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TOP SCHOLAR: David Fletcher
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| Review Summary |
Harvard research scientist Professor Eddie Jessup (Hurt) is experimenting with a water isolation tank, floating nude in complete deprivation of sight, sound, touch, or smell. Using the water tank and psychedelic drugs seems to turn his molecular structure backward in evolutionary time. He is hooked up to monitors to record the vital life signs he experiences while in the tank. Strangely aberrant readings emit from the tank; heightened breathing, pulse, brain activity, etc.
His wife Emily (Brown) and colleague Mason Parrish (Haig) are concerned about the research and where it is leading Jessup. He travels to the American Southwest as part of his research and he ingests a hallucinogenic mixture supplied by the local Indian medicine man. He travels outside his own consciousness. He finds when he returns back to the university and uses the isolation tank again he devolves into a primitive state of being where he is now a small ape-man. Brandishing a club, he attacks a guard and runs amok. He wakes up in the ape house at a local zoo with blood around his mouth. Hurt finally devolves into glowing fundamental molecular matter and is only brought back by the tactile embrace of his wife.
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Character operated on/altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- Bioformed into another form of life
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/medium straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- Very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- ample chest & buttocks (female)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Desert?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- lab
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Tone of movie
- spiritual
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vauge references only
- kissing
- seeing nude female butt
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
Is this movie based on a
- book
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