.
626
00:36:15,782 --> 00:36:17,523
It's growing.
627
00:36:20,569 --> 00:36:23,529
Perhaps the strangest
infection ever put on film
628
00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:27,663
is the 2020 adaptation
of the H.P. Lovecraft story,
629
00:36:27,707 --> 00:36:29,187
"The Color Out of Space".
630
00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,930
Nicolas Cage plays the patriarch
of an eccentric family
631
00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:36,890
living in an
isolated country house.
632
00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:42,983
One night a meteorite
crashes into their yard,
633
00:36:43,026 --> 00:36:46,247
bringing with it
an unearthly infection.
634
00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:49,294
Teenaged daughter Lavinia is
the only member of the family
635
00:36:49,337 --> 00:36:53,472
who quickly realizes the
meteorite is not what it seems.
636
00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:58,128
It's behind the lightning.
637
00:36:58,172 --> 00:37:00,348
At first it's fascinating
because it's this
638
00:37:00,392 --> 00:37:03,395
beautiful thing... there's that
dichotomy of it being this
639
00:37:03,438 --> 00:37:07,529
gorgeous meteorite that lands
in their front yard and it's
640
00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:11,751
kind of this amazing thing
that's otherworldly.
641
00:37:15,058 --> 00:37:17,626
And then gradually
you see that this is
642
00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:19,976
a very malevolent entity.
643
00:37:23,066 --> 00:37:25,112
Whatever was in the meteorite
infects the land
644
00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:28,158
and transforms the family...
645
00:37:28,202 --> 00:37:32,554
First, their minds...
then, their bodies.
646
00:37:34,556 --> 00:37:37,037
It's like a virus... you can't
see it, you don't know
647
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,605
where it is or when it's present
or how dangerous it is
648
00:37:39,648 --> 00:37:41,302
or when it might strike.
649
00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:43,304
But you have to be on guard
all of the time.
650
00:37:43,348 --> 00:37:44,914
Look out!
651
00:37:44,958 --> 00:37:47,177
The worse things get,
652
00:37:47,221 --> 00:37:49,571
the deeper the father
sinks into denial.
653
00:37:49,615 --> 00:37:51,593
Come on, dad, don't pretend
that you haven't noticed.
654
00:37:51,617 --> 00:37:54,620
Nothing has been this place up.
655
00:37:54,663 --> 00:37:56,535
Why are you so in denial?
656
00:37:56,578 --> 00:37:59,712
Okay, you know,
I've had it with your drama!
657
00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:03,281
The picture features
a classically
658
00:38:03,324 --> 00:38:06,632
unhinged performance
by Nic Cage.
659
00:38:13,508 --> 00:38:15,031
His performance is a stunner,
660
00:38:15,075 --> 00:38:18,600
but in and around that
performance is a story
661
00:38:18,644 --> 00:38:21,342
about a family's
shared sense of reality
662
00:38:21,386 --> 00:38:26,129
being smashed into tinier
and tinier fragments
663
00:38:26,173 --> 00:38:27,696
by an environmental poison
664
00:38:27,740 --> 00:38:29,872
that has leaked into
their well water.
665
00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:34,790
Much of the film is seen from
the point of view of Ward,
666
00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:37,315
a young scientist
who befriends the family.
667
00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:40,143
Jack, what are you up to?
668
00:38:40,187 --> 00:38:41,971
Playing with my friends.
669
00:38:42,015 --> 00:38:45,105
This de facto stand-in for
the infamously racist Lovecraft
670
00:38:45,148 --> 00:38:47,847
is played by a person of color.
671
00:38:47,890 --> 00:38:50,023
I remember Nic
saying a few times
672
00:38:50,066 --> 00:38:53,200
that he'd always wanted to do
a family drama and, for him,
673
00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:55,028
that's what "Color" was.
674
00:38:55,071 --> 00:38:56,769
What do you mean you tried?
675
00:38:56,812 --> 00:39:00,381
Do you have any idea how much
those animals cost us?
676
00:39:00,425 --> 00:39:03,602
They are alpacas... alpacas.
677
00:39:03,645 --> 00:39:05,995
And so that's how
we entered it and I think
678
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:09,390
it's exactly that, it was
a dysfunctional family
679
00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:12,785
in very bizarre circumstances,
680
00:39:12,828 --> 00:39:15,831
and that's what really
gave it its kick.
681
00:39:15,875 --> 00:39:17,572
I can't get a dial tone.
682
00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,270
It becomes body horror,
which is basically
683
00:39:20,314 --> 00:39:23,970
taking something as simple
and intrinsic to our experience
684
00:39:24,013 --> 00:39:27,408
as humans as a mother's embrace
of their own child
685
00:39:27,452 --> 00:39:30,150
and turning that into
something grotesque.
686
00:39:35,198 --> 00:39:38,288
Late in the picture
the llamas out in the garage
687
00:39:38,332 --> 00:39:40,943
all become this one slimy
688
00:39:40,987 --> 00:39:43,250
10-headed grotesque
llama creature.
689
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:48,908
The teen girl is slicing
690
00:39:48,951 --> 00:39:52,520
pentagrams into her flesh.
691
00:39:52,564 --> 00:39:54,653
The father loses his mind.
692
00:39:54,696 --> 00:39:58,004
We've been having a hard time,
you know?
693
00:39:58,047 --> 00:40:01,355
And Lavinia realizes she is
humanity's last line of defense
694
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:04,053
against the color out of space.
695
00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:06,360
It's so beautiful.
696
00:40:08,667 --> 00:40:10,451
It's a progressive spin
on Lovecraft's
697
00:40:10,495 --> 00:40:13,367
relentlessly misanthropic tale.
698
00:40:16,022 --> 00:40:18,546
Lavinia isn't ruined
by the color, rather,
699
00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,243
she's elevated by the color
700
00:40:20,287 --> 00:40:22,463
and she kind of
reaches her true purpose
701
00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:26,380
by willingly
and voluntarily merging
702
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:28,600
with the color
and sacrificing herself
703
00:40:28,643 --> 00:40:31,559
so that the color returns
to its original source.
704
00:40:37,043 --> 00:40:40,089
Only Ward survives, slowly
emerging from the wreckage
705
00:40:40,133 --> 00:40:43,049
into a colorless world.
706
00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:46,182
It came out right before,
you know, Covid...
707
00:40:46,226 --> 00:40:48,533
hit and started impacting
the entire world.
708
00:40:51,536 --> 00:40:53,494
It's absolutely relevant
to today
709
00:40:53,538 --> 00:40:56,323
and I don't know what
the moral of the story is,
710
00:40:56,366 --> 00:40:57,890
because we haven't, you know,
711
00:40:57,933 --> 00:41:00,109
we haven't reached the
conclusion of this one yet.
712
00:41:00,153 --> 00:41:04,505
What touched this place cannot
be quantified or understood
713
00:41:04,549 --> 00:41:06,855
by human science.
714
00:41:06,899 --> 00:41:08,572
And I don't really know
what the moral of the story
715
00:41:08,596 --> 00:41:10,859
of "Color Out of Space"
is, either...
716
00:41:10,903 --> 00:41:14,820
yeah, other than maybe be the
Black guy, for once.
717
00:41:14,863 --> 00:41:16,474
I'll take it.
718
00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:20,608
It was just a color
out of space.
719
00:41:24,743 --> 00:41:26,658
In the movies,
lethal contagions can come
720
00:41:26,701 --> 00:41:31,053
from outer space,
escape from a lab,
721
00:41:31,097 --> 00:41:33,403
or emerge from the rain forest,
722
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:35,623
leaving a trail of the dead
in their wake.
723
00:41:37,799 --> 00:41:40,149
But as films
and real life have shown us,
724
00:41:40,193 --> 00:41:42,108
the human race is resilient.
725
00:41:42,151 --> 00:41:43,457
Boy, I better get vaccinated.
726
00:41:45,154 --> 00:41:48,810
New threats will come,
but we can survive them...
727
00:41:48,854 --> 00:41:50,029
or can we?
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