Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
- Donald Sutherland: Dr. Matthew Bennell
- Brooke Adams: Elizabeth Driscoll
- Leonard Nimoy: Dr. David Kibner
- Veronica Cartwright Nancy Bellicec
- Jeff Goldblum: Jack Bellicec
- Art Hindle: Dr. Geoffrey Howell
- Lelia Goldoni: Katherine Hendley
Come of the Body Snatchers is an American science fiction film directed by Philip Kaufman from the year 1978. The film is a remake of Don Siegel of the Body Snatchers from the year 1956. Both are based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
As in the previous film replace alien invaders humans by externally identical but unfeeling doppelganger. An employee of the health department in San Francisco comes the invasion on the track and tries to stop them.
Action
Dr. Bennell worked as an inspector of the health department in San Francisco. His assistant Elizabeth tells him that her boyfriend Geoffrey had changed. At a reading of Dr. Kibner, a psychiatrist and author of popular science books, she meets a woman who has also noted a change in her husband. Then discover Bennells Known Nancy and Jack Bellicec a human body, a seemingly perfect Jacks. An alien microorganism takes possession of people while they sleep, using adolescent in large pods duplicates. The duplicate is externally indistinguishable from the original body, which then turns to dust, but devoid of any human feeling and emotion. Bennell, Elizabeth, Nancy and Jack must find that the "exchange" of people progressing rapidly in their environment. First you manage to escape, but towards the end, only Nancy has remained human. She is betrayed by the now also exchanged Bennell.
Background
The venue (San Francisco instead of a Californian town ) and the pessimistic end ( Bennell itself has been " replaced " and now helps keep the remaining " real" people to unmask ) except includes Kaufman's remake many parallels to seal the Body Snatchers:
- The Bennell related Elizabeth ( in the Body Snatchers: Becky ) Driscoll is one of the first who reported a case of how the replaced people in their immediate environment.
- A psychiatrist from Bennells circle ( Dr. Kaufman in the Body Snatchers, Dr. Kibner come into the Body Snatchers ) is doing the reports of exchanged relatives and partners as hysteria from.
- The first duplicate of a human being that gets Bennell to face, is a copy of his friend Jack Bellicec ( Belicec in the Body Snatchers ).
- Telephone companies and state authorities have already been infiltrated and prevent both escape as well as a large-scale warning of the doppelgangers.
- Bennell and Becky / Elizabeth hiding at his workplace, where they. Dr. Kaufman / Dr Kibner and Jack Bellicec be investigated, which extol the virtues of their new, emotionless identity.
- Bennell be his companion alone, temporarily, to see the mass breeding or shipment of peppers from nearby; when he returns, his partner has been replaced.
During the previous film still beat what happens after cloning with the original human bodies, creates the remake clarity on this point: The body crumbled to dust and disposed of by the garbage disposal. Also new is the inhuman ringback, thus drawing attention to the " exchanged " to a discovered " real " people. The film adaptation from 1993 attacked both ideas again.
Kevin McCarthy, who played the lead role in the Body Snatchers, appears briefly in a scene in which he warns Bennell before the looming danger. Don Siegel, the director of the original, can be seen in a scene as a taxi driver. Robert Duvall has a brief appearance without dialogue, as director Philip Kaufman and cinematographer Michael Chapman itself
Other adaptations of the book was followed in 1993 with Body Snatchers - Attack of the Body Snatchers by Abel Ferrara and in 2007 with Invasion by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Reviews
The critics verdict come to the Body Snatchers was mostly positive. Among the critics, who praised the film in the U.S., included, inter alia, Pauline Kael, while Richard Schickel and Roger Ebert negatively expressed. Leonard Maltin described the film as an exciting, but criticized too much of a substantive turns.
Phil Hardy's Aurum Movie Encyclopedia - Science Fiction deemed businessman director who relies too much on shock, to be unsafe.
The lexicon of the International film summed up: "The aligned to external effects staging the deeper dimension of horror story is not detected. "
Awards
- Director Philip Kaufman was awarded the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Director. A second Saturn Award in the film in the category Best Sound. In addition, he received nominations in six categories, including Best Actor ( Donald Sutherland ).
- Another award went to Kaufman at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Avoriaz.
- The Body Snatchers was nominated for the Hugo Award, but was defeated Richard Donner's Superman.