![]() There are few corners for dirt or dust to accumulate, and the characters’ solid color jumpsuits often seem to blend into the walls as this secret government facility threatens to swallow them up forever. ![]() Everything about these rooms reinforce the sterile nature of the environment. Strangelove and the Connery-era Bond films from a few years earlier, here the plethora of screens, buttons, and scientific equipment are doing their best not to interrupt the circular shape of Wildfire. Likely influenced by Ken Adam’s work on Dr. Levitt were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (they lost to Nicholas and Alexandra) and rightly so. In the years since freshman biology, what has made The Andromeda Strain stay with me is the production design. They try to find the connections between dissimilar things (in this case an old alcohol addict and a crying baby). They hypothesize, gather data, and conduct experiments. We get enough of a glimpse of the death that the mysterious Andromeda is causing to set the stakes for the film, but most of the book and the film focuses on the team of scientists acting out the scientific method. Outbreak, Contagion, The Crazies, and 12 Monkeys are just a few of the non-zombie films in this subgenre, but Robert Wise’s adaptation of The Andromeda Strain stands apart from maybe all but Contagion, spending most of its time as a process movie. Seeing my enthusiasm for the book and this film, which we watched as a class after reading, he also recommended to me the medial science-based thrillers of Robin Cook, which I eagerly devoured.Īside from films like Side Effects, Flatliners, and Coma (directed by Crichton as an adaptation of a Cook novel!), medical thrillers at the movies often mean outbreak movies. Donahue had assigned us a novel outside of our textbook, which was odd, but it was also a Crichton I hadn’t read before, The Andromeda Strain. ![]() When I got to my freshman year biology class, Mr. Obviously the story is still relevant today - maybe even more so then in the late 60s.By Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red HerringĪfter I first became aware of Michael Critchon via Jurassic Park and my love for dinosaurs, I devoured many of his novels in my middle school years: Congo, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead, Airframe, and I remember waiting for my mom to finish Timeline so I could read the hardcover after her. It will be interesting to see what they will do with the remake. This is a story about science not about characters. ![]() I think the casting of ordinary Joes in the leads was very telling. Its not one of those movies where you can stop it and watch the remainder the next day. I've seen the movie now about a dozen times and it still keeps me interested. Robert Wise does a very good job of building the story in a leisurely pace that keep you rivetted. Probably one of the most realistic and suspenseful movies of its kind ever made. Did you expect to see Pentium 4s with DVD Drives? If thats you main criticism then the movie must be good. ![]() Of course it shows its age - this was the 1970s. What ? That's like saying the aircraft in a WWII movie show their age. I'm reading these reviews and I keep seeing the same things. ![]()
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