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1997 moving-picture show directed by Andrew Niccol

Gattaca
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrew Niccol
Written by	Andrew Niccol
Produced past	Danny DeVito Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher Gail Lyon
Starring	Ethan Hawke Uma Thurman
Cinematography	Sławomir Idziak
Edited past	Lisa Zeno Churgin
Music by	Michael Nyman
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Bailiwick of jersey Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	October 24, 1997 (1997-x-24) (U.s.)
Running time	112 minutes[one]
State	United States
Languages	English language Esperanto
Budget	$36 million[two]
Box role	$12.v million[3]

Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction thriller film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his filmmaking debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles.^[four] The motion-picture show presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the all-time hereditary traits of their parents.^[5] The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics programme and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of going into space.

The film draws on concerns over reproductive technologies that facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for social club. Information technology likewise explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it tin and does govern lives. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their identify in the world and who they are destined to be co-ordinate to their genes.

The picture show'south title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which represent guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.^[six] It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Honour for Best Fine art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

Plot [edit]

In the "non-too-distant" future, eugenics is common. A genetic registry database uses biometrics to classify those created as "Valids" while those conceived naturally and more susceptible to genetic disorders are known as "In-Valids". Genetic discrimination is illegal, but in practice genotype profiling is used to identify Valids to qualify for professional employment while In-Valids are relegated to menial jobs.

Vincent Freeman was conceived naturally and his genetic profile indicates a high probability of several disorders and an estimated lifespan of thirty.2 years. His parents, regretting their conclusion, utilize IVF, PIGD, and genetic engineering science in creating their second child, Anton. Growing upwardly, the two brothers often play a game of "chicken" by swimming out to sea as far as possible, with the offset one returning to shore considered the loser; Vincent always loses. Vincent dreams of a career in space travel but is always reminded of his genetic inferiority. One day, Vincent challenges Anton to a game of craven and beats him. Anton starts to drown and is saved past Vincent. Shortly afterward, Vincent leaves home.

Years later, Vincent works as an In-Valid, cleaning office spaces including that of spaceflight conglomerate Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. He gets a chance to masquerade as a Valid by using donated hair, skin, claret and urine samples from former swimming star Jerome Eugene Morrow, who was paralyzed subsequently being hitting by a car. With Jerome's genetic makeup, Vincent gains employment at Gattaca, and is assigned as navigator for an upcoming mission to Saturn's moon Titan. To muffle his identity, Vincent must meticulously groom and scrub downwards daily to remove his ain genetic textile, pass daily Deoxyribonucleic acid scanning and urine tests using Jerome'due south samples, and hibernate his heart defect.

When a Gattaca administrator is murdered a week before a possible launch, the law find 1 of Vincent'due south eyelashes virtually the criminal offence scene. Recognizing it equally from an In-Valid rather than an employee, they immediately assume the owner to be a suspect and launch an investigation. During this, Vincent becomes close to a co-worker, Irene Cassini, with whom he shares a mutual allure. Though a Valid, Irene has an adventitious higher risk of center failure that volition bar her from whatsoever space mission. Vincent as well learns that Jerome's paralysis is self-inflicted; after placing silver in the Olympics, Jerome threw himself in forepart of a machine. Jerome maintains that he was designed to be the best, yet withal wasn't, and suffers under the 'burden of perfection'.

Vincent repeatedly evades the grasp of the investigators. It is finally revealed that ane of Gattaca's directors (Josef) killed the mission director because he threatened to cancel the mission. Vincent learns that the detective who closed the case was his brother Anton, who consequently has discovered Vincent's presence at Gattaca. The brothers encounter, and Anton warns Vincent about his illegal actions, just Vincent asserts that he has gotten to this position on his ain merits. Anton, unwilling to believe this, challenges Vincent to a final game of chicken. Equally the two swim out at nighttime, Vincent's stamina surprises Anton, and Vincent reveals that he won by non saving energy for the swim dorsum. Anton turns back and begins to drown, merely Vincent rescues him again and swims them both back to shore, proving to Anton that his status does not define him.

On the 24-hour interval of the launch, Jerome reveals that he has stored enough Deoxyribonucleic acid samples for Vincent to concluding '2 lifetimes' upon his return, and gives him an envelope to open 'upstairs'. After saying goodbye to Irene, Vincent prepares to board only discovers at that place is a terminal urine test, and he currently lacks whatever of Jerome'southward samples. He is surprised when Dr. Lamar, who oversees wellness checks, reveals that he knows Vincent has been posing every bit a Valid. Lamar admits that his son looks up to Vincent and wonders whether he, genetically selected but "not all that they promised", could exceed his potential merely every bit Vincent has. The doctor changes the test results, allowing Vincent to pass. As the rocket launches, Jerome dons his pond medal and immolates himself in his home's incinerator; in space, Vincent opens the note from Jerome to notice a lock of Jerome'southward hair. As the motion picture ends, Vincent muses that "For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess, I'yard suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Mayhap I'm not leaving; maybe I'chiliad going home."

Bandage [edit]

• Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman, impersonating Jerome Eugene Morrow
  • Mason Hazard equally young Vincent
  • Republic of chad Christ as teenage Vincent
• Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini
• Jude Law equally Jerome Eugene Morrow
• Loren Dean as Anton Freeman
  • Vincent Nielson as young Anton
  • William Lee Scott as teenage Anton
• Gore Vidal as Director Josef
• Xander Berkeley equally Dr. Lamar
• Jayne Brook as Marie Freeman
• Elias Koteas every bit Antonio Freeman
• Maya Rudolph as Commitment nurse
• Blair Underwood as Geneticist
• Ernest Borgnine as Caesar
• Tony Shalhoub equally German
• Alan Arkin as Detective Hugo
• Dean Norris equally Cop on the Beat
• Ken Marino equally Sequencing technician
• Cynthia Martells as Cavendish
• Gabrielle Reece as Gattaca Trainer

Product [edit]

The pic was shot under the working championship The Eighth Day, a reference to the seven days of creation in the Bible. However, by the time its release was scheduled for the fall of 1997, the Belgian pic Le huitième jour had already been released in the United states under the title The Eighth Day. As a outcome, the film was retitled Gattaca.^[seven]

Filming [edit]

The exteriors (including the roof scene) and some of the interior shots of the Gattaca complex were filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's 1960 Marin County Borough Centre in San Rafael, California.^[viii] The speakers in the complex broadcast announcements both in Esperanto and English language; Miko Sloper from the Esperanto League of N America went to the recording studio to handle the Esperanto part.^[9] The parking lot scenes were shot at the Otis Higher of Art and Design, distinguished by its punch card-like windows, located near Los Angeles International Drome. The outside of Vincent Freeman's house was shot at the CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Other exterior shots were filmed at the bottom of the spillway of the Sepulveda Dam and outside The Forum in Inglewood. The solar power plant mirrors sequence was filmed at the Kramer Junction Solar Electric Generating Station.

The motion picture is noted for its unique use of color. Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak employed vibrant gold, dark-green, and electric bluish tones throughout the pic, and shot the film in Super 35mm format, which adds an enlarged layer of grain.

Blueprint [edit]

The moving-picture show uses a pond treadmill in the opening minutes to punctuate the swimming and futuristic themes.^[x] The production blueprint makes heavy employ of retrofuturism; the futuristic electric cars^[xi] are based on 1960s car models like Rover P6, Citroën DS19 and Studebaker Avanti.^[12]

Title sequence [edit]

The opening title sequence, created past Michael Riley, features closeups of body affair (fingernails and hair), which are later revealed to be from Vincent'south daily actual scourings, hitting the floor accompanied by loud sounds equally the objects strike the footing. According to Riley, oversized models of the fingernails and hair were created for the effect.^[13]

Music and soundtrack [edit]

Gattaca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album past Michael Nyman
Released	Oct 21, 1997 (1997-10-21)
Genre	Contemporary classical music, moving picture scores, minimalism
Length	54:55
Label	Virgin Records America
Producer	Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman chronology
Concertos (1997) Gattaca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1997) The Suit and the Photograph (1998)

The score for Gattaca was composed by Michael Nyman, and the original soundtrack was released on October 21, 1997.^[14]

Release [edit]

Box office [edit]

Gattaca was released in theaters on October 24, 1997 in the United States by Columbia Pictures and opened at number 5 at the box role; trailing I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil's Abet, Kiss the Girls and Seven Years in Tibet.^[15] Over the first weekend the pic brought in $4.3 million. It ended its theatrical run with a domestic full of $12.5 meg against a reported production budget of $36 million.^[xvi]

Abode media [edit]

Gattaca was released on DVD on July 1, 1998,^[17] and was also released on Superbit DVD.^[eighteen] Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray versions were released on March 11, 2008.^{[19] [20]} Both editions comprise a deleted scene featuring historical figures like Einstein, Lincoln, etc., who are described equally having been genetically deficient.^[16]

Gattaca was released on Ultra Hd Blu-ray in 2021.^[21]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

Gattaca received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film received an approval rating of 81% based on 64 reviews, with a rating average of 7.1/10. The site's critical consensus states that "Intelligent and scientifically provocative, Gattaca is an absorbing sci-fi drama that poses important interesting ethical questions about the nature of science."^[22] On Metacritic, the motion-picture show received "generally favorable reviews" with a score of 64 out of 100, based on twenty reviews.^[23] Roger Ebert stated, "This is 1 of the smartest and most provocative of scientific discipline fiction films, a thriller with ideas."^[24] James Berardinelli praised it for "energy and tautness" and its "thought-provoking script and thematic richness."^[25]

Although critically acclaimed, Gattaca was not a box function success, but information technology is said to have crystallized the contend over the controversial topic of human genetic applied science.^{[26] [27] [28]} The film's dystopian delineation of "genoism" has been cited by many bioethicists and laypeople in back up of their hesitancy about, or opposition to, eugenics and the societal acceptance of the genetic-determinist ideology that may frame it.^[29] In a 1997 review of the picture show for the journal Nature Genetics, molecular biologist Lee 1000. Silver stated that "Gattaca is a motion picture that all geneticists should see if for no other reason than to understand the perception of our trade held by and so many of the public-at-big".^[30]

Accolades [edit]

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Academy Awards	All-time Art Management	January Roelfs Nancy Nye	Nominated
Fine art Directors Gild Award	Excellence in Production Design	Jan Roelfs Sarah Knowles Natalie Richards	Nominated
Bogey Awards	Bogey Award		Won
Gérardmer Film Festival	Special Jury Prize	Andrew Niccol	Won
	Fun Bays		Won
Golden Globe Awards	Best Original Score	Michael Nyman	Nominated
Hugo Awards	All-time Dramatic Presentation	Andrew Niccol	Nominated
London Movie Critics' Circle Awards	Best Screenwriter of the Year		Won
Paris Moving picture Festival	1000 Prix		Nominated
Satellite Awards	Best Art Direction and Production Blueprint	Jan Roelfs	Nominated
Saturn Awards	Best Costume	Colleen Atwood	Nominated
	Best Music	Michael Nyman	Nominated
	Best Home Video Release		Nominated
Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival	Best Move Moving picture	Andrew Niccol	Won
	All-time Original Soundtrack	Michael Nyman	Won

Legacy [edit]

Television series [edit]

On October thirty, 2009, Variety reported that Sony Pictures Television was developing a idiot box accommodation of the characteristic pic as a one-60 minutes constabulary procedural set in the future. The bear witness was to be written by Gil Grant, who has written for 24 and NCIS.^[31]

Influence on In Time [edit]

Writer-director Andrew Niccol has called his 2011 film In Time a "bastard child of Gattaca".^{[32] [33]} Both films feature classic cars in a futuristic dystopia as well as a caste privilege schism which the protagonist challenges and which prejudices the authorities into neglecting a thorough investigation in favor of condemning the protagonist.

Political references [edit]

U.S. Senator Rand Paul used near-verbatim portions of the plot summary from the English language Wikipedia entry on Gattaca in a speech at Liberty University on October 28, 2013 in support of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's campaign for Governor of Virginia. Paul accused pro-choice politicians of advocating eugenics in a manner similar to the events in Gattaca.^{[34] [35]}

Transhumanism [edit]

In the 2004 democratic transhumanist book Citizen Cyborg, bioethicist James Hughes criticized the premise and influence of the film as fear-mongering, arguing:

1. Astronaut-training programs are entirely justified in attempting to screen out people with heart bug for prophylactic reasons;
2. In the U.s., people are already screened by insurance companies on the footing of their propensities to disease, for actuarial purposes;
3. Rather than banning genetic testing or genetic enhancement, club should develop genetic data privacy laws such every bit the U.S. Genetic Data Nondiscrimination Act signed into police on May 21, 2008 that permit justified forms of genetic testing and data assemblage, but forbid those that are judged to result in genetic discrimination. Citizens should then be able to brand a complaint to the advisable authority if they believe they take been discriminated against considering of their genotype.^[36]

Run into also [edit]

• List of films featuring surveillance
• Gattaca argument
• Transhumanism § Genetic dissever
• Germinal pick technology

References [edit]

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Further reading [edit]

• Frauley, Jon (2010). "Biopolitics and the Governance of Genetic Capital in GATTACA". Criminology, Deviance and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 195–216. doi:10.1057/9780230115361_7. ISBN978-0230615168.
• Interview with Dr. Paul Durham, Manager of Cell Biological science and the Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences at Missouri State University, about Gattaca.

External links [edit]

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• Official website
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• Gattaca at Rotten Tomatoes
• Gattaca at Metacritic
• Gattaca Screenplay
• Genetic Determinism in Gattaca

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