that this a remake of the original! It seems to me that Hollywood has run out of ideas (Gasp!)!
-----"Side? I am on nobody's side because nobody's on my side, little Orc."-----
-Treebeard: The Two Towers
Yes it is unfortunately.
shareAnd the original was a remake of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
shareand a few Twilight Zone episodes, too. "Owl Creek Bridge" was shown on TWZ, too, btw.
. . . there's always room for Jello!
yes and no. The original story, i read in an interview with Rubin was not a dream.
It was end times happening in a real, biblical way. HORROR. Jacob (and every one else) was watching a scourge of horror unleashed across the land-which also had a kind of Bhuddist philosophy going on in the background
The story was revised at the insistence of Lynne, and for now, all you can get is the screenplay in print, which has the 'Owl Creek' story line.
Yet the film tries to have it both ways
Was this all a feverish dream Jacob was having in the last minutes of his life?
If so, how could he even have known about the BZ subplot?-Government testing, the Chemist-all of which the dream makes rather irrelevant. That makes it seem real world.
For awhile, I thought that "The Chemist" was Jacob's alter ego and his conscious in the form of a ghost. I was under the impression that Jacob had created the BZ gas and was unknowingly present when it was tested on his platoon at the beginning of the film.
I finally got a glimpse of Jacob's college degree and it wasn't in chemical engineering. It's a liberal arts degree. So I abandoned that theory.
The BZ subplot really had no place in the movie other than to make some unfounded conspiratorial comment about the Vietnam War.