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Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Douglas Trumbull had previously brought his VFX experience to film on such groundbreaking classics as 2001, but Silent Running – a sort of proto-Wall-E, with humanity facing the demise of its natural resources – let him loose as a director. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of several crew members on a greenhouse vessel that carries some of the few remaining plants from a ruined Earth. But when his ship is ordered to destroy the vegetation and return, Lowell mutinies and continues to tend his foliage with the help of three memorable robo-assistants. It s by turns dramatic, quiet, and reflective, an environmental warning that refrains from throwing its message in your face.
“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots, friend and manager Lou Pitt said in a statement to Deadline. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”
Through each of the ensuing decades, he went on to appear in high-grossing and critically acclaimed films, branching out in the 2000s and 2010s to lend his distinct, dignified rasp to memorably-voiced characters in numerous video games and animated films.
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Greetings fellow time travelers, and welcome back to the CinemaBlend labs! Itâs been a little while, I know, but after recovering from both the âhuman faxingâ process and existential crises implicated by our trip through
Timeline, the recovery process took a little longer than usual. Never fear, as itâs now time again to travel from here to there in the then and now; and this week is a bit of a dark and twisted journey. Weâre going to go nuts with a classic favorite of mine thatâs just turned 25 this past December, as Bruce Willis deals with unpredictable time travel, hair dye, and one whacked out Brad Pitt in director Terry Gilliamâs
25 Years Ago: ’12 Monkeys’ Predicts the Pandemic
It could be the plot of a Terry Gilliam movie. In 2020, a pandemic threatens humanity’s survival. Faced with the reality that society’s own constructs are helping spread the virus, desperate minds travel back in time to 1996, watching a film that predicted how society’s constructs would help a pandemic threaten humanity’s survival. Of course, that’s entirely fictional. Isn’t it?
When Gilliam was offered the director’s role on
12 Monkeys in 1994, he was immediately attracted to the seemingly simple story that relied on so many different people’s perceptions of life that it could carry almost endless interpretations. All of them hinged on whether the protagonist, James Cole, is sane – something even Cole himself is unsure of.
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