Plot Outline: A scientist with a potentially fatal health problem takes a risk on his only chance of survival: For five of his colleagues to be miniaturized in a ship and injected into his bloodstream.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087521/
I was seven years old when I saw that movie and she's what I remember most about the film.
IMHO, the main themes of the first movie was the sacredness of life, and how man had no business interfering with it or terminating it.
The villain (Donald Pleasance) was an ardent humanist and atheist (in the pay of the communists) who scoffed at the religious surgeon. The surgeon delivered several homilies on the wonder of God’s creation and his ability to create marvelous life. It was a powerful pro life movie.
Does anyone think Hollywood won’t twist that message?
Here, from the original script.
Couldn’t resist posting this. For those not in the know, Duvall is the surgeon, Grant the hero, and Michaels the villian.
INT. PROTEUS - AT WINDOW
Grant reacts as he sees a peculiar phenomenon: the big-bluish corpuscles which stream past the submarine are turning bright red the instant they impinge against the Capillary Wall. They keep moving on, in a constant flow, taking on their new color during:
GRANT: (amazed)Look at that...they’re changing color...
CORA: (thrilled) Doctor — is it possible? That we’re
seeing it happen before our eyes?
DUVAL:(quietly) Yes, Cora... We’re the very first to see
the living process.
They both look out, too deeply moved to speak. Atter a moment:
GRANT: Mind letting me in on what’s going on out there?
DUVAL: A simple exchange, Mr. Grant. Corpuscles releasing carbon dioxide — the moment they touch the Wall of
the Lung — in return for oxygen coming through
from the other side.
GRANT: Don’t tell me they’re refueling...
DUVAL (almost in a reverie)
Oxygenation...
Cora turns to look at him, feeling close in this shared moment. Grant, too, is moved by Duval’s manner. Michaels glances up from the Lung Map.
DUVAL: (still gazing out) We’ve known it exists —
even though we never saw it...like the structure
of the Atom... But to actually behold one of the
miracles of the Universe — the engineering of the
Cycle of a Breath...
He is too moved to continue.
MICHAELS: (into the silence) Nothing miraculous about it.
Just an interchange of gases. The end product
of five hundred million years of Evolution.
DUVAL: You can’t believe all that’s accidental? That there
isn’t a Creative intelligence at work—
Now, want to bet that Hollywood rewrites it so the religious fanatic is the murderer?
And the director of "Godzilla". Pretty much all you need to know. It will suck big time.
Btw, am I the only one who is sick of Jack Black?
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That was just on the Sci Fi channel last night. I tried to watch it (again) but it was on pretty late, and I wound up falling asleep.
Great movie when it came out... Pretty corny these days.
I don’t know how I feel about a remake. I’m sure they’ll screw it up somehow.
Mark