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* HeroesWantRedheads: Well calling him a "hero" is a bit much but Eddie still wants Emily in the end.
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* FrazettaMan: Jessup's incessant experiments end up actually causing a physical biological devolution, turning into a hairy and feral prehistoric brute that goes on a mild rampage through town.
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* FrazettaMan: Jessup's incessant experiments end up actually causing a physical biological devolution, turning him into a hairy and feral prehistoric brute that goes on a mild rampage through town.
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* FrazettaMan: Jessup's incessant experiments end up actually causing a physical biological devolution, turning into a hairy and feral prehistoric brute that goes on a mild rampage through town.
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''Altered States'' is a 1980 film (which some have called a vicarious LSD Experience) directed by Creator/KenRussell (who took up the project of adapting Creator/PaddyChayefsky's novel for the screen after the first director quit due to creative differences with Chayefsky).
The film takes places over several years, following the life of Eddie Jessup (Creator/WilliamHurt), a brilliant research scientist who believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. He and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Creator/BobBalaban, experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. Jessup marries a scientist [[note]] hot physical anthropologist, actually [[/note]], Emily, played by Blair Brown. They have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions.
During a marital separation, she travels to Africa to study baboons while he goes to Mexico and participates in a mushroom ceremony with a tribe of natives called the Hinchi Indians. On the mushroom drug, Eddie experiences a kind of jumbled psychological regression to the first soul- that spark of consciousness which he believes gave rise to all creation, from the Big Bang to the origin of life on Earth. He takes the drug back to the United States for testing, where he intensifies the effects of the mushroom chemicals with sensory deprivation. He emerges from one test mentally regressed, unable to speak except for primitive grunts and clicks. An X-ray reveals Simian characteristics. Jessup is convinced that he de-differentiated his genetic structure, that the altered state of his more primitive consciousness physically manifested.
Ignoring the warnings of all concerned parties, he tries it again... and emerges as a fur-covered, vicious ape-man, presumably a manifestation of the primitive hominid consciousness he contacts inside the isolation tank. He breaks out of the basement of the medical school where the isolation tank is kept, attacks a security guard, and chases a pack of wild dogs to the local zoo, where he kills and eats a raw sheep. When his humanity returns, he convinces his concerned friends to monitor one last isolation tank trip.
During the study, something happens, and the primordial consciousness of Jessup's obsession nearly destroys the laboratory. Inside the tank, Jessup regresses in a mass of primordial matter. He is only brought back to reality/modernity/whatever by his love for Emily, with whom he is last seen in bed with... both of them switching back and forth between their cognitive selves and masses of sexually ecstatic, fiery, oozy, lumpy, swirling blobs of proto-matter, while their friends argue about the validity of Jessup's experience, the scientific ramifications, and how to cover up their own foolishness.
The film takes places over several years, following the life of Eddie Jessup (Creator/WilliamHurt), a brilliant research scientist who believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. He and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Creator/BobBalaban, experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. Jessup marries a scientist [[note]] hot physical anthropologist, actually [[/note]], Emily, played by Blair Brown. They have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions.
During a marital separation, she travels to Africa to study baboons while he goes to Mexico and participates in a mushroom ceremony with a tribe of natives called the Hinchi Indians. On the mushroom drug, Eddie experiences a kind of jumbled psychological regression to the first soul- that spark of consciousness which he believes gave rise to all creation, from the Big Bang to the origin of life on Earth. He takes the drug back to the United States for testing, where he intensifies the effects of the mushroom chemicals with sensory deprivation. He emerges from one test mentally regressed, unable to speak except for primitive grunts and clicks. An X-ray reveals Simian characteristics. Jessup is convinced that he de-differentiated his genetic structure, that the altered state of his more primitive consciousness physically manifested.
Ignoring the warnings of all concerned parties, he tries it again... and emerges as a fur-covered, vicious ape-man, presumably a manifestation of the primitive hominid consciousness he contacts inside the isolation tank. He breaks out of the basement of the medical school where the isolation tank is kept, attacks a security guard, and chases a pack of wild dogs to the local zoo, where he kills and eats a raw sheep. When his humanity returns, he convinces his concerned friends to monitor one last isolation tank trip.
During the study, something happens, and the primordial consciousness of Jessup's obsession nearly destroys the laboratory. Inside the tank, Jessup regresses in a mass of primordial matter. He is only brought back to reality/modernity/whatever by his love for Emily, with whom he is last seen in bed with... both of them switching back and forth between their cognitive selves and masses of sexually ecstatic, fiery, oozy, lumpy, swirling blobs of proto-matter, while their friends argue about the validity of Jessup's experience, the scientific ramifications, and how to cover up their own foolishness.
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''Altered States'' is a 1980 film (which some have called a vicarious LSD Experience) directed by Creator/KenRussell (who took up the project of adapting Creator/PaddyChayefsky's [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapting]] the eponymous 1978 Creator/PaddyChayefsky novel for the screen after the first original director quit quit, due to creative differences with Chayefsky).
The film takes places over severalyears, following years in the life of Eddie Jessup (Creator/WilliamHurt), a brilliant research scientist who specializing in psychopathology. He believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day everyday reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. He Jessup and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Creator/BobBalaban, Arthur Rosenberg (Creator/BobBalaban) experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. Jessup also marries a scientist [[note]] hot fellow scientist[[note]] physical anthropologist, actually [[/note]], Emily, played by Blair Brown. They [[/note]] named Emily (Blair Brown) and they have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions.
During a trial marital separation, she travels with the children to Africa to study baboons while he goes to Mexico and participates in a mushroom ceremony with a tribe of natives called the Hinchi Indians.On While on the mushroom drug, Eddie Jessup experiences a kind of jumbled psychological regression to the first soul- "first soul", that spark of consciousness which he believes gave rise to all creation, from the Big Bang to the origin inception of life on Earth. He Jessup takes the drug back to the United States for testing, where he intensifies the effects of the mushroom chemicals with sensory deprivation. He emerges from one test of these tests mentally regressed, unable to speak except for primitive grunts and clicks. An clicks, while an X-ray reveals Simian characteristics. Jessup is convinced that he de-differentiated his genetic structure, that the altered state of his more primitive consciousness physically manifested.
Ignoring the warnings of all concerned parties, he tries it once again... and emerges as a fur-covered, vicious ape-man, presumably a manifestation of the primitive hominid consciousness he contacts inside the isolation tank. He breaks out of the basement of the medical school where the isolation tank is kept, attacks a security guard, and chases a pack of wild dogs to the local zoo, where he kills and eats a raw sheep. When his humanity returns, he convinces his concerned friends to monitor one last isolation tank trip.
During the study, something happens, and the primordial consciousness of Jessup's obsession nearly destroys the laboratory. Inside the tank, Jessup regressesin into a mass of primordial matter. He is only brought back to reality/modernity/whatever by his love for Emily, with whom who he is last seen in bed with... both of them switching back and forth between their cognitive selves and masses of sexually ecstatic, fiery, oozy, lumpy, swirling blobs of proto-matter, while their friends colleagues argue about the validity of Jessup's experience, the scientific ramifications, and how to cover up their own foolishness.
The film takes places over several
During a trial marital separation, she travels with the children to Africa to study baboons while he goes to Mexico and participates in a mushroom ceremony with a tribe of natives called the Hinchi Indians.
Ignoring the warnings of all concerned parties, he tries it once again... and emerges as a fur-covered, vicious ape-man, presumably a manifestation of the primitive hominid consciousness he contacts inside the isolation tank. He breaks out of the basement of the medical school where the isolation tank is kept, attacks a security guard, and chases a pack of wild dogs to the local zoo, where he kills and eats a raw sheep. When his humanity returns, he convinces his concerned friends to monitor one last isolation tank trip.
During the study, something happens, and the primordial consciousness of Jessup's obsession nearly destroys the laboratory. Inside the tank, Jessup regresses
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->'''Eddie Jessup:''' ''Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.''
->'''Mason Parrish:''' ''You're a whacko!''
->'''Eddie Jessup:''' ''What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his TrueSelf. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.''
->'''Emily Jessup:''' ''He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.''
->'''Mason Parrish:''' ''You're a whacko!''
->'''Eddie Jessup:''' ''What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his TrueSelf. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.''
->'''Emily Jessup:''' ''He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.''
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->'''Eddie Jessup:''' ''Memory Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.''
system.
->'''Mason Parrish:'''''You're You're a whacko!''
whacko!
->'''Eddie Jessup:'''''What's What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his TrueSelf. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.''
life.
->'''Emily Jessup:'''''He He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.''
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->'''Emily Jessup:'''
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The film takes places over several years, following the life of Eddie Jessup (Creator/WilliamHurt), a brilliant research scientist who believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. He and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Creator/BobBalaban, experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. Jessup marries a HotScientist [[note]] hot physical anthropologist, actually [[/note]], Emily, played by Blair Brown. They have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions.
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The film takes places over several years, following the life of Eddie Jessup (Creator/WilliamHurt), a brilliant research scientist who believes that altered states of consciousness are as real as every day reality, and investigates the religious experience in schizophrenics. He and his friend and fellow scientist Arthur, played by Creator/BobBalaban, experiment with altered states of consciousness using isolation tank studies. Jessup marries a HotScientist scientist [[note]] hot physical anthropologist, actually [[/note]], Emily, played by Blair Brown. They have two daughters together, but the marriage is strained by her groundedness and his wild, out-there intellectual passions.
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* TerminalTransformation: Eddie's [[DevolutionDevice evolutionary drug experiments]] cause him to dramatically transform and regress into a blob of primordial matter - and from there, a single-celled organism. By the time Emily is able to reach him, he's on the verge of ceasing to exist altogether, though she's able to guide him back to reality before it's too late.
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* HollywoodNerd: Eddie Jessup. Played by William Hurt. He's tall, attractive, and brilliant, but has no idea how to deal with emotions other than his own intellectual passions. That and he thinks about Jesus and Crucifixion during sex.
* HollywoodScience: De-Evolution, Lego Genetics.
* HotScientist: Eddie's girlfriend and later, wife, Emily (played by Blair Brown).
* InstantOracleJustAddWater
* MrFanservice: William Hurt in his prime.
* HollywoodScience: De-Evolution, Lego Genetics.
* HotScientist: Eddie's girlfriend and later, wife, Emily (played by Blair Brown).
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** In one scene, Eddie finds his flesh warping and swelling into painful configurations while in bed and trying not to wake his partner... and while not on any of the drugs he usually takes.
** In a later experiment, Eddie emerges from the tank unable to speak, and x-rays reveal that the organs in his throat have temporarily devolved - a precursor to his later transformation into an early hominid.
** Taken to the logical conclusion when Eddie finds himself devolving into a hideously disfigured blob of primordial matter - and spreads it to Emily.
** In one scene, Eddie finds his flesh warping and swelling into painful configurations while in bed and trying not to wake his partner... and while not on any of the drugs he usually takes.
** In a later experiment, Eddie emerges from the tank unable to speak, and x-rays reveal that the organs in his throat have temporarily devolved - a precursor to his later transformation into an early hominid.
** Taken to the logical conclusion when Eddie finds himself devolving into a hideously disfigured blob of primordial matter - and spreads it to Emily.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Ape-like human ancestors, actually. Also, Emily is very enthusiastic about her baboons.
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* MsFanservice: Blair Brown as Emily. Her nude scenes are quite delicious and the film even ends with her naked in a hallway held by an equally undressed William Hurt.
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* MsFanservice: Blair Brown as Emily. Her nude scenes are quite delicious prominent and the film even ends with her naked in a hallway held by an equally undressed William Hurt.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The one up to about 40 minutes until he starts physically turning into a gorilla.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The one up to about 40 minutes until he starts physically turning into a gorilla.