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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
“IT KEYS INTO A PARANOIA, THAT IS
PERHAPS NOT SO PARANOID...EVERYBODY
FEELS THAT NOWADAYS IN THIS COUNTRY”
BROOKE ADAMS “There was a very weird event that
happened just before we got there,” reveals
Cartwright. “These spiders and webs started
to fall from the sky and they were shrouding
all the trees... it was a weird phenomena
that happens every 50 years. So, that article
Donald Sutherland is clipping out in the movie
about things fl oating around and falling
down was an actual event that happened
the week before we got up there. Therefore,
why can’t this web have turned into these
fl owers and be insidious? Why can’t it be
something like that?”
As Art Hindle highlights, the hippie
generation started in San Francisco, giving
further credibility to the paranoia. “I think it was
one of the reasons Kaufman wanted to remake
it because it certainly played into the times, the
Seventies with the paranoia and particularly
with San Francisco,” he says. “That’s why it
was an ideal setting for that and why the story
played so well to people – they could relate
and say: ‘Yeah, I felt like that! My family’s been
body snatched!’”
In fact, Cartwright and Goldblum’s
characters in particular were conceived as
leftovers from that generation. “It was the
Seventies and we were like hippies and were
doing all these sort of health rituals,” continues
Cartwright. “I think my character was the only
one who sort of realised how you could beat
this infringement; you couldn’t sleep and why
do we always think that things come in metalships? They don’t have to do that they can
be the most gorgeous fl ower and send out
tentacles and sort of take over.”
True to form, it is Nancy who, come the
climax, remains the apparent sole surviving
human being left, making the fi nal twist even
more shocking. “At the end of the movie when
Donald Sutherland’s character screams at me I
just freaked out! Both of us were told different
things, so when he was revealed to have turned
into one of them I fl ipped out!” remembers
Cartwright. “My character was the voice of
reason... I even thought they might make a
sequel, as she’s taken every precaution not to
be found out and ensured nobody else was
around, but of course, I did not know Donald
was going to do that!”
Looking back, Art Hindle thinks one
of the reasons Kaufman’s Invasion Of The
Body Snatchers is held in such high regard
is how it authentically captures the times: “I
was a closet hippie in the Seventies and I
think paranoia was our favourite word and it
certainly plays on that particular paranoia.”
“It keys into a paranoia, that is perhaps
not so paranoid, about being taken over,”
considers Brooke Adams. “This feeling that
things are weird... everybody feels that
nowadays in this country. Things are so
strange. The fi lm defi nitely has a way of
sneaking up on you and making you
paranoid about what’s really going on
in the government.”Brooke Adams’ Elizabeth
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
“IT KEYS INTO A PARANOIA, THAT IS
PERHAPS NOT SO PARANOID...EVERYBODY
“IT KEYS INTO A PARANOIA, THAT IS
PERHAPS NOT SO PARANOID...EVERYBODY
“IT KEYS INTO A PARANOIA, THAT IS
FEELS THAT NOWADAYS IN THIS COUNTRY”
BROOKE ADAMS “There was a very weird event that
happened just before we got there,” reveals
Cartwright. “These spiders and webs started
to fall from the sky and they were shrouding
all the trees... it was a weird phenomena
that happens every 50 years. So, that article
Donald Sutherland is clipping out in the movie
about things fl oating around and falling
down was an actual event that happened
the week before we got up there. Therefore,
why can’t this web have turned into these
fl owers and be insidious? Why can’t it be
something like that?”
As Art Hindle highlights, the hippie
generation started in San Francisco, giving
further credibility to the paranoia. “I think it was
one of the reasons Kaufman wanted to remake
it because it certainly played into the times, the
Seventies with the paranoia and particularly
with San Francisco,” he says. “That’s why it
was an ideal setting for that and why the story
played so well to people – they could relate
and say: ‘Yeah, I felt like that! My family’s been
body snatched!’”
In fact, Cartwright and Goldblum’s
characters in particular were conceived as
leftovers from that generation. “It was the
Seventies and we were like hippies and were
doing all these sort of health rituals,” continues
Cartwright. “I think my character was the only
one who sort of realised how you could beat
this infringement; you couldn’t sleep and why
do we always think that things come in metalships? They don’t have to do that they can
be the most gorgeous fl ower and send out
tentacles and sort of take over.”
True to form, it is Nancy who, come the
climax, remains the apparent sole surviving
human being left, making the fi nal twist even
more shocking. “At the end of the movie when
Donald Sutherland’s character screams at me I
just freaked out! Both of us were told different
things, so when he was revealed to have turned
into one of them I fl ipped out!” remembers
Cartwright. “My character was the voice of
reason... I even thought they might make a
sequel, as she’s taken every precaution not to
be found out and ensured nobody else was
around, but of course, I did not know Donald
was going to do that!”
Looking back, Art Hindle thinks one
of the reasons Kaufman’s Invasion Of The
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is how it authentically captures the times: “I
was a closet hippie in the Seventies and I
think paranoia was our favourite word and it
certainly plays on that particular paranoia.”
“It keys into a paranoia, that is perhaps
not so paranoid, about being taken over,”
considers Brooke Adams. “This feeling that
things are weird... everybody feels that
nowadays in this country. Things are so
strange. The fi lm defi nitely has a way of
sneaking up on you and making you
paranoid about what’s really going on
in the government.”Brooke Adams’ Elizabeth
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Brooke Adams’ Elizabeth
looks for a way out.