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Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker, Billy Wirth
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Body Snatchers |
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BODY SNATCHERS is a movie directed by Abel Ferrara in 1993. The film earned a nomination for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
Terry Kinney's family has just moved in a military base where Terry must make some chemical controls for the government. Unfortunately, mean extra-terrestrials have chosen this base to begin the invasion of Earth. They have the ability to become duplicates of humans and they are replacing one by one the occupants of the base. Terry's daughter, Gabrielle Anwar, and a military pilot will try to leave the base in order to warn the world. One of Ferrara's best movies.
--Daniel Staebler, 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 - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Invasion from human defender POV?
- subtle invasion (body snatching, mind control, look-alikes)
War and Invasion
Yes
Major kinds of combat:
- gun battles
Clones/duplicates?
- bad clones/duplicates
Clones/Duplicates?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlng, curly
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Forests?
Yes
Misc settings
- fort/castle
- bar/restaurant
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
- exploding vehicles
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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