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* FakeShemp: A body double was used for Creator/MegTilly's nude scene [[spoiler:when Carol is assimilated]]. The double is credited simply as "Jennifer," leading to an amusing rumor, since debunked, that [[Creator/JenniferTilly her sister]] did the work (enforced by the model's bigger... attributes).
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Directed by Creator/AbelFerrara and starring a young Creator/GabrielleAnwar, Creator/TerryKinney, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Creator/MegTilly, Billy Wirth and Creator/RLeeErmey, ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) is a {{gender flip}}ped (and teenage) version set on a U.S. Army base in Alabama. More character-focused than the earlier versions -- significantly, the heroine's stepmother is one of the first to be duplicated, and the family dynamic plays a big part in the movie. The film also got some mileage from its military setting and the fact that the protagonist herself was already somewhat detached from the community.
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Directed by Creator/AbelFerrara and starring a young Creator/GabrielleAnwar, Creator/TerryKinney, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Creator/MegTilly, Billy Wirth and Creator/RLeeErmey, ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) is a {{gender flip}}ped (and teenage) version set on a U.S. Army base in Alabama. Alabama.
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More character-focused than the earlier versions -- significantly, the heroine's stepmother is one of the first to be duplicated, and the family dynamic plays a big part in the
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--->"[[MeaningfulEcho Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left]]."
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Directed by Creator/AbelFerrara and starring a young Creator/GabrielleAnwar, Creator/TerryKinney, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Creator/MegTilly, and Creator/RLeeErmey, ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) is a {{gender flip}}ped (and teenage) version set on a U.S. Army base in Alabama. More character-focused than the earlier versions -- significantly, the heroine's stepmother is one of the first to be duplicated, and the family dynamic plays a big part in the movie. The film also got some mileage from its military setting and the fact that the protagonist herself was already somewhat detached from the community.
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Directed by Creator/AbelFerrara and starring a young Creator/GabrielleAnwar, Creator/TerryKinney, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Creator/MegTilly, Billy Wirth and Creator/RLeeErmey, ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) is a {{gender flip}}ped (and teenage) version set on a U.S. Army base in Alabama. More character-focused than the earlier versions -- significantly, the heroine's stepmother is one of the first to be duplicated, and the family dynamic plays a big part in the movie. The film also got some mileage from its military setting and the fact that the protagonist herself was already somewhat detached from the community.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The surviving characters are about to land at another military base, after bombing the pod convoy and knocking out the original base, but the "Where you gonna go" line is repeated for the audience--suggesting the pod people have already taken that base over. Marti's narration also notes how a person can only stay awake for so long--possibly suggesting she and her companion are resigned to being replaced.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The surviving characters are about to land at another military base, after bombing the pod convoy and knocking out the original base, but the "Where you gonna go" line is repeated for the audience--suggesting the pod people have already taken that base over. Marti's narration also notes how a person can only stay awake for so long--possibly suggesting she and her companion Tim are resigned to being replaced.]]
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* GoodStepmother: Marti and Carol appear to get along fairly well before the latter is [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the aliens, besides the usual teen embarrassment on Marti's part with both her parental figures, and Marti missing her mom.
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* GoodStepmother: Marti and Carol appear to get along fairly relatively well as fictional step-relatives go before the latter is [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the aliens, besides the usual predictable teen embarrassment rebellion on Marti's part with towards both her parental figures, and figures. While there's tension due to Marti missing her mom.mom, she can't claim that Carol isn't a nice person.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve turns out to have been assimilated at some point between the second act and the climax when the plot focused on his children sneaking around the base. This is revealed when he gets shot and dies at the climax and it follows Marti for the rest of the film.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Steve turns out to have been assimilated replaced at some point between the second act and the climax when the plot focused on his children sneaking around the base. This is revealed when he gets shot and dies at the climax and it follows Marti for the rest of the film.]]
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* HopeSpot: At the end, Marti's reunion with [[spoiler:her half-brother, Andy. Turns out that he was assimilated when he disappeared and she discovers this the hard way]].
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* HopeSpot: At the end, Marti's reunion with [[spoiler:her half-brother, Andy. Turns out that he was assimilated replaced when he disappeared and she discovers this the hard way]].
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* KillAndReplace: When the pods finish transforming into duplicates of the sleeping people they've gotten their tentacles around, the latter disintegrate.
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* GoodStepmother: Marti and Carol appear to get along fairly well before the latter is [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the aliens, besides the usual teen embarrassment on Marti's part with both her parental figures and her missing her mom.
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* GoodStepmother: Marti and Carol appear to get along fairly well before the latter is [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the aliens, besides the usual teen embarrassment on Marti's part with both her parental figures figures, and her Marti missing her mom.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Tim being a helicopter pilot turns out to be useful in eluding the aliens.
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* AssimilationPlot: The alien duplicates are emotionless and all of an identical mentality, as seen when the other kids in Andy's class all draw the same picture. However, they do ''not'' share a psychic HiveMind, which makes it possible for humans to trick them by acting like they've been replaced.
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* MissingMom: Marti's biological mother died when she was seven.
