Remember that part of the movie when the cat gets "lost" in . . . something or otherness . . . Anyway, then we hear the cat meow from out of nothingness. Now that was a great scene, although the least realistic thing in the movie (among many).
Just wanted to contribute that. Terrific movie.
Actually it's quite realistic, ever hear about 'ghost' sounds and 'ghost' visuals that for some reason can be recorded. There's a lot of theories that support dimensional interaction.
The original novel was 'light' years ahead of the world in which it was written and yet it one of those pieces of fiction that has scientific support.
Just like time travel, the transmission of matter/energy through space has been worked on.
Look up the work of Nikola Tesla and his experiments/theories...
Well, I'll be damned. I don't pretend to be a science expert. Its just that the cat is supposed to be a series of atoms in the air now, right? So logically, the idea of hearing a meow can't be right.
However, you seem to be the expert.
Ok, Mr. Smarty Pants, I looked up this Tesla guy and he doesn't say one thing about what happened to the cat. In the future, I think you better check your sources more carefully.
I wanna buy your carbon offsets.
Actually it's quite realistic, ever hear about 'ghost' sounds and 'ghost' visuals that for some reason can be recorded. There's a lot of theories that support dimensional interaction.Lots of ideas that might rise to the level of a hypothesis. But theories....?
The original novel was 'light' years ahead of the world in which it was written and yet it one of those pieces of fiction that has scientific support.Come on, it was a B-grade SF movie with a "There are things man was not meant to know" theme (actually anti-science).
Just like time travel, the transmission of matter/energy through space has been worked on.But without any success at the macro level. (At the nano-level, it's a commonplace, used in zener diodes all over the place.)
Look up the work of Nikola Tesla and his experiments/theories...Telsa did some good work that we still use, and had a lot of hair-brained ideas that are only kept alive by New Age woo-woo.
damn, that scene made me spine crawl
shareYou're right Citizen Braaaains, that scene doesn't make sense when you consider that Dandelo is split up into billions upon billions of atoms...That being said, I think the scene is extremely disturbing and perfect for this movie.
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I believe the cat cat was stuck in the "neutral zone".
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A little piece of trivia: In the original short story by George Langelaan, Andre goes through the telepod and comes out with not only fly parts, but cat parts, too. The cat that got "stuck" obviously was still "stuck" in there somewhere. The film omitted the fly-cat-man and just stuck with "The Fly."
Sounds freaky but I'd be interested to see that bit retained in the screenplay (I know, I have a morbid curiosity)
shareI thought the scientist lied to his wife and actually found his cat somewhere close, disfigured. He obviously didn't want his wife to know the cat died in pain, and what the machine did.
Does that sound reasonable?
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That scene was extremely disturbing and effective, unrealistic or not.
shareI thought the scientist lied to his wife and actually found his cat somewhere close, disfigured. He obviously didn't want his wife to know the cat died in pain, and what the machine did.
Does that sound reasonable?
>>> Alternate theories of what "really" happened to the cat, are like the cat itself, lost in hyperspace, neverneverland. It's fiction. What they wrote is all there is. There is no "what really happened to the cat".
Closed-minded sentiments like this, which attempt to render all discussion of movies meaningless, add nothing to the conversation.
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No, sentiments like this do not "attempt to render all discussions of movies meaningless". There are alternate theories about what the authors/s might have meant to have happened to the cat, which are legitimate to discuss, and then how plausible those theories are, whether as fiction or in fact. But when someone forgets that the story is fiction and matter-transfer has not in fact been invented/discovered, and something "really" happened to the cat, then a line has been crossed.
All that is visible must grow beyond itself...
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I loved the scene with the cat. Those otherworldly meows were genuinely creepy.
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That's one thing I don't like about this movie, not the cat 'dying' or the fact that he used their pet as a test subject, but how they act afterwards. Andre just calmly says to Helene that he used the cat in his experiment, and she says "How could you?". I forget what he says next, but then they totally drop the issue and she doesn't seem to care at all that he killed their cat. :( And I thought at the beginning François gives that foreshadowing line about the family "respects life. Wouldn't hurt/kill anything, not even a fly." Yet they don't give a damn about their cat!!
I'm a huge animal lover, and that just bothered me.
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