MICHAEL CRICHTON SPHERE CODE MOVIE

Hoffman's nasal whine and watchful eyes - the same melancholy and hangdog wit he's had since 1967's 'The Graduate' - suggests a guy who doesn't take himself seriously and, increasingly alarmed at the gathering horrors, has to rise above himself.

Hoffman, who shot his Oscar-nominated role in 'Wag the Dog' for Levinson during a temporary interruption on this movie, infuses Goodman with a weary charm, an anxious wariness, a sense of having sold out so long ago he can't count the compromises.

MICHAEL CRICHTON SPHERE CODE MOVIE

But both of them lie behind 'Sphere,' the most interesting Crichton story I've read or seen.Дirector Barry Levinson and the cast help out by giving the movie richer characterizations than usual.

Dick specialized in alternate universes and multiple realities Campbell was a hardheaded technocrat. Campbell Jr.'s 1938 classic, 'Who Goes There?': the story that was adapted (and greatly changed) as 1951's 'The Thing.' 'Who Goes there?' is the granddaddy of every 'trapped-by-monsters' variation that followed it, including 'Alien.' But, in 'Sphere,' Crichton mixes up Campbell's plot with the kind of alternate reality, psychological science-fiction, that was the specialty of another writer who was nearly Campbell's opposite: Philip K. Many science-fiction readers will recognize this plot as the latest variation on John W. The attack may be coming from within as well as from without. Something may be possessing the various people who got inside that sphere. Through an elaborate code, the visitor starts saying things like 'My Name is Jerry,' 'I'm happy' and, most disturbingly, 'I'm going to kill you all.' When he starts making good on his threat, the dwindling survivors face another troubling fact.

The presumed alien intelligence aboard the old ship contacts commander Barnes (Peter Coyote) on his computer. Jackson's Adams keeps reading Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'ДЇinally, Hades breaks loose. Crew members are attacked by swarms of maniacal jellyfish, like marine versions of the attacks in Hitchcock's 'The Birds.' Some of the scientists, investigating the wrecked spaceship, explore a golden shimmering sphere inside it and then come back with strange expressions on their faces. (Why were they sent down there with bad weather on the horizon?) Radio contact is broken. A raging storm pulls away all their support ships. Ideal? No sooner do the four characters and their associates get down to their ocean floor habitat, 1,000 feet or more underwater, than everything starts to go haywire. Purely for money, back in the days of the Bush administration, Goodman wrote a now-legendary report that specified exactly this kind of group as the ideal components for an alien contact team. They all know each other, and it even turns out that Goodman is responsible for the whole get-together. Nor are they (completely) the madcap wisecrackers we tend to get nowadays. They're not the usual solemn, brow-furrowing bunch from the '50s monster movies. government to help investigate a strange, wrecked craft on the Pacific Ocean floor, the bickering geniuses gradually learn they may be looking at a 300-year-old extraterrestrial spaceship, the discovery of the age. Jackson) and comical astrophysicist Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber). Norman Goodman (Hoffman), fiery biochemist Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), glowering mathematician Harry Adams (Samuel L. In this case, the trapped scientists are a star team of specialists: wry psychologist Dr.

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