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The Andromeda Strain

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The Andromeda Strain	comment	The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American sci-fi thriller film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Directed by Robert Wise, it stars Arthur Hill (Dr. Jeremy Stone), James Olson (Dr. Mark Hall), Kate Reid (Dr. Ruth Leavitt), and David Wayne (Dr. Charles Dutton) and follows the book closely (except for the names of the characters Leavitt and Dutton).The Andromeda Strain follows a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin, which has already wiped out an entire town, save two survivors.For its time, the film showed impressive special effects. Computers had advanced pen inputs that didn't behave out of character for the era.Since the movie is based on the book, tropes used in the book only appear here, or in some cases, the same trope is used differently in the book than in the movie, in which case it is lampshaded here.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Andromeda Strain / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: When Mark Hall is ordered to stop a surgery he's about to start, one of the doctors in the back of the operating room is Michael Crichton.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_1909dc30	type	Died Standing Up
The Andromeda Strain / int_1909dc30	comment	Died Standing Up: A woman is found in her home in this state.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
The Andromeda Strain / int_1eedb914	comment	Also "There's a fire" during the Avengers Assemble scene.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Andromeda Strain / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Dr. Hall is repeatedly told about Wildfire's nuclear bomb Self-Destruct Mechanism (which will go off if a disease escapes containment), how he's the only one who can stop it from detonating and how important it is that he be able to get to one of the deactivation terminals quickly. You can guess what he has to do at the ending of both the movie and novel! A fighter jet experiences a severe malfunction when it flew past Andromeda — all of its plastics dissolved, leaving its pilot helpless as the jet crashes. Andromeda quickly adapts the same form in Level Five and destroys the gaskets keeping the levels from being contaminated, quickly causing a self-destruct mechanism to activate. It is, however, completely unscientific for the organism to mutate in the wild to eat plastic and, simultaneously, in the bio-lab, to also eat plastic - in a lab which is hermetically sealed from the outside environment. But, Andromeda is a completely different organism than any on earth. As was noted in the film, it is a single substance: "Andromeda isn't composed of different materials like a normal lifeform," therefore it is plausible that the mutation it makes is the only way it can mutate.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
The Andromeda Strain / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town - a Foreshadowing of the dead bodies they will find there.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_28638961	type	Overflow Error
The Andromeda Strain / int_28638961	comment	Overflow Error: The pathologists analyzing the disease run a computer simulation of the casualties that would result if the contagion ever Escaped from the Lab. After blossoming from population hubs in the United States and Canada, the screen blanked to a single number: 601. The technician informs them that 601 means the computer can't calculate contamination levels that huge.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Andromeda Strain / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: While it rather reliably adapts the source material, there are a number of removed minor Info Dump talks (including a detail regarding the Title Drop-Wildfire's request for a codename for the organism to Central Codes specifies it was diagnosed as an infectious strain in the book (hence "Andromeda Strain"), while on the movie it is simply given by Central Codes), one additional patient that is discovered later (a cop that was passing through Piedmont when Andromeda started to spread, was spared immediate death because of his diabetes, and went psychotic on a diner later, shooting everybody and himself-this finally cements the theory that acidosis is harmful to Andromeda), and the detail that the nuclear detonation protocol would have eliminated all air from Level Five several seconds before going off. In the film, the diabetic is still mentioned; it's just that the cop is downgraded to an old war vet with diabetes (referred to as "sugar" by Mr. Jackson, the sterno-drinker) who still had time to put on his old uniform before succumbing to the plague.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Andromeda Strain / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Leavitt was a male (Peter Leavitt) in the book, but was changed to a female in the film.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_3b6ff8e	type	Freaky Electronic Music
The Andromeda Strain / int_3b6ff8e	comment	Freaky Electronic Music: The film's score is truly unsettling.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Andromeda Strain / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Andromeda simply mutates to become non-lethal. This frees up the cast to worry about other pressing matters.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_4f325546	type	Futuristic Jet Injector
The Andromeda Strain / int_4f325546	comment	Futuristic Jet Injector: When the members of the Wildfire team are undergoing decontamination procedures to enter the facility, they receive an automatic injection by a futuristic pistol-like jet injector device.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Andromeda Strain / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared:
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The Andromeda Strain / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
The Andromeda Strain / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: In the men's ultraviolet scan, their privates are blurred.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Andromeda Strain / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The opening credits showcase close-ups of a variety of government documents and forms that make sense as the plot goes on, including requisition forms for the construction of the Wildfire compound,projection schematics of the spread of Andromeda made by bio-warfare researchers, Karen Anson's (the nurse and lab assistant Hall works with) authorization for a secret-level security clearance, and the Odd Man Hypothesis research documents, showing how Hall fits in it.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_66ef1fa1	type	Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee
The Andromeda Strain / int_66ef1fa1	comment	Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: Several scenes of the film are intercut with Dr. Stone speaking to a Senate task force after the crisis and explaining how the whole situation went to hell to their utter disbelief, including Andromeda adapting to a form that ate through the state-of-the-art plastic the quarantine gaskets were made of and the compound being incommunicado from events outside of it because of a sliver of paper getting in the way of the striker and bell of the compound's main telex.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
The Andromeda Strain / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: The Wildfire compound is fitted with the most advanced technology available at the time the film was made (The '70s), and the novel even showcases some stuff like linked databases and early examples of bar codes.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
The Andromeda Strain / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The twist near the end that the SCOOP Project was searching for materials that could be turned into biochemical warfare agents in space (and sets off Leavitt and Dutton, who are both somewhat anti-establishment) is given in a backstory Info Dump on the second chapter of the novel, and none of the characters in it are concerned about that detail so much as the horror of the SCOOP-7 mission having Gone Horribly Right.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Andromeda Strain / int_7870735b	comment	After the self-destruct alarm sounds—and professional decorum deteriorates—incidental characters flee, having observing Leavitt's grand mal seizure. One assumes, "She's got the germ!"
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The Andromeda Strain / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Andromeda Strain / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: Also "There's a fire" during the Avengers Assemble scene. Dr. Charles Dutton uses Type 3 to enter Project Wildfire.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_7f421e71	type	Mistaken for Undead
The Andromeda Strain / int_7f421e71	comment	Mistaken for Undead: Hall makes it past the knockout guns but is on the verge of losing consciousness. He pleads for help from the staff on that floor, but they're convinced from the way he's staggering he has the virus and flee instead.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_7fe66618	type	You Can See That, Right?
The Andromeda Strain / int_7fe66618	comment	You Can See That, Right?: Ruth to Dr. Stone while they're examining the green stain on the meteorite when it suddenly becomes purple for a split second and grows (minutely, but it does) as they watch.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_861ac58a	type	This Is No Time for Knitting
The Andromeda Strain / int_861ac58a	comment	This Is No Time for Knitting: In the opening, the pair in biohazard suits are investigating the corpses littering the town:
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The Andromeda Strain / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Andromeda Strain / int_868afe72	comment	Covert Group with Mundane Front: The Department of Defense's Wildfire laboratory, a five-story underground facility, is located in the (fictional) town of Flatrock, Nevada, below a U.S.Department of Agriculture research station. In the novel, Hall, as the Audience Surrogate, is told that the research facility is a real station and is developing a strain of corn that would grow well in desert-like conditions (a crop of barley in the film). Anyone who visits will even get a tour of the station if they want to allay suspicion. The same goes for the seeming lack of security; none is visible besides a chainlink fence, a guy opening and closing the gate and another older man at the main desk. While it looks lacking on the surface, it is there in the form of hidden sensors, radar and silent attack dogs preventing a covert approach or an overt intrusion.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
The Andromeda Strain / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: An early vector map of North America (think Atari's Battle Zone) calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_8bb55271	type	Hazmat Suit
The Andromeda Strain / int_8bb55271	comment	Hazmat Suit: Hall and Stone wear one when exploring the town of Peidmont. Later, Hall and Nurse Karen Anson wear these when examining and treating Jackson and the baby.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_8fe0659e	type	Infection Scene
The Andromeda Strain / int_8fe0659e	comment	Infection Scene: Dr. Stone shows what happens to a monkey as it's exposed to Andromeda: the doctors and the viewers are shown the exposure and death as all the money's blood coagulates in seconds.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
The Andromeda Strain / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: Inverted — The film starts with this message (interestingly enough, this is one of Crichton's Creator Thumbprints):
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The Andromeda Strain / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Andromeda Strain / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Dr. Hall is first given the key to prevent the nuclear device from detonating if the computer controlled auto countdown starts, he thinks it would be his job to initiate it.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_a87b8c8c	type	Typeset in the Future
The Andromeda Strain / int_a87b8c8c	comment	Typeset in the Future: The Eurostyle Bold Extended font (or near equivalent) is used for a lot of wall signage in the Wildfire labs.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_aa44e237	type	ASCII Art
The Andromeda Strain / int_aa44e237	comment	ASCII Art: The computer graphics - hot stuff at the time.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
The Andromeda Strain / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: While investigating the town of Piedmont, Stone discovers a man who, quite calmly, leaned over a bathtub and held his own head underwater. Stone looks at this, and says, incredulously, "I wouldn't believe someone could commit suicide like that."
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The Andromeda Strain / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Andromeda Strain / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Dr Leavitt often doesn't take a lot of things happening in the Wildfire complex or what is expected seriously. On noticing the crops at the isolated U.S. Department of Agriculture research station which conceals wildfire, she says "Great place to grow pot." Later, Leavitt ducks looking at a flashing hazard light on a construction sawhorse, and to hide the real reason for not looking (she has epilepsy) she says, "I never did like red lights. Reminds me of my years in a bordello." The old man, Peter Jackson, when the doctors are having a problem with gasket failures and alarms are going off, looks at the camera and says to Hall and Stone, "Hell of a way to run a hospital!"
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The Andromeda Strain / int_af35d39	type	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode
The Andromeda Strain / int_af35d39	comment	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode: Dr. Mark Hall has to run the gauntlet of the central core's self-defense safeguards to reach a point where the self-destruct mechanism can be deactivated.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
The Andromeda Strain / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: Didn't exist in 1971 when the movie was made, but the four scientists can be tracked by the electronic diagram, anywhere in the Wildfire complex. Today, you could do it with an RFID chip embedded in their clothing.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
The Andromeda Strain / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: As it says on the original poster (shown above), "Rated G but may be too intense for younger children."
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The Andromeda Strain / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
The Andromeda Strain / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures After the self-destruct alarm sounds—and professional decorum deteriorates—incidental characters flee, having observing Leavitt's grand mal seizure. One assumes, "She's got the germ!" Less dramatically (but of more significance to the plot) she'd had an absence seizure while monitoring lab results. When a substance is found to inhibit Andromeda's growth, red text flashes on a screen: causing Leavitt to "blank out" for a few seconds. She reports to her colleagues that no cultures were affected.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Andromeda Strain / int_bc00493f	comment	Made funny because the old man says it like a Precision F-Strike.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_c36dad12	type	Decontamination Chamber
The Andromeda Strain / int_c36dad12	comment	Decontamination Chamber: There is a long sequence in one of these while the scientists are entering Wildfire, done to prevent any outside contaminants from getting inside. (There is a similar long sequence in the book.)
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The Andromeda Strain / int_c69ae9b2	type	Self-Destruct Mechanism
The Andromeda Strain / int_c69ae9b2	comment	Dr. Hall is repeatedly told about Wildfire's nuclear bomb Self-Destruct Mechanism (which will go off if a disease escapes containment), how he's the only one who can stop it from detonating and how important it is that he be able to get to one of the deactivation terminals quickly. You can guess what he has to do at the ending of both the movie and novel!
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The Andromeda Strain / int_c6eabb03	type	Gosh Dang It to Heck!
The Andromeda Strain / int_c6eabb03	comment	Goshdang It To Heck: When Hall asks the old man the baby's name, the following exchange ensues: Made funny because the old man says it like a Precision F-Strike.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Andromeda Strain / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Seems to be Dutton's reservation about the Wildfire Project. In a flashback he's shown giving a lecture positing that intelligent life in space may actually exist on the microscopic scale, and warns the others that in curing Andromeda they may be destroying "a highly intelligent form of life." It all becomes moot when they determine that, whether Andromeda can consciously think or not, its presence will ultimately wipe out humanity.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
The Andromeda Strain / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Wildfire compound-composed of five levels, each level more sterilized than the last, with top-of-the-line (for its time) bio-warfare research and computer equipment and a nuclear self-destruct.
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The Andromeda Strain / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
The Andromeda Strain / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: The topless hippie girl who is amongst the Piedmont casualties, and we get a long shot of her upper body on the montage of said casualties being checked by the Wildfire team. Considering that she's dead, it's more Fan Disservice.
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