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Brainwashing | Scientist
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Best Actor | 1981 | Alan
Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | 1980
The Space Shuttle seen in this film is the Columbia in its STS-1 configuration - the only one with a white external fuel tank. The spacecraft had arrived at Kennedy Space Center in March of 1979 and was scheduled to launch late in that year, but was delayed until April, 1981 due to engine and thermal protection system problems. Hence, the production was forced to use shots of the Shuttle on the launch pad, but an Apollo-era Saturn V rocket for the lift-off shots.
California governor Jerry Brown appears on the cover of the mock-up New York Times cover used in the film.
The book Eric is reading while leaning on a tree to pass the time during Simon's 200 hours in the isolation tank is "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1883-1924), first published in 1915. The copy he has is a bilingual edition in German and English printed in c.1968.
Meryl Streep turned down the part of Dr. Cynthia Mallory.
The "Institute for Advanced Concepts" was filmed at the then-new Bronx Development Center, a residential care facility for physically and mentally handicapped children. It was completed in 1977 and could accommodate 380 children and was run by the State of New York. However, it was allowed to decay and the state closed and sold it to a private developer who partially remodeled the modernistic building seen in this film and renamed the site the Hutchinson Metro Center in 2003.
"Prof. Simon Mendelssohn: Good afternoon everybody. I've been doing a great deal of thinking about who I am and why I have been sent here to live with you. And the answer is really very simple. Things here are just not working out very well. Your jobs are boring, your food is bland, your water is polluted and your relationships don't work. Is that not right? And the question is, how have things come to such a sorry state of affairs? I will tell you. There is too much bad suff around. Bad food, bad drink, bad art, bad ideas. Everything's all clogged up. So, what we're going to do is we're going to get rid of all the bad stuff and that will be a very good beginning. Now, I have a list here of things I would like written in the constitution immediately after which I promise you your lives will be less tense and more rewarding: 1. All muzak in elevators, airports, restaurants and other public rooms will cease immediately. 2. No more children or animals may be used to sell products. 3. Lawyers who lose cases will go to jail with their clients. 4. No doctor may write a diet book. Any doctor who does will immediately lose his license and become a dentist. 5. I think we don't really need a House of Representatives and a Senate. The Romans didn't have one, so let's just have a Senate, okay? Which reminds me, I think that it would be a very good idea if from now on all politicians who appear in public wear a cone-shaped party hat. Not bad, huh? 6. Pollution. Anybody who owns a factory that makes radioactive waste has to take it home at night with him to his house. 7. Anybody who says, "I am trying to get centered," "You are invading my space," or "Far out" will be fined $50. Make that $100."
"Prof. Jerry Milstein: It's a distinct possibility. We can make viruses now. An advanced civilization, they could make a perfect human. David Susskind: A real, three-dimensional human? A human human? There's a dichotomy in this... Prof. Jerry Milstein: If he's indistinguishable from you or me, what's the difference? Hemling Grotowsky: Where is his soul? This is the basic question. Rabbi Chaim Glassberg: How can he have a soul? His mother was a blender! The most he can have is a warranty. Priest Babcock Beastly: I think that this event is clear proof that there is a God in the universe. Hemling Grotowsky: This is clear proof that there is no God! Rabbi Chaim Glassberg: You're both wrong. This is proof that there is a God but He doesn't know what the hell He is doing."
