'The Andromeda Stamm' 4k Uhd Blu-ray: Pfeilvideo

Robert Wises Adaption of The Andromeda trunk Remons a large part of the emphasis on the Michael Crichton novel's novel on the minutia of the efforts to contain a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism and at the same time mix elements of a process thriller and a disaster film. As set by Richard H. Klin, the Panavision images conjures up a feeling of the upcoming doom, since almost every resident is found dead in a small town in New Mexico after a US military satellite falls nearby, but it is Boris Leven's art direction, especially within the laboratory, in which a group of scientists collects the film that clearly collects the film Clinical appearance and the feeling.

The Nelson Gidding script methodically moves to a climax in which the disarmament of a bomb in the laboratory could prevent humanity from dying out. Days earlier, the US military activates a hidden operation in which a team of scientists is involved, including Dr. Stone (Jeremy Hall) and Dr. Hall (James Olson) to study traces of the extraterrestrial organism, which is later called Andromeda to determine how and why it kills – and of course how it spreads.

There are no chase scenes, no shootings and hardly any screaming match among the scientists. During the entire filmmaker, special focus on the scientists' process, from the Jargon-high-quality dialogue to the size and type of disease to the blood of the victims. The initial discovery of a city full of dead people is particularly frightening that the film plays it in silence and examines the cruel terrain without the calm terror with z.

Wise also uses various visual techniques, such as And with the support of the visual effect artist Douglas Trumbull, his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey Practically invented modern effects, data ads, simulations and scientific reading play less than lectures than light shows, which give a striking contrast to the ongoing discussions among the scientists.

In a significant change in the novel, a figure, which was rewritten as female for the film, serves Dr. Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid), as an implicit criticism of the gender -specific assumptions of the scientific culture of the era. According to reports, Wise had to be convinced that it would be credible for the viewers to have a female scientist as a clinical pathologist and not only as a defined decoration, let alone for the scientific community. And although the gender in the film does not become an explicit tension point, a number of moments such as: The Andromeda trunk Slide the envelope in a subtle way.

Image/sound

According to the brochure, which is included in this Arrow video set, “The Andromeda trunk has been restored exclusively by Arrow films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35: 1 with Mono -Audio. “Arrow released the film on Blu-ray in 2019, and while this 4K UHD edition seems to use the same 4K transfer, the native 4K presentation, combined with HDR10 and Dolby Vision, is breathtaking. Artificially manipulated.

Extras

The extras were all ported from the publication of Arrow 2019, which is a little disappointed because a global pandemic took place between then and now. In fact, an interview with the critic Kim Newman emphasizes the contemporary resonances of the film with a number of outbreaks of the 21st century, all before Covid-19. The audio commentary of the criticism Bryan Reesman is also an appreciation, a history lesson to appear the disaster film in the 1970s and an analysis of various scenes for the construction. There are two features, both directed by Laurent Bouzereau in 2001, which contain interviews with Robert Wise, Nelson Gidding and Michael Crichton. We also get a gallery of highlights from the commented and illustrated shooting script, the theater trailer, the TV spots and the radio spots. The inclusive brochure also contains the letter from Peter Tonguette and some archive materials such as “A discussion leader for students and teachers” by Tom Andrews, director of drama at the Kent School, which was part of the original advertising campaign for the release of the film.

In total

Robert Wise's The Andromeda trunkA hard slash disaster thriller is a fascinating early example of a large blockbuster filmmaking with a brain.