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Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.Thriller psicológico sobre un novelista telequinético que provoca desastres con solo pensar en ellos.
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- TriviaJack Gold did not want Richard Burton and instead suggested Nicol Williamson for the lead role. The producers told him it would be easier to get funding with Burton, who had just made his "comeback" movie Equus (1977).
- ErroresAs Inspector Brunel watches the TV news a close-up of the screen reveals that the caption saying "Minster Cathedral" is actually stuck on to the TV screen rather than forming part of the TV picture. The letters cast shadows on to the glass.
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[last lines]
John Morlar: [voiceover] I am the man with the power to create catastrophe.
Opinión destacada
The film carries an unlikely symbolic force
Any modern-day remake of Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch would probably skew much younger in its casting and energy-level, its plot fleshed out by race-against-time set-pieces. If Gold's version works significantly better than seems likely, it's largely because of its world-weariness and sense of crusty experience, allowing its melodramatic contrivances to seem like expressions of shared frustration and common anticipation of doom. Richard Burton is among the stiffest and intemperate of leading men, so it works pretty well to cast him as a man driven by those very qualities, allowed several vituperative rants about societal hypocrisy and the general mediocrity of people individually and collectively: the premise is that he has the capacity to destroy at will, from individuals who cross him, to planes that he pulls from the sky for the hell of it (the retrospective echo of 9/11 is impossible to shut out), or even beyond that, to tamper with the workings of manned space probes. Lino Ventura (his presence on the British police force amusingly attributed to an exchange program with the French) comes in to investigate after Burton's Morlar is attacked in his home and left for dead - the film dramatizes the fruits of his investigation in flashback, interspersed with the growing anxiety as Morlar clings to life against all odds, his malicious capacities and intents possibly intact. The extensive use of other establishment actors in small parts, the alertness to time and place, and the breadth of Morlar's fury (encompassing the family, the education system, the law, the church, etc.) gives the film an unlikely symbolic force, allowing the character to embody whatever undiagnosed or unaddressed ills are slowly poisoning us. At the risk of auteur-seeking excess, it's thus tempting to see the film as a companion piece to Gold's sensational The Reckoning, which dramatizes a very different form of rage-filled triumph over the English establishment.
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- philosopherjack
- 30 ago 2018
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- También se conoce como
- The Medusa Touch
- Locaciones de filmación
- Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Minster Cathedral, London)
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 49 minutos
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- 1.85 : 1
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