Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. Norman felt a burst of tremendous elation. The narrator of Moby-Dick has an encounter with a giant squid: Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. "You know," Beth said, "we're the first people in human history to see a free-swimming giant squid. They’re at least 25 centimetres (10 inches) across, making them the largest eyes on the planet. It was almost as if she'd been doused in smelling salts. It soon transpires that the ship has been there for more than 300 years. "Thirty yards," Tina said. "So much for theory," Norman said. He'd just never really paid attention before. The jukebox sci-fi movie wasn’t exactly new. There must have been a fire here, he thought, staring at the damage in astonishment. Since he named names, his friends are hired: Ted Fielding the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber), Harry Adams the mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson), and Beth Halperin the marine biologist (Sharon Stone) who also happens to be Norman’s former patient. "I don't know the answer to that, sir." I had just woken up, and I had had this dream about being rescued, and I was lying in bed when I heard footsteps and he walked into the room." "Get out!" They heard the gurgling, the rush of water over the hydrophones, as the squid came closer. As a three-hour Russian film, it was still relatively unseen other than among film devotees. It was strong as hell. Beth frowned. It’s hard to know who to fault for what in the awful production of this adaptation. Total body count in the movie - four. Potentially, as the crew descends into the depths of the water, their environment steadily closes in on them. A giant transparent orb discovered by a team of deep-sea divers off the coast of Norway was home to hundreds of thousands of soon-to-be squid hatchlings. Through a hilarious series of logic leaps, they quickly interpret the code as a numerical representational of spherical reflection of an QWERTY keyboard. "Yes, you could." But, they leave it alone. Finally Norman said, "Bad fires?" He had gone into E with Tina to put out the fire. Giant squid males don't use a modified arm (hectocotylus) to transfer sperm like most squid; instead, the spermatophore (sperm packet) is expelled from a penis, which sticks out through the funnel and can be as long as the animal's mantle, up to 7 feet long. start to feel claustrophobic as your reading about how confining the habitat on the ocean floor is. Ben Ahles spent months gluing 42,000 matches together to create a giant sphere, then set it on fire. I don't think that Jerry is a giant squid, but Jerry created the giant squid that attacked us. "But I don't think he intends to be hostile." "Is it a squid?" She was just screwing her psychiatrist, Norman, who also happened to be married and she’s a bit bitter about that. Maybe it is meant to be deceptive and devious. Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. "Kill everything." Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, ... At this point, members of the team start to die in various attacks by giant squid, and the dwindling band of survivors struggle in their dealings with the unthinkably powerful, childlike, and temperamental alien entity. He moved toward the sound. Jerry, are you listening?" "No. "Last resort only." "You sleeping here now?" Beth said, "How bad can a fire be? "Maybe he's leading us. Norman stood and shouted, "Yahoo! "I think there is another possibility. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site! "Why are you so interested in this tape?" There was no sign of a submarine outside. Harry tugged at Norman just as the second tentacle burst above the surface to hold Ted in a pincer grip. Our first hints that Levinson’s Sphere may have missed the point of the novel are delivered right at the beginning, in the title credits. The moving tentacles and arms were clear. By contrast, Levinson’s sphere is just a gold round CGI ball with a 1990s liquid gold texture mapped all over it. Adams finds his way into the sphere; after he emerges, it starts communicating via the habitat's computer, claiming to be hosted by an alien named "Jerry." Neon Nettle - UK based independent alternative news and information magazine and online media source | giant squid "Not yet." The squid was faintly luminous, the entire body a deep green. "Besides, I saw him, too." The squid matched the pattern. The first message, however, is hilarious. Tina was screaming in terror. Norman turned and fled. "And I've seen these." AFTERMATH In the end, our team of assholes scientists finally shack up in the naval habitat at the bottom of the ocean. I just said it looks cozy." "Which is?" Just rest now." "Yes," Beth said. He got slowly to one knee, and then to his feet. The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae.Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of deep-sea gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at 12 m (39 ft) or 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles (longer than the colossal squid … The Sphere (1987) is Michael Crichton’s metaphor for his own mind. But, in the name of realism, Levinson already puts everybody in tight quarters before they’re even debriefed. We have air and water and heat and power. As an American film starring George Clooney, it still hadn’t been made. There was no sign of the black crewman. "Do you think they'll ever get the sphere open?" The squid's brain is located behind the eye, which is about fifteen inches across, the size of a big dinner plate. The Italians had been perfecting the genre for decades through the 70s and 80s. Now he cupped his hands by the sides of his face to block out the low light coming from Tina's consoles, waited for his eyes to adjust. You won't remember the last few minutes before the shock. "Three of us have died." Cute? I've got most of the systems going, I think. "So what do we do?" Log of ships in active service shows no vessel currently designated Sea Hornet." "Who will be making the report, sir?" Up at the top of the cylinder - I feel like the queen of the underworld." Later, Danny Boyle would make Sunshine, a compendium of pulpy horror and sci-fi tropes, using a self-referential wink that almost excuses the lack of originality in the face of an exquisite execution. Norman said. They hold their hands and wish away their memory of the sphere. In the book, the group of scientists, including psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, biologist Beth Halpern, and astrophysicist Ted Fielding, (along with the navy personnel) are placed in a deep sea habitat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to explore the spacecraft. The very first sign that we’re in an American space ship is the crew’s discovery of a trash bin. Intended to be the centerpiece of the new campus, the spheres would allow Amazon employees to meet and work in an airy indoor environment filled with plants and trees. Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, and Disclosure, content aside, were rather decent adaptations of their source material. The southern shortfin squid, found in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, is between 8 and 16 inches long (not including their legs). "Fire in D," Fletcher said over the intercom. Now there was just the red glow of the space heaters above them. He was staring at a bank of lights in some odd, angled perspective. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community. This deep-sea cephalopod is so seldom seen, dead or alive, that it seems mythical. The sphere in Paul W.S. It was made into the film Sphere in 1998. "You probably got a jolt of current," Beth said. She nodded. The manus is what the squid really uses to catch prey. "Off the metal! The padded walls were blackened and charred in several places. What is your name?” It’s basic, polite, and doesn’t lead with the chat room equivalent of A/S/L (What are chat rooms? His voice was high, strained with tension. You want sonar?" This kind of irrational playing with space is the downfall of Sphere. "But where did he come from?" When a giant squid kills Fielding, the team realizes what they are up against. "Why would Jerry do that? "How can he do that?" The southern shortfin squid, found in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, is between 8 and 16 inches long (not including their legs). Still the arm swung him back and forth, the cylinder ringing like a gong with each impact. The squid passed the spacecraft fin, and they could gauge its size. That's why you can't see it." Onscreen, Beth said to Tina, "You afraid of snakes?"  The first time the crew enters the ship, we’re only about 30 minutes into a 135 minute movie. Another Chricton novel, Sphere, also features a giant squid as a manifestation of a character's mind. Barnes (Peter Coyote) - Cut in half by the closing door. But he wasn't getting through. "To compensate," Fletcher said, "I've dropped the internal pressure by three centimeters' pressure. You might want to take a look at him. It looked like they had fought a war in here. Jerry?" You've seen her injury?" He's intelligent." ... Each sub has a large acrylic sphere for maximum viewability, and a full complement of special lighting and camera equipment. "He's listening!" "God, it's big," Harry said. "Oh God..." That flatness again. Alice "Teeny" Fletcher (Queen Latifah) - Killed by attacking jellyfish. They coughed and stumbled, banged into the consoles. He was very calm. "But it can be killed?" "Get out, everybody out, away from the metal!" In the face of such awfulness, the bigger question becomes, “is Sphere camp?” Some of the dialogue hints at intentional camp. Behind them, Tina said, "Eighty yards and closing ... Sixty yards. The water at his feet glowed a soft green. "I keep telling you. I honestly can’t remember, and I haven’t read the novel since. Fletcher said. Maybe it’s Barry Levinson’s fault. The manus is what the squid really uses to catch prey. Similar to the above color scheme, the naval habitat has more than a passing resemblance to the Nostromo in Alien. Starfish Aliens: The sphere itself, if it is indeed a living creature. The giant squid is a member of the cephalopods ("head-foot"), the class of marine animals that also includes the cuttlefish, the octopus, and the chambered nautilus. They could see each other in the glow through the portholes. Should be very unpleasant for any animal." Norman asked. A post shared by @benahlesahles on Feb 8, 2018 at Ted shouted. "Jerry? And if the oxygen percentage is high, then fires burn just fine - three times faster than topside. Norman said. The remaining 70 minutes is a complete mish-mash of a wide variety of other influences. You were with her in E. I don't know why it flooded." "Tina mentioned something about a leaf, a brown leaf." The crew is now able to communicate with the sphere and vice versa. The opening credits play out over a montage of old world sketches of sailboats being attacked by monsters and  close ups of piranhas and other fishes with sharp pointy teeth. Also the smell: you remember the smell when we pulled her back in?" "The giant squid has two tentacles that extend out much further than the arms, as long as forty feet. "Ten yards." Even through the forced terrible witticisms – upon feeling the door, Beth remarks “Is there heat coming off this thing, or is it just happy to see me?” – we’re still with Levinson on this rehash of Alien. Norman asked. Harry becomes obsessed with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, of which he could only finish 84 pages. It felt like catching a submarine. There he is. Adam Greenberg are constantly alternating between claustrophobic and spacious framing, with little thematic rhyme or reason for why one scene is all close-ups and why another has the most empty space in the world. "He certainly acts hostile, Ted." "Just a minute ..." It’s actually a top-down close-up of the helicopter before it expands into the wide open shot. And, it was kind of scary as hell. " - Because the Green Box has problems," Fletcher said. There's a little box in B that electrifies the metal walls of the cylinders at all times, to prevent electrolytic corrosion. They all considered the implications of that. As a teenager in 1998, I certainly had not heard of Solaris in any capacity. It's all automatically controlled; you can't override it. To spy on us?" Look, we all know this is an Alien rip-off, and Levinson was obviously trying to go for the same color scheme as Alien, but check out Ridley Scott’s clarity compared to Levinson’s reveal of his ship. "Even if we get the fires under control, they're hell on the systems," Fletcher said. Very slight electrical charge, you aren't really aware of it. Considering only the mass is distributed to organizational willing to modify the gaits of the century complaints were made that it has started microsofts organizational microsoft has largely written off its fading reputation as advocates for children, a school princi or guidelines. "Does this mean we're living life to the fullest?" Norman tried to remember how long dark-vision accommodation required. He recommends that we assemble a marine biologist (for some reason), an astrophysicist, a mathematician (math would be the common communication), and a psychologist (because the aliens would be confused). A giant squid attacks the habitat, breaking the outer barrier and causing fires. "I was just thinking that," Norman said. "You think I'm cracking up?" "Yes." "Whatever he intends," Fletcher said, "we better not go through another attack. "Still coming." So, why a gold ball? : The DreamWorks Animation Movie You Will Never See, I’m Determined to Keep Crackin’: Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021, Miller’s 2020 Double Features: Do the Evolution. This man's arrival at the habitat could mean only one thing - the surface ships must be back! "Jerry!" But, greed never comes into play in this movie. "They're intelligent animals; they have the ability to learn from experience. "Did he wake up? He saw dim patches of red flame, hazy through the smoke. Animals. "Then should we kill the electronics?" Ted blinked three times. The split sensibility between horror and camp really weighs down a movie, keeping it from becoming a fondly remember anything. Fletcher was shouting. ©2014 - 2016 The-Solute | Hosted, Developed and Maintained by BellinghamWP.com. "It's topside now?" Anyway, the smoke's clearing and the air quality is reading all right - not great, but all right - and all the vital stuff seems to be intact. "I'm telling you, he's intelligent," Ted said. "Sort of like a tree house when you were a kid. Beth stopped the tape, turned to Norman. Oh July 9th, 2015 a group of lucky divers happened upon something truly remarkable–A 4-meter-wide clear sphere floating off the coast of a small town in Turkey. A green glow in the distance. The outline grew larger. Giant squid, which can grow longer than 40 feet, are one of the most mysterious species on Earth. They turned off both the interior and exterior lights. Another cough, from among the pipes. He couldn't find a fire extinguisher but his hands touched something metal on the wall and Norman felt it in the smoky darkness, wondering what it was, some kind of protrusion, and then two million volts surged through his limbs into his body and he screamed once, and fell backward. When had this happened? Beth said, "As far as I know, there's only one animal that smells of ammonia that way. Ted shouted, and he grabbed a flashlight off a wall bracket and shined it out the porthole. He heard Fletcher on the intercom but her voice was scratchy and unclear. As he approached Beth's lab, he heard Tina's recorded voice say, "Do you think they'll ever get the sphere open?" This should be a great moment." They behave similarly to Jellyfish enemies in the way they move and attack. He's intelligent and he wants to talk." The squid appeared to hesitate. "He got a jolt, too, I think. "Thank you, sir." He turned away, spraying the floor burning at his feet. It's starting, and this time we can't survive it. Ted blinked his light twice in rapid succession. She gestured to some white eggs in a glass container on the lab bench. "You could tell something wasn't right about him." "I've got to keep him talking," Ted said. A prop egg used in the 1998 Michael Crichton sci-fi thriller movie Sphere. Damn it, off the metal!" The tentacle swung back toward Norman. The narrator of Moby Dick has an encounter with a giant squid: Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. ... of the Gelatinous Sphere … Things are about to get perfectly overdramatic when the sub finally makes a pass by the spaceship, interrupting the oncoming airing of grievances. If you directed an explosive charge into the animal anywhere in that area, you would almost certainly disrupt the nervous system and it would die." "Jerry! Anyway, there's another, green box attached to that one, and it's the HVDS. "Just now, Sir." "It seems to me that Jerry has the ability to create things. Let's not worry about reports now. Anderson’s horror film was the ship’s hyperdrive that opened up dimensional rifts to allow the spaceship to make long distance jumps to the far ends of the universe. He was unprepared for the explosion, the concussion pounding his ears painfully. "It's a kind of skin cell called a chromatophore," Beth said. To keep water from coming in, I had to increase the pressure of the air inside the habitat to make it greater than the pressure of the water outside. Beth said. Did you ever have a tree house when you were a kid?" But he was funny. "Yes, but it must have been tested." Thank God the Navy has instructions printed on the housings. So the attack happened as a kind of accident of creation." "High Voltage Defense System. "We've had a rough time," Norman said. "I can think of only one possibility," Ted said. "Yes, Tina?" "Yes," Beth said. They say that comparing a novel to a movie is a fool’s errand, but Crichton’s novels are so basic that they feel like they should leap from the page to the screen fairly intact. Fletcher was shouting, and they stepped onto the carpet of B Cyl and she threw the switch on the Green Box and there was a hum from the generators and the red heater banks dimmed as two million volts of electricity surged through the habitat. "Jerry, are you listening? "Sir?" "The fires take the padding off!" As the squid came closer, Norman could count the arms, and he saw the two long tentacles, glowing lines extending far beyond the body. Car-sized ball of squid eggs filmed off the coast of Turkey. But what kind of squid, specifically, could produce a mass this big? "For one thing, it's really sort of theoretical. "Yes, sir." Event Horizon‘s Sphere O’ Doom was an shiny metallic ball with black spiked bands that circled it like a gyroscope in a room full of silver and black spikes. The squid egg mass of similar size has been reported only once. "Yeah." They are very small, round and transparent.” Upon boarding the Event Horizon, the crew discover a video diary entry straight out of Hellraiser. They battle with the giant squid … Wah-wahhhh. The movie version Sphere did not live up to anybody’s expectations, least of all those who really liked the novel. The pounding continued, and the horrible wrenching of metal. Behind him, Tina and Fletcher were working with the monitors. We're saved!" "Fire in E Cyl!" Ted had died. Ted (Liev Schreiber) - Burned by the fire during the giant squid attack. The seaman went away. I AM COMING. Have they been told you're here?" "Another attack ..." There was a long silence as they considered that. "Of course, nobody knows how strong they are, since a living specimen has never been encountered. Ted - Killed by the tentacles of the squid. "Neither did I," Beth said. To Norman, the explanation was entirely too convenient. normal swimming position of the giant squid is horizontal, so that the animal's dorsal side is at the top and its ventral side is at the bottom. They all followed Ted, from D into C Cyl. The giant squid sees the world with eyes the size of soccer balls. He heard the hiss of the hydrophones in the room. * * * Dustin Hoffman and Huey Lewis open the film in a helicopter. And, eventually Beth does the same thing. "Careful, Ted." The squid still blinked its glowing body in reply, but Norman sensed it had another purpose now. "I've been thinking about this," he said. It's as big as a house, Norman thought. His eyes and lungs burned, despite the mask. "Do you think Barnes killed the squid?" He was sitting on the floor in D Cylinder. "Fire!" He blinked the light once. Where was his own extinguisher? The glow increased in intensity, and then they saw an amorphous green shape with lateral streaks. Hoffman plays a psychologist, Norman Goodman [groan], who thinks he’s being flown to an airplane crash site to help the survivors. It doesn’t look otherworldly, it just looks shiny and made of liquid gold (the scientists say it looks like mercury, but mercury is grey!). She nodded. He was doing his best to elevate a crap screenplay by making it into a genuine horror movie. Wow! They can somehow lay a giant sphere, around one meter (3 feet) in diameter, that's filled with eggs. By the end of this sequence, all we know about this ship is that it is huge compared to the transport. In the center of the crown is a mouth with a sharp beak, like a parrot's beak, except the jaws are seven inches long." The adaptations of Crichton’s stories up to this point had been relatively successful. "It scares me." In secret, one by one, Norman, Beth, and Harry are attracted to the sphere. Beth said. The Sea Hornet, sir." "Why didn't we use it before?" "He's intelligent," Ted said. Our air will last us. Then the gas-plasma screens on Tina's console jumped, and a soft pinging filled the room. He remembered going into the room, seeing the flames lick up the side of the walls. All the console lights went out. "More eggs?" "Which is?" ask your parents). "What's he doing?" The opening shot isn’t actually the afore-displayed wide open shot. The end. The sphere was 22 meters below the sea surface, and even up … "I don't know." The squid is a homage to the one in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and in-story is because the movie scared Harry as a kid. And the radula - the tongue of the squid - has a raspy, file-like surface." "North. Anyway, he's lying on the floor in C, either sleeping or unconscious. Maybe we have worms in our body? "There he is, big as life, on the monitor." "That's what attacked us?" The suckers on the manus are surrounded by a little hard ring of chitin, which is why you see the circular toothmarks around the injury." "Yes, sir, it is." He remembered it might be as long as three minutes. And then Tina's voice came again: Perhaps it is meant to keep the audience disoriented, but the end result is that it looks like an amateur production from a first time director. The habitat is made to deliver pulses as high as sixteen percent for brief periods, four times an hour. It probably didn't like hitting the grid before, and it remembers." And, they figure out that these things attacking them are actually imaginary even though they can kill? That Jerry is hostile." "Fire in D." Jesus, Norman thought. This escape is made all the more difficult because the sphere causes them to hallucinate that they’re not in the emergency escape pod even as the explosives are set to go off. "You just keep talking to me, Jerry." He and Tina were getting the fire out, but there was still a large burning patch near one porthole. A giant squid attacks the habitat, breaking the outer barrier and causing fires. It was starting to come back to him. "Everybody out!" I've been worried we'll run out of air." Fletcher was shouting. "He can do it fast," Norman said. Norman remembered very well. It's starting, Norman thought. Directed by Barry Levinson. Beth came up as Norman peered out the porthole. "Yes. "Here he comes now." "Is there more than one in an area?" "It sounded good at the time," Norman said. Beth scrambled past them. The next discovery is of a dead body holding an individual packet of Blue Diamond peanuts (you have to have product placement somewhere!). Was he worried about a pending court-martial? "Still talking," Ted said. "Well, let's try and talk to him, for God's sake." Norman peered through the porthole, straining to see out in the darkness. When they finally reach top side, the finale is the best final laugh. “The dark mass is probably ink from the female squid, who injected it while making the sphere,” Halldis Ringvold, project leader for “Huge Spheres,” an investigation of the spherical sacs, said. "Do the others know yet?" The floor rocked under their feet as the habitat was struck by an enormous force, and Norman swore he heard a scream, though it might have been rending metal, and the tentacles quickly drew down out of the airlock. Up ahead, an angry red glow outlined the bulkhead door leading to E. Tina grabbed an extinguisher and went through the door, Norman right behind her. So where had he come from? In the lab, Beth was hunched over the console, watching the tape. Norman said, "How would you fight one?" "You see anything?" "What ship." Fletcher gave them gas masks; Norman's kept slipping down his forehead, obscuring his vision. Fires need oxygen to burn, and we've only got two percent oxygen down here." She shrugged. The body is toward us, the tentacles behind, partially blocked by the body. When the team first discovers the sphere, they treat it with respect and awe. Event Horizon had been Alien meets Hellraiser and was actually a great piece of schlocky horror. 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