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** Sussman [[spoiler:goes against orders to destroy his research samples in order to successfully culture the virus in a lab... a vital first step to getting a vaccine. Doubles as a case of ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules since it's speculated by Hextall that Sussman have gone into business himself with the discovery and made a fortune, and was probably approached about it.]]
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** Sussman [[spoiler:goes against orders to destroy his research samples in order to successfully culture the virus in a lab... a vital first step to getting a vaccine. Doubles as a case of ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules since it's speculated by Hextall that Sussman have has gone into business himself with the discovery and made a fortune, and was probably approached about it.]]
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* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Beth Emhoff, who cheated on her husband with a former lover who lived in Chicago, unwittingly spreads the virus to the Midwest.
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The film was critically praised for its realistic depiction of a contagious disease and grossed $75 million dollars at the U.S. box office.
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The film was critically praised for its realistic depiction of a contagious disease and grossed $75 million dollars at the U.S. box office.
office. It gained more attention in 2020 because of the film's similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Mitch Emhoff is a mild and justified version, keeping his daughter from meeting the boy she likes even though neither of them are sick (played with, as this is likely as much to protect ''him'' as her). Even though there's a chance she's immune as he is, he's not going to take it. [[spoiler:When the boy is vaccinated, he immediately makes up for it by setting up a personal prom night just for them.]]
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* ConvulsiveSeizures: What happens shortly before you die of the virus.
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* ConvulsiveSeizures: What happens shortly before you die of the virus. Justified as it's stated that one of the symptoms is encephalitis... inflammation of the brain.
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* BookedFullOfMooks: Krumwiede meets up with a confidant in a public park to make excuses for himself regarding Forsythia. [[spoiler:He figures out too late that said confidant is working with the police, and that all the city workers and park visitors around him are undercover cops, who promptly arrest him for fraud.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: John Neal is infected by Beth and it's implied that he died. Considering that he was ruining her relationship with Mitch for his own sexual gratification, it's [[LaserGuidedKarma not particularly upsetting]]. Also counts as an unusual example of DeathBySex.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: John Neal is infected by Beth and it's implied that he died. Considering that he was ruining her relationship with Mitch for his own sexual gratification, it's [[LaserGuidedKarma not particularly upsetting]]. Also counts as an unusual example of DeathBySex.SexSignalsDeath.]]
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* LethallyStupid: [[spoiler:The ending reveals how the virus started. A chef butchered an infected pig and ''didn't bother washing his hands'', right before shaking hands with a businesswoman, no less.]]
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** When Dr. Orantes learns [[spoiler: the vaccine given to secure her release was a fake. She was held hostage in a village to secure vaccine and can't bear that innocent children will die and immediately returns to the village to warn them.]]
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Everything involved in trying to figure MEV-1 out, which realistically would take years while the pandemic would burn through its initial waves broadly as depicted. In other words, no prospect of a vaccine to mitigate casualties. The HollywoodScience is so selective here in order to give the health officials a fighting chance rather than making the movie solely about a disastrous pandemic.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Everything involved in trying to figure MEV-1 out, which realistically would take years while the pandemic would burn through its initial waves broadly as depicted. In other words, no prospect of a vaccine to mitigate casualties. The HollywoodScience is so selective here in order to give the health officials a fighting chance rather than making the movie solely about a disastrous pandemic. [[note]] This was a criticism of the movie when it was released, but it was shown not to be nearly so far fetched during the Covid-19 pandemic, when vaccines were developed less than a year since the virus became pandemic. Sure, this was ten years after the movie, but science and technology hadn't progressed so much that the movie was sci-fi. [[/note]]
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Removing as this has nothing to do with the film, especially at the time of its release.
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** Given what happened with COVID-19, however, the scenario depicted appears far more realistic than what was thought when the movie first came out. While COVID-19 is far less lethal than MEV-1, the level of response is pretty close to the same, as is the scale of the science attempting to find a cure. Even the speed with which a vaccine is ultimately developed, a bit of artistic license in 2011, turned out to be ahead of its time, as by 2020, research into [=mRNA=] had advanced enough that safe, effective vaccines could be developed and distributed less than a year after the first lockdowns.
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''Contagion'' is a 2011 DisasterMovie directed by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/MattDamon, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/KateWinslet, Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow, among many others.
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''Contagion'' is a 2011 American DisasterMovie thriller directed by Creator/StevenSoderbergh, starring Creator/MattDamon, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/KateWinslet, Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/JudeLaw Creator/JudeLaw, and Creator/GwynethPaltrow, Creator/GwynethPaltrow among many others.
