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Contagion (2011)

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Contagion (2011)	comment	Contagion is a 2011 American Disaster Movie thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow among many others.While heading back to Minneapolis after stopping at Chicago for a layover following a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) begins to exhibit symptoms of a highly contagious disease. Shortly afterwards, several other individuals in Hong Kong begin to exhibit the same symptoms. Upon returning home to her husband Mitch (Damon) and their two children, she collapses and is rushed to the hospital, while across the world, thousands of people begin to die from the same symptoms.The responsibility of identifying and treating the new outbreak falls to the World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control, with scientists around the globe researching the virus, including Dr. Ellis Cheever (Fishburne), Dr. Erin Mears (Winslet) and Dr. Leonora Orantes (Cotillard). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, conspiracy blogger Alan Krumwiede (Law) searches for answers, while a fellow doctor named Sussman (Elliott Gould) tries to identify the virus.Mitch soon discovers that he's genetically immune to the disease, and desperately tries to protect his daughter Jordan from it, not knowing if she has inherited his immunity. This troubles Jordan because she can't risk infection to be with her boyfriend.The film was critically praised for its realistic depiction of a contagious disease and grossed $75 million dollars at the U.S. box office. It gained more attention in 2020 because of the film's similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Contagion (2011) / int_118a2d16	type	Hanlon's Razor
Contagion (2011) / int_118a2d16	comment	Hanlon's Razor: Krumwiede nitpicks everything the government is doing about the virus and portraying it as the result of massive conspiracies. In reality, the government is just working as quickly and efficiently as it can under the circumstances.
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Contagion (2011) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Contagion (2011) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Aside from Mitch Emhoff (the only person in the film who shows an immunity to the virus), everyone else in the film is susceptible, and many people die, including Beth Emhoff and her son, Dr. Mears, and tens of millions of other people across the planet. In particular, Dr. Mears' death is meant to show that nobody, not even the professionals trying to control it, is immune in a pandemic...and deaths of professionals like Dr. Mears is a massive obstacle to containing the pandemic, as it causes things like a nurses' strike.
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Contagion (2011) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Contagion (2011) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Director Steven Soderbergh voices John Neal, the man Beth was seeing in Chicago (and calling from China), at the beginning.
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Contagion (2011) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Contagion (2011) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Surprisingly averted for most of the movie by Mitch, until the very end, when he finds his wife's camera and looks at her final photographs.
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Contagion (2011) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Contagion (2011) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Dr. Mears, sounding sick, calling the hotel staff and asking for the names of everyone who cleaned the room she was sitting in.
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Contagion (2011) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Contagion (2011) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The case where a scientist injects herself with a vaccine while it's still untested, much to the worry of her scientist father, is presumably loosely based off a case during the Ebola outbreak where African scientists transferred blood from an Ebola-immune subject to a nurse who was infected (both cases worked, by the way). The Nobel Prize-winning self-experimentation of Prof. Barry Marshall is mentioned, too. The scare over the vaccine is very similar to the MMR scare that happened in the early 2000's and was similarly ill-supported by evidence, only gaining public attention due to scaremongering. The origins of the epidemic (disturbed fruit bat infects pig infects human somewhere in East Asia) are taken from the 1999 Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia.
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Contagion (2011) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Contagion (2011) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Mostly averted. However, there were a few obvious fictionalizations: The trouble that they had growing the virus in cell culture, the reason cited that it "killed all the cells". Though some viruses are extremely difficult to grow in cell culture in real life, culture killing usually indicates a successful attempt to culture the virus. There were repeated references to genomic DNA; paramyxoviruses are RNA viruses. The vaccine is depicted as imparting instant protection from the virus during both the off-protocol testing and public distribution, whereas most take some time to become completely effective as the immune system "learns" to defend from the disease. After he fails to show symptoms and discovered to be immune to the virus, Mitch is released into the population again. No acknowledgement of the phenomenon of healthy carriers (people who don't show symptoms but are capable of transmitting the disease, like the infamous Typhoid Mary) is made, though this would be a well-known risk. The granddaddy of them was when the viral envelope protein structure was solved within days of the virus' discovery. X-ray crystallography is often a process of many months to years, and co-crystalization of proteins which bind to each other (such as depicted) is even more difficult and time consuming.
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Contagion (2011) / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Contagion (2011) / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Dr. Cheever makes sure to tell Dr. Mears before she leaves for Minnesota to call him "if you're staring at a wall at 3 AM wondering why you took this job." Later in the film he makes sure to ask her how she's doing and when she starts talking about what she's doing he steers the conversation back to her mental and emotional state.
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Contagion (2011) / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Contagion (2011) / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: The Movie. Oddly, the virus is mentioned as having a 25% mortality rate, yet viewers don't meet a single person that survives contracting the virus.
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Contagion (2011) / int_1dca0b0a	type	Disaster Movie
Contagion (2011) / int_1dca0b0a	comment	Disaster Movie: The director clearly stated he was inspired by movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. That said, the actual disaster takes a backseat to the personal dramas. There's scenes demonstrating the "low level" effects of the pandemic: sealed state borders, National Guard curfews, looting and burning of businesses, runs on basic supplies, garbage piling up, roving gangs killing people in their homes, etc. The utilities stay on, though, which is what ultimately keeps this from becoming Apocalypse How.
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Contagion (2011) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Contagion (2011) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Mears has to deal with the governor of Minnesota early on in the film. She's a subdued example, as she isn't outright blocking Mears, but she's short-tempered and questions every move if it impacts the state in any way.
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Contagion (2011) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Contagion (2011) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Midway through the film, Dr. Orantes reviews the security footage taken at the casino where Beth was believed to have contracted the virus, and finds that she interacted with (and took pictures of) several people during a party (but can't identify which one would have had the virus). Later on, Mitch finds her camera, and cries as he goes through the pictures, stopping at a picture Beth took with the casino's chef. In the final scene, a flashback to Day 1, we see how the virus was transmitted - it was carried from an infected bat to a pig, which was subsequently sold to the casino and transmitted to the chef, who transmitted it to Beth when they shook hands. Jordan is texting to someone (presumably Andrew) who mentions they are 3 (meaning this person will receive the vaccine on Day 3 of the immunization drive). Later on (at least 3 days later), Mitch sets up a date between Jordan and Andrew, Andrew is seen with his vaccination bracelet.
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Contagion (2011) / int_23a79ebf	type	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Contagion (2011) / int_23a79ebf	comment	Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Bryan Cranston has a fairly substantial role as a Rear Admiral with the Department of Homeland Security (and was already a star thanks to his work on Breaking Bad), yet is nowhere to be seen in the marketing.
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Contagion (2011) / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Contagion (2011) / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Jude Law's character is given a snaggletooth to foreshadow the revelation that he's a crook and a liar.
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Contagion (2011) / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Contagion (2011) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: It's mentioned the virus has claimed several children, and one does die on-screen (Mitch's son Clark). There were doubtless many more over the six or so months the film covers. One of the first places MEV-1 (an invisible airborne disease with 25% mortality and no treatment) spreads is an elementary school. Exemplified in Mitch Emhoff spending the rest of his movie trying to keep his daughter away from any possible source of infection.
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Contagion (2011) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Contagion (2011) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Lorraine's baby, given that her pregnancy might have been far along for an emergency c-section before she died and placenta fluid often protects unborn children from their mothers ailments. The virus itself only has about a 25% mortality rate, meaning that any sick character the audience doesn't see die (John Neal's wife, Aaron Barnes, Dr. Hextall's father) may very well have survived.
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Contagion (2011) / int_29fb4ade	type	Withholding the Cure
Contagion (2011) / int_29fb4ade	comment	Withholding the Cure: While this doesn't happen, some believe that it does — it is one of the destructive rumors that fly around on the internet, and it feeds the paranoia of certain characters. This is used by Krumwiede, who then directs bloggers to get a drug made from Forsythia, which is not a cure.
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Contagion (2011) / int_2dbc1855	type	Ghost City
Contagion (2011) / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: San Francisco and Hong Kong are shown to be mostly deserted.
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Contagion (2011) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Contagion (2011) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: As much of a jerkass and a fraud that Krumwielde is he does look upset when he discovers that Lorraine has died.
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Contagion (2011) / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Contagion (2011) / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Krumwiede, who claims he'll do anything to get the right scoop, and turns out to have been faking effective treatment so he can make lots of money.
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Contagion (2011) / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Contagion (2011) / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: As evidenced by the autopsy, Beth died this way.
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Contagion (2011) / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Contagion (2011) / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The trailer makes it seem like Matt Damon's character is leading the plot. They also imply some sort of government conspiracy surrounding the virus.
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Contagion (2011) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Contagion (2011) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: This movie showcases how a pandemic brings out both the very best and the very worst in people. Health care officials, doctors, and scientists work tirelessly, including putting themselves in harm's way, to try to stop the spread of the disease, care for the sick, and develop a vaccine. Most people do seem to want to help or be there for others in anyway they can, but sometimes fear and panic takes over and they make poor, irrational decisions that make an already bad situation worse. And then there are the people who see a pandemic as a way to gain fame, notoriety, and money.
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Contagion (2011) / int_3805cb6	type	Tracking Shot
Contagion (2011) / int_3805cb6	comment	Tracking Shot: When Krumwiede runs through a park (with police and CDC officials in pursuit) after discovering his hedge fund broker was wearing a wire and tipped off the authorities.
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Contagion (2011) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Contagion (2011) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Mitch goes through the pictures on Beth's camera at the end of the film, the last few are of her shaking hands with a chef. A minute or so later, it is revealed that this specific interaction was the origin of the virus.
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Contagion (2011) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Contagion (2011) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: At one point a Minnesota health official complains to Dr. Mears that his wife is forcing him to use the garage like an airlock, changing clothing before coming inside. She has to be overreacting, right? Mears' response: No. Dr. Cheever concedes this is also true of the nurse strike. They're fundamentally right - there is no way to adequately protect them (Cheever considers MEV-1 a BSL-4 threat, which means spacesuits) and they are, in effect, being asked to die.
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Contagion (2011) / int_3b8e6af3	type	Karmic STD
Contagion (2011) / int_3b8e6af3	comment	Karmic STD: Of sorts. because he had an affair with Beth, John Neal became one of the first to become infected with the virus and die.
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Contagion (2011) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Contagion (2011) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Krumwiede for using his blog to convince others to buy a drug that doesn't work, and later protesting a vaccine that does.
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Contagion (2011) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Contagion (2011) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Mitch, his daughter Jordan, and Andrew, the boy she liked, manage to survive, but Beth was Patient Zero, and her son, Dr. Mears, and a lot of other people paid for itnote Cheevers says one in twelve people will be infected, and the virus is stated to have a mortality rate of 25-30%. That works out to be between 156 and 187 million people dead.. Krumwiede may or may not get punished for his role in the deaths of potentially thousands of people. Dr. Cheevers is also probably going to be used as The Scapegoat by Congress, but heâ€™s able to redeem himself in his own eyes by giving his dose of the vaccine to a young boy who likely wouldnâ€™t have gotten vaccinated otherwise.
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Contagion (2011) / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Contagion (2011) / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: In-Universe example. The earliest victims of the virus are treated this way by their loved ones. Mitch in particular is completely stunned at the sudden and unexpected death of his wife without even knowing what caused it. He has such trouble processing the news that he asks the doctor if he can talk to Beth even after the doctor tells him she died.
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Contagion (2011) / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Contagion (2011) / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Sussman 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 Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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. Hextall later injects herself with an untested but viable vaccine sample, since the proper procedure would have taken many times longer to get results. It works, ultimately stopping the pandemic.
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Contagion (2011) / int_441bd048	type	Patient Zero
Contagion (2011) / int_441bd048	comment	Patient Zero: Beth. At the end, the chain of events leading to Beth and the other known first cases getting infected is shown.
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Contagion (2011) / int_442e3d95	type	Professor Guinea Pig
Contagion (2011) / int_442e3d95	comment	Professor Guinea Pig: One of the CDC scientists injects herself with an experimental vaccine for the virus. It works.
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Contagion (2011) / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Contagion (2011) / int_471a505f	comment	When Dr. Cheever is informed that the virus' R-nought has increased to 4 - measles or polio level of infectiousness, and four times more infectious than the flu.
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Contagion (2011) / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Contagion (2011) / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: While he's constantly abrasive, at the beginning of the movie, Krumwiede is one of the first people to become aware of the virus, trying to warn people before it spreads wide (albeit partially for his own career). Then, he begins to unnecessarily spread hysteria, hampering efforts to fight the disease, while profiting off of it all the way.
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Contagion (2011) / int_4802c03d	type	Bad Influencer
Contagion (2011) / int_4802c03d	comment	Bad Influencer: Krumwiede is a blogger that claims to be an Intrepid Reporter. He's also a Conspiracy Theorist that disrupts the doctors trying to do their jobs, slows down their progress, and peddles the bunk "cure" of Forsythia to make money, which causes potentially hundreds (if not thousands) of additional deaths.
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Contagion (2011) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Contagion (2011) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: An early scene has a pair of doctors peeling Beth's scalp up over her decayed face, with the inside of her scalp clearly visible, and cutting her skull open to take a look inside (with audible "sloshing" sound effects). Contagion is a PG-13 film, which makes it all the more shocking.
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Contagion (2011) / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Contagion (2011) / int_4e52a624	comment	Sussman 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 Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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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Contagion (2011) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Contagion (2011) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Dr. Mears coughing in her hotel room as she's become infected with the virus. How Beth really came in contact with the virus. The chef meeting her didn't bother to wash his hands after handling an infected butchered pig for dinner.
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Contagion (2011) / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Contagion (2011) / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The virus is unleashed upon the world by bulldozing a forest, done by the corporation Beth works for.
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Contagion (2011) / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Contagion (2011) / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Subverted. There is no such conspiracy, but Krumwiede is determined to convince every single person he can that there is one, and he'll use any medium that will give him a soapbox to stand on. It later turns out he's the one doing the lying; the more the public buys his theories the more he will profit from pushing his bogus cure.
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Contagion (2011) / int_5c3c800f	type	The Immune
Contagion (2011) / int_5c3c800f	comment	The Immune: Mitch Emhoff. There are a few others, but offscreen.
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Contagion (2011) / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Contagion (2011) / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Dr. Cheevers is a kindhearted, empathetic Reasonable Authority Figure who does everything in his power to help stop the virus. The one time he exploits his power, by warning his wife to leave Chicago, Krumwiede uses it to get him branded as a scapegoat.
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Contagion (2011) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Contagion (2011) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Several doctors, contracting the disease by saving others from it and in many cases dying from it themselves. The one who used the untested vaccine on herself first survives, however. Cheever giving his dose of the vaccine to his friend's son instead of himself as a result of feeling bad for his mistake earlier in the film.
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Contagion (2011) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Contagion (2011) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Dr. Orantes is horrified when her associate tells her that Sun Feng's village including many children received placebo vaccinations. He fairly points out that governments around the world can't be seen as rewarding or encouraging abductions, especially by organized crime groups to ransom actual vaccines. Krumwiede does initially make some good points about the dangers of the virus and how pharmaceutical companies can put profits ahead of peoples' lives...even if his response to this is to basically do the same thing. Despite being a online scam artist selling a bogus cure to the disease he also accurately points out that Dr. Ellis Cheever has abused his power to get his loved ones out of danger.
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Contagion (2011) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Contagion (2011) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In the last scene, we find out the origins of the virus and how Beth contracted it.
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Contagion (2011) / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Contagion (2011) / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Zigzagged. While the vaccine development is unusually fast, it is the modern world's greatest emergency and still shown to be in such short supply that there is a public lottery and widespread criminal desperation to jump the line. On the other hand, it is very unlikely that any crash vaccine program could outrun the upgraded R-nought of 4.
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Contagion (2011) / int_70e8a55a	type	No FEMA Response
Contagion (2011) / int_70e8a55a	comment	No FEMA Response: Averted. The CDC and FEMA really get rolling when they realize how bad the disease has become, but their efforts are constantly constrained by both time, limited supplies, a panicking public, government distrust, and medical personnel going on strike.
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Contagion (2011) / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Contagion (2011) / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Mitch loses his wife and stepson to a then-unknown virus in less than a single day. Then he discovers during questioning by Mears that his wife was having an affair and may have contracted the disease from her ex (even though she didn't he had no way of knowing this). Then he has to learn that Beth and Clark can't be buried on the family plot due to fears of spreading the virus. Then he has to deal with an increasingly strained relationship with his restless daughter while also dealing with the collapse of society during quarantine in his home city. Everyone suffers during the virus but among the survivors Mitch get the worst of it by far.
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Contagion (2011) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Contagion (2011) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Dr. Sussman exits his building while loudly discussing sensitive information on a phonecall, which is then overheard by Krumwiede. His dialogue also implies that this isn't the first time Krumwiede has ambushed him at work. Dr. Cheever makes it very clear to his wife that she should quietly leave Chicago and drive straight to Atlanta, without stopping or talking to anyone. Cut to: a scene of her bulk-buying emergency supplies in a supermarket and telling her friend confidential information about the impending quarantine of the city, which leads to Cheever being called out on TV for giving preferential treatment to his loved ones. Dr. Cheever himself also gets overheard having this conversation by Roger!
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Contagion (2011) / int_7582930a	type	Hollywood Science
Contagion (2011) / int_7582930a	comment	The vaccine development. Rhesus macaques are one of the most common test animals for vaccine work, because their immune systems are extremely similar to that of humans, much more so than rabbits, rats or other experimental animals. The vaccine scenes suffer only from Hollywood Compression.
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Contagion (2011) / int_76c7754f	type	All of Them
Contagion (2011) / int_76c7754f	comment	All of Them: During the autopsy on Patient Zero, the moment they take a look at what's left of her brain.
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Contagion (2011) / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Contagion (2011) / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Dr. Hextall, which her co-worker pokes fun at early in the film. Even after she's hailed as a hero for finding the vaccine, she'd rather spend her time following vaccine distribution than spend a few minutes on-camera (though part of that is being a Humble Hero).
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Contagion (2011) / int_7831b670	type	Gaia's Vengeance
Contagion (2011) / int_7831b670	comment	Gaia's Vengeance: The final scene reveals the epidemic to be one of the metaphorical variety. A construction company bulldozer disturbs the natural habitat of some bats, setting off a chain of events that result in the virus being unleashed on the entire world. Starting with a director at the company, no less.
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Contagion (2011) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Contagion (2011) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The end sequence shows the chain of events that caused the pandemic. If any one of those links had been broken, it might never have happened.
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Contagion (2011) / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Contagion (2011) / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Krumwiede and his blog are the focus of this. Sussman goes so far as to call his blog "graffiti with punctuation", partly because Krumwiede is harassing him. Krumwiede blames corporations and government organizations at every turn. This increases when Krumwiede turns out as a massive internet celebrity with a major amount of influence on the public's opinions on the virus and the cure... namely, by encouraging people to look into alternative treatments and stirring up paranoia over the vaccine, later claiming he's been cured by forsythia, and essentially killing more people by inducing paranoia of the new vaccine. He seems to be a critique on how blogs spread skewed rumors, and tend to be trusted more than educated opinion, plus obviously conspiracy theorists and or/certain alternative medicine advocates.
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Contagion (2011) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Contagion (2011) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A subtle and unintentional example: some of the initial attempts to contain the virus are done in ways that would easily spread it. For example, Minnesota shuts its schools down mid-day, gathering the students together in hallways and then putting them on crowded buses. Doctor Mears also tells one of Bethâ€™s infected colleagues, traveling to work on a bus, to leave it immediately, causing him to stumble off, touch everything, and then attract passer-by who try to help him.
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Contagion (2011) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Contagion (2011) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The end of the film shows how the virus started—a bulldozer (owned by the company Beth worked for) knocked down a tree, disturbing some bats in the process. One of the bats flies off to a banana tree and eats some bananas. The bat then dropped some of the banana into a pigs' pen, where the banana was eaten by a piglet. Later, the pig was harvested, killed and prepared for cooking. The chef handling the raw pig meat opted to wipe his hands on his apron rather than wash them and shook hands with Beth, transferring the mix of bat and pig viruses to her and starting the pandemic.
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Contagion (2011) / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Contagion (2011) / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Itâ€™s left unclear what happens to Sun Fengâ€™s village, since he was given a placebo rather than the real vaccine. Dr. Orantes is last seen on her way to warn them, but depending on when she gets there itâ€™s possible several villagers could contract the virus.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8390cdf1	type	Contamination Situation
Contagion (2011) / int_8390cdf1	comment	Contamination Situation: Mitch is exposed to others who died from the virus, and is isolated pending any possible symptoms. He's immune. This becomes a running theme in the first half, where the main characters struggle to track down the chain of infection, both globally and with individual infectees.
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Contagion (2011) / int_854601b3	type	Government Procedural
Contagion (2011) / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: The film gives the viewer a look at how the CDC (a US federal government agency) and WHO (an intergovernmental UN agency) would handle a supervirus. Several crises that must be overcome involve local and federal bureaucracy.
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Contagion (2011) / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Contagion (2011) / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Beth is portrayed this way by her mother, who insists that despite her mistakes she loved Mitch very much. We don't learn much about Beth herself but she seems happy to see Mitch and Clark when getting home from her trip.
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Contagion (2011) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Contagion (2011) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After being kidnapped by a Chinese epidemiologist, Dr. Orantes is rescued, then runs through an airport to warn the people who kidnapped her they received a fake cure for her release and is never seen again.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Contagion (2011) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: A scene begins with a close-up of Dr. Cheever's wife looking sweaty and disheveled, which has been visual shorthand throughout the movie to convey that someone has the virus. Turns out, she doesn't; she looks that way because burglars have broken into her home looking for the vaccine they think is there.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
Contagion (2011) / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: A global map splotched with red shows the infection's predicted spread to major cities all over the world.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8bb55271	type	Hazmat Suit
Contagion (2011) / int_8bb55271	comment	Hazmat Suit: Justified, varying by resources. Most people would like a better grade of protection than what they can come up with.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Contagion (2011) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: 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 not particularly upsetting. Also counts as an unusual example of Sex Signals Death.
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Contagion (2011) / int_8ef5ae81	type	Lethally Stupid
Contagion (2011) / int_8ef5ae81	comment	Lethally Stupid: 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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Contagion (2011) / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Contagion (2011) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Krumwiede feels genuinely guilty when he realizes that his attempt to make money off of peopleâ€™s fear has resulted in the death of Lorraine, one of the few people he cares about, but continues exploiting people and justifying himself.
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Contagion (2011) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Contagion (2011) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: A bulldozer owned by AIMM outside Hong Kong destroys a forested area so it can be developed. This causes a bat to move to a barn where it infects a pig with the disease. The pig is slaughtered and taken to a kitchen, and while a cook prepares it, he is interrupted to meet a businesswoman and shakes her hand, causing her to become Patient Zero. The important woman, of course, works for AIMM. Sun Feng kidnaps Leonora Orantes for the vaccine for his village, but ends up getting a bunch of placebos John Neal ends up being one of the very first infected with MEV-1, and it is implied that he's also one of the first casualties. This wouldn't have happened if he hadn't had an affair with Beth in the first place.
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Contagion (2011) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Contagion (2011) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: A Class 1. Hundreds of millions of people have died by the end, but the pandemic is eventually stopped, the world recovers, and life goes on as if this never happened.
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Contagion (2011) / int_94f517db	type	Discretion Shot
Contagion (2011) / int_94f517db	comment	And when the pathologists get a look at Beth's MEV-ravaged brain during her autopsy:
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Contagion (2011) / int_9521acf7	type	The Scourge of God
Contagion (2011) / int_9521acf7	comment	The Scourge of God: The first person to die of the disease was committing adultery at the time. Make of that what you will.
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Contagion (2011) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Contagion (2011) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The titular contagion is one of the "omnipresent situation" variety — it isn't sentient (or alive for that matter), but even so it stirs up the conflict and causes all the problems the protagonists work to solve.
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Contagion (2011) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Contagion (2011) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Dr. Mears lecturing the various officials of the Minnesota Department of Health on Epidemiology 101.
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Contagion (2011) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Contagion (2011) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Beth as Patient Zero, as well as most of the early people she infects. She became Patient Zero in the first place because the chef didn't wash his hands after butchering the pig carrying the mutant virus.
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Contagion (2011) / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Contagion (2011) / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Death by Cameo: Gwyneth Paltrow, who dies about five minutes into the film, though she appears occasionally in flashback sequences.
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Contagion (2011) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Contagion (2011) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: If Krumwiede was supposedly "cured" of the virus by taking Forsythia, why does he still walk around in a jury-rigged hazmat suit for most of the film? And why doesn't he give Forsythia to the female reporter from the beginning of the film? And what's with the "Prophet / Profit" signs? When first showing the female reporter the video of the man dying of the virus on the bus, Krumwiede says "Print media is dying. I'll save you a spot on the bus." The reporter later dies of the virus, in no small part due to Krumwiede lying about Forsythia being a cure, as she gets infected at a clinic handing out Forsythia.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
Contagion (2011) / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: Due to nurses going on strike during the height of the MEV pandemic; this was hinted as being due to the futility of "putting healthy people next to sick people" with no biocontainment protocol in effect.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Contagion (2011) / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Cheever's introduction is his conversation with one of the CDC janitors about getting help for the janitor's young son for an ADHD diagnosis. And of course, giving the janitor's son Cheever's assigned vaccination instead.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a4247647	type	Hilarity Sues
Contagion (2011) / int_a4247647	comment	Hilarity Sues: It is implied that Krumwiede is going to be subject to a lot of lawsuits after people realize he lied about forsythia to make a profit.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a4328a91	type	For Inconvenience, Press "1"
Contagion (2011) / int_a4328a91	comment	For Inconvenience, Press "1": Mitch hears several gunshots and sees a group of burglars exiting the house across from his, so he calls 911. Unfortunately, they're so overburdened that the system has been replaced with an automated helpline which is primarily designed to aid people in dealing with the outbreak, rather than deal with common crime.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Contagion (2011) / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Dr. Sanjay Gupta cameos in an interview with Dr. Cheever.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Contagion (2011) / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: Dr. Orantes is kidnapped and held hostage to ensure that a large group of uninfected people will get a cure for the virus. However, when the film switches back to her story later in the film, the audience sees that she seems to be working as a schoolteacher and genuinely cares for the children in the village. Then she learns that the vaccines given for her release were fake, and runs off to warn them at the end.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Contagion (2011) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Defied: Despite Mitch and Beth's mother wanting a proper burial, the local funeral home refuses to bury Beth on the basis that they may get infected with the virus as well. When Mears dies and is buried in a mass grave, her colleague places flowers by her.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Contagion (2011) / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Dr. Hextall.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Contagion (2011) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Alan Krumwiede, who fakes being sick in order to promote a drug that supposedly (but doesn't) cures the disease, and profits big time from it. He's arrested by Homeland Security, but is bailed out by his online followers and encourages more people not to vaccinate. It's unclear whether he'll meet justice or not after the film's events. He still has to face trial, though, so there's that. Itâ€™s also implied that, once people realize he lied about forsynthia, heâ€™s going to be the subject of multiple lawsuits that will result in him losing the money he made off it. Also Sun Feng, who gets away (at least on-screen) with kidnapping Orantes, although the vaccine he gets turns out to be a placebo.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a737743c	type	Caged Bird Metaphor
Contagion (2011) / int_a737743c	comment	Caged Bird Metaphor: Early in the film, the camera focuses on a small cage of colorful songbirds right before an infected man boards an elevator crammed with people wearing similarly bright-colored clothes.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a808063f	type	Black-and-White Insanity
Contagion (2011) / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: Krumwiede seems to consider himself to be an Intrepid Reporter and firmly believes all of the professionals doing their best to help are actually trying to keep the virus going for their own ends, and encourages others to take this viewpoint. Subverted later on, where he reveals that he doesnâ€™t believe any of this and just wants to make money off of people. Even then, he continues to justify this to himself, claiming that since other people have made money this way throughout history, itâ€™s okay for him to do it, too.
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Contagion (2011) / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Contagion (2011) / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff.
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Contagion (2011) / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Contagion (2011) / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: AIMM, the company Beth works for and whose logo looms in several scenes. While not in any way purposely malevolent, the company's deforestation of the area the first infected bat was residing in was what caused it to spread the infection.
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Contagion (2011) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Contagion (2011) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: "Merry Christmas," the theme that plays when Mears dies and her body is placed in a mass grave while the other CDC technician discusses ordering more body bags from Canada, is oddly uplifting. It becomes more appropriate the next time it plays, when Dr. Hextall finds a vaccinated rhesus monkey that survived, injects herself with the vaccine, and goes to her father's isolation ward for a successful test.
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Contagion (2011) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Contagion (2011) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Soon after Beth dies, Mitch learns on the phone that his son Clark has fallen ill. When Dr. Cheever is informed that the virus' R-nought has increased to 4 - measles or polio level of infectiousness, and four times more infectious than the flu. Cheever and Dr. Mears have one when they each find out that she's been infected with the virus. And when the pathologists get a look at Beth's MEV-ravaged brain during her autopsy: Mears gets one when Aaron Barnes tells her that he's exhibiting viral symptoms and that he's on the bus - meaning he just infected a large number of people. When Dr. Orantes learns 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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Contagion (2011) / int_afe698ea	type	Plot-Inciting Infidelity
Contagion (2011) / int_afe698ea	comment	Plot-Inciting Infidelity: 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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Contagion (2011) / int_b1ce5419	type	The Brigadier
Contagion (2011) / int_b1ce5419	comment	The Brigadier: The Rear Admiral who heads the department of Homeland Security, played by Bryan Cranston. He's only brought in after the virus kills a CIA outpost, but nonetheless, tries to help.
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Contagion (2011) / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Contagion (2011) / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Of a sort. Orantes is kidnapped and brought to a remote Chinese village by Sun Feng in an effort to bargain for vaccines. It's far from a luxurious place to be technically imprisoned but she's treated very well, bonds with the villagers, becomes a teacher and sympathizes with them enough to warn them when she discovers that they received placebos.
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Contagion (2011) / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
Contagion (2011) / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: Reconstruction. The medical/scientific community works hard at containing and stopping the virus, and aside from some Artistic License, is generally portrayed the way real doctors and scientists would operate in this kind of situation.
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Contagion (2011) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Contagion (2011) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: 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 Hollywood Science 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.
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Contagion (2011) / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
Contagion (2011) / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures: 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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Contagion (2011) / int_b8eb11d7	type	Definitely Just a Cold
Contagion (2011) / int_b8eb11d7	comment	Definitely Just a Cold: In the opening, Beth dismisses her little cough as this, even as she is visibly sweating and not looking quite well. Then she dies not long after returning home from her trip.
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Contagion (2011) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Contagion (2011) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Everything Krumwielde does is for his own enrichment. Even the rare moments where he makes a decent point - such as accurately pointing out that Dr. Cheever abused his power to get his loved ones out of a quarantine - is done to make him look more credible for his own benefit. This becomes especially clear when he's exposed for lying about forsythia being a cure.
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Contagion (2011) / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
Contagion (2011) / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: Beth right before she keels over at home.
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Contagion (2011) / int_bcd5bc72	type	Handshake of Doom
Contagion (2011) / int_bcd5bc72	comment	Handshake of Doom: At the end of the movie, it rewinds to show that Beth contracted the disease via a handshake with a chef who hadn't washed his hands. And like that, millions of people - including Beth herself, her son, and her lover - all died.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c0068b0f	type	FlowerMotif
Contagion (2011) / int_c0068b0f	comment	Flower Motif: Whenever there is personal loss or tragedy, look for the yellow flowers. One of the first detected clusters is in the Chrysanthemum Complex in China. Forsythia, a homeopathic cure for MEV-1, is the name of a yellow colored bush. When Dr Mears is placed into a mass grave after dying of MEV-1, their colleague holds yellow flowers to mourn.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Contagion (2011) / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: Lorraine is pregnant when she contracts the virus. She does not survive.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Contagion (2011) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Early in the film, Dr. Mears exasperatedly tells one of her colleagues to stop touching his face, especially since it was established that viruses can spread through fomites. She winds up dying despite all of her efforts and knowledge in tracing and stopping the spread of MEV-1, while the colleague is last seen in completely good health and has presumably survived by the end of the film.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Contagion (2011) / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Most of the scientists, who go above and beyond (even working while afflicted with the virus as Dr. Mears does and making themselves into human guinea pigs for the vaccine, in Doctor Hextall's case) to research a vaccine.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c3cdd2b8	type	Water Source Tampering
Contagion (2011) / int_c3cdd2b8	comment	Water Source Tampering: Inverted when the government wants to know if dumping the cure in the water supply will suffice as a quick means of curing everyone. Dr. Hextall simply ignores the question when Cheever relays it.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Contagion (2011) / int_c75df49a	comment	The plot-line about the vaccine scare? A Shout-Out to the MMR vaccine scare in which one 'researcher' fabricated results and caused massive distrust of both that particular vaccine and all others just to get rich. Said actions also went unpunished, and caused many deaths, though not as many as in the movie.
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Contagion (2011) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Contagion (2011) / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: As fits his anti-government/science paranoia, Krumwiede immediately assumes this trope applies, even though we see for ourselves that the epidemic starts quite naturally, with a wild bat infecting a pig.
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Contagion (2011) / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
Contagion (2011) / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Dr. Cheever says so when the janitor asks if he can treat the guy's son for ADHD, but adds that he will refer the kid to someone.
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Contagion (2011) / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Contagion (2011) / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Overlapping with Out-of-Genre Experience - Bryan Cranston's character pops in to debrief Cheever on what the virus is doing to US spies (namely, killing a CIA outpost), injecting an odd bit of Spy Fiction into the movie.
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Contagion (2011) / int_cde96a62	type	Booked Full of Mooks
Contagion (2011) / int_cde96a62	comment	Booked Full of Mooks: Krumwiede meets up with a confidant in a public park to make excuses for himself regarding Forsythia. 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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Contagion (2011) / int_d21f3d5d	type	Justified Criminal
Contagion (2011) / int_d21f3d5d	comment	Justified Criminal: Despite living in a deserted neighborhood (with only a handful of other residents left), Mitch never takes anything more than a rifle from his neighbor's house to protect himself and Jordan. Only two other times is he given an opportunity to steal. The first time, at the supermarket, looters have already stripped most of it. Although willing to take some needed supplies, he gives up when an infected woman appears there, deeming it not worth the risk. The second time, during the looting of the FEMA truck, he's the only person on-scene rational enough to realize that the looters are breaking into an empty truck.
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Contagion (2011) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Contagion (2011) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Everyone's response to Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) abusing his power and position at the CDC to warn his wife to leave Chicago before the quarantine went into effect. It's effectively used by Krumwiede to instill distrust in the government.
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Contagion (2011) / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Contagion (2011) / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: An In-Universe example, and unfortunately a very realistic case of such at that. After profiteering off of the epidemic by promoting a false vaccine, Alan Krumwiede is bailed out of prison by his online followers who paid for his release through individual donations.
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Contagion (2011) / int_d46899fc	type	Business Trip Adultery
Contagion (2011) / int_d46899fc	comment	Business Trip Adultery: At the beginning of the film, Beth's on the phone with someone other than her husband, thanking the person for a nice night. Unbeknownst at the time, she was already sick with the virus she caught in Hong Kong. Following her death, Mitch (her husband) learns her ex-boyfriend caught the virus at a similar time, and he puts two and two together.
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Contagion (2011) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Contagion (2011) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Krumwiede, who rants at length about how the government officials trying to stop the virus are in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies and spreads paranoia and distrust among civilians, and then sells out to the pharmaceutical companies himself and starts exploiting peopleâ€™s fears to make money and justifying it to himself.
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Contagion (2011) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Contagion (2011) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Alan claims that if each person is infecting 2 others, on the first day 2 people will be infected, then 4, then 16, then 256, then 65,536 and so on. Of course, in reality, if you have 256 infected people, and they each infect 2 people, the next day you'll have 512 new cases, not 65,000. The correct number sequence is 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... note Technically, assuming the infection started with 1 person, you'd want 1 less than this, so 1, 3, 7, 15, 31..., but the progression would still be based on this slower growing series. In other words, he wants a geometric progression, not a quadratic. He explicitly quotes results based on the proper series later in the scene (he says it would take a month to infect a billion people, and sure enough, 2^30 is just over a billion. Using the incorrect series, it would take a week — indeed, just one day after 65,536 were infected you'd have 4,294,967,296 cases). This may be intentional, as Alan is an untrustworthy gossiper who's falsifying a cure on behalf of alternative medicine companies to rake in profit.
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Contagion (2011) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Contagion (2011) / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Dr. Cheever becomes the scapegoat for the whole affair thanks to warning his wife about getting out of Chicago, in spite of having done his best to contain the virus outside of that. At the very least, heâ€™s allowed to continue to have his position until the virus is dealt with, and after Dr. Hextall finds the cure, itâ€™s implied heâ€™s going to be kicked out of his position at best.
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Contagion (2011) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Contagion (2011) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: All the main authority figures are doing their best, in spite of constant criticism from Alan Krumwiede that they are in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies. However, several doctors are forced to override orders when they get in their way, showing that the system isn't perfect.
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Contagion (2011) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Contagion (2011) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Dr. Mears is set up as a potential hero early on in the film. Then she gets sick and disappears for a chunk of time, only to be revisited as she tries (in vain) to give her jacket to a fellow patient just before she dies.
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Contagion (2011) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Contagion (2011) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Krumwielde starts the film as a struggling conspiracy theorist and blogger who has to yell and ambush people to get any attention. Despite his arrest at the end of the film he's got 12 million unique viewers, gets interviewed on at least one major news network and can potentially have a huge impact on how many people get vaccinated based on how many people trust him.
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Contagion (2011) / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Contagion (2011) / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Many scenes are tinted green or blue or yellow.
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Contagion (2011) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Contagion (2011) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Krumwiede seems to be based on infamous embezzler and writer Kevin Trudeau, who's become controversial for his claims of having the cures for cancer and other diseases. And like Krumwiede, he's Only in It for the Money.
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Contagion (2011) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Contagion (2011) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Since you can't really hate the actual antagonistic force of this film (a nonsentient virus), Krumwiede fills the slot of a legitimately unlikable villain by constantly undermining legitimate relief efforts, pushing conspiracy theories on fake science, and being a toady for homeopathic corporations by pushing a fake cure.
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Contagion (2011) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Sun Feng wanted to protect the remaining people in his village from the virus. For him, this meant kidnapping Dr. Orantes and taking her to his village for over a hundred days. By the looks of it Orantes was treated quite warmly by the villagers.
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Contagion (2011) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The one time Krumwielde isn't an abrasive jerk is when he's confronted by a deathly ill Lorraine, whom he sincerely urges to go home. He also notably tries to wave off her pleas for forsythia rather than easily make a quick buck off her by giving her a fake cure.
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Contagion (2011) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The film is a relatively scientifically accurate portrayal of a pandemic: The fictional MEV-1 virus is based on the real life Nipah virus (which does cause pneumonia-like symptoms and seizures). The film's portrayal of how the pandemic began: "The wrong bat met the wrong pig", is actually how epidemiologists theorized the original 1999 Malaysia Nipah outbreak began (an infected bat dropped a piece of half-chewed fruit into a pig pen, the pig ate the bat-saliva-laced fruit and got infected, and passed the disease to humans who butchered the pig). The molecular biology of the virus: genome size, number of genes, even identifiable splice sites from different strains of the virus (bat vs. pig) pretty much match up with how viruses work in the Real World. Its inability to replicate in standard cell culture is also a feature of some real world viruses, such as Hepatitis-C. The vaccine development. Rhesus macaques are one of the most common test animals for vaccine work, because their immune systems are extremely similar to that of humans, much more so than rabbits, rats or other experimental animals. The vaccine scenes suffer only from Hollywood Compression. The plot-line about the vaccine scare? A Shout-Out to the MMR vaccine scare in which one 'researcher' fabricated results and caused massive distrust of both that particular vaccine and all others just to get rich. Said actions also went unpunished, and caused many deaths, though not as many as in the movie. MEV-1 getting stored next to Smallpox and samples of other well-known lethal viruses. Such archives actually exist in military BSL-4 facilities such as Fort Detrick, MD, and in civilian ones such as the NIH's Rocky Mountain Labs. Generally, though, the security level is much greater than the one shown.
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