Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1. American science fictionhorror film from Allied Artists Pictures, partially shot in the film noir style, produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin Mc. Carthy and Dana Wynter. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this . Hill is called to the emergency room of a California hospital, where a screaming man is being held in custody. Hill agrees to listen to his story. The man identifies himself as a doctor, and he recounts, in flashback, the events leading up to his arrest and arrival at the hospital: In the nearby town of Santa Mira, Dr. Miles Bennell sees a number of patients apparently suffering from Capgras delusion . Returning from a trip, Miles meets his former girlfriend, Becky Driscoll, who has herself recently come back to town after a recent divorce. Becky's cousin Wilma has the same fear about her Uncle Ira, with whom she lives. Dan Kauffman assures Bennell that these cases are merely an . When Bennell calls Kauffman to the scene, the bodies have mysteriously disappeared, and Kauffman informs Bennell that he is falling for the same hysteria. The following night, Bennell, Becky, Jack, and Jack's wife Teddy again find duplicates of themselves, emerging from giant seed pods in Dr. They conclude that the townspeople are being replaced while asleep with exact physical copies. Miles tries to make a long distance call to federal authorities for help, but the phone operator claims that all long- distance lines are busy; Jack and Teddy drive off to seek help in the next town. Bennell and Becky discover that by now all of the town's inhabitants have been replaced and are devoid of humanity; they flee to Bennell's office to hide for the night. The next morning they see truckloads of the giant pods heading to neighboring towns to be planted and used to replace their populations. Kauffman and Jack, both of whom are . After their takeover, they explain, life loses its frustrating complexity, because all emotions and sense of individuality vanish. Bennell and Becky manage to escape, but are soon pursued by a crowd of . Exhausted, they manage to hide in an abandoned mine outside town. O nascimento do Euro, a moeda Bennell leaves a little later, coming upon a large greenhouse farm, where he discovers giant seed pods being grown by the hundreds. When Bennell kisses Becky after his return, he realizes, to his horror, that Becky fell asleep and is now one of them. As Bennell runs away, she sounds the alarm. He runs and runs, eventually finding himself on a crowded state highway. After seeing a transport truck bound for San Francisco and Los Angeles filled with the pods, he frantically screams at the passing motorists, ! Hill and the on- duty doctor dismiss Bennell's account until a truck driver is wheeled into the emergency room after being badly injured in an accident. He was found in his wrecked truck buried under a load of giant seed pods. Hill calls for all roads in and out of Santa Mira to be barricaded, and alerts the FBI. Production. The studio later asked Wanger to cut the budget significantly. The producer proposed a shooting schedule of 2. For Becky, he considered casting Anne Bancroft, Donna Reed, Kim Hunter, Vera Miles and others. With the lower budget, however, he abandoned these choices and cast Richard Kiley, who had just starred in The Phenix City Story for Allied Artists. Gostaria de saber por que os padres fazem adora Dois receptores foram instalados na Avenida Rio Branco, a principal da cidade, enquanto os locutores da r Este trabalho discute o significado do 'perspectivismo' amer No ponto mais alto da pir. Espanha, Turismo, Economia, Pa Peckinpah was a dialogue coach on five Siegel films in the mid- 1. The location proved too expensive and Siegel with Allied Artist executives found locations resembling Mill Valley in the Los Angeles area, including Sierra Madre, Chatsworth, Glendale, Los Feliz, Bronson and Beachwood Canyons, all of which would make up the town of . The cast and crew worked a six- day week with Sundays off. Additional photography took place in September 1. Original intended ending). The final budget was $3. The producer was unable to come up with a title and accepted the studio's choice, They Come from Another World and that was assigned in summer 1. Siegel objected to this title and suggested two alternatives, Better Off Dead and Sleep No More, while Wanger offered Evil in the Night and World in Danger. None of these were chosen, and the studio settled on Invasion of the Body Snatchers in late 1. The producer sought out Orson Welles to voice the preface and a trailer for the film. He wrote speeches for Welles' opening on June 1. Welles to do it, but was unsuccessful. Wanger considered science fiction author Ray Bradbury instead, but this did not happen, either. Later reports by Mainwaring and Siegel, however, contradict this, claiming that audiences could not follow the film and laughed in the wrong places. In response the studio removed much of the film's humor, . In later interviews Siegel pointed out that it was studio policy not to mix humor with horror. Wanger felt that the film lost sharpness and detail. Siegel originally shot Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 1. Superscope was a post- production laboratory process designed to create an anamorphic print from non- anamorphic source material that would be projected at an aspect ratio of 2. It was originally meant to end with Miles screaming as truckloads of pods pass him by. In this version the film begins with a ranting Bennell in custody in a hospital emergency ward. He then tells a consulting psychiatrist (Whit Bissell) his story. In the closing scene pods are found at a highway accident, confirming his warning. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is notified. However, he begged me to shoot it to protect the film, and I reluctantly consented . Nonetheless, Peary emphasized that the added scenes changed significantly what he saw as the film's original intention (see Themes). Theatrical release. The film made more than $1 million in the first month, and in 1. U. S. Others viewed it as an allegory for the loss of personal autonomy in the Soviet Union or communist systems in general. The interviewer stated that he had spoken with the author of the novel, Jack Finney, who professed no specific political allegory in the work. DVD commentary track, quoted in Feo Amante's homepage. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an example of that. I remember reading a magazine article arguing that the picture was intended as an allegory about the communist infiltration of America. From personal knowledge, neither Walter Wanger nor Don Siegel, who directed it, nor Dan Mainwaring, who wrote the script nor original author Jack Finney, nor myself saw it as anything other than a thriller, pure and simple. I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow. Telotte wrote that Siegel intended for pods to be seductive; their spokesperson, a psychiatrist, was chosen to provide an authoritative voice that would appeal to the desire to . The site's consensus reads: . Invasion of the Body Snatchers was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the science fiction genre. Thrills, a list of America's most heart- pounding films. The latter is not the original full frame edition, but a pan and scan reworking of the Superscope edition that loses visual detail. Invasion of the body snatchers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. See also. 4. 46.^ abcdefg. Warren 1. 98. 2. 2. La. Valley 1. 98. Weddle 1. 99. 4, pp. La. Valley 1. 98. La. Valley 1. 98. Retrieved: January 1. Lovell 1. 97. 5. Retrieved: January 1. Biodrowski, Steve. Retrieved: January 1. Turner, George. Retrieved: January 1. Maltin's 2. 00. 9, p. Retrieved: January 1. Dodd,Michael. Retrieved: January 1. Clarens 1. 96. 8. Retrieved: January 1. Mirisch 2. 00. 8, pp. American Cinema, London 1. 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