It is said that "Cassandra Bridge" is the "originator" of "infectious disease movies". But when I watched this movie when I was a child, I didn't realize the huge impact of "contagion". In my impression, this movie was completely "speed of life and death", and all my attention was focused on the train Maybe at the point of falling off the bridge, I don't have much impression of the cause of "infectious disease" at all. Looking back at this film now, I think that this film is not so much the "originator" of infectious disease movies, but rather the "originator" of disaster action movies.
Obviously, in the film "Cassandra Bridge", the cause of infectious diseases is only a fuse, which is the source of a series of disasters, deaths and threats that follow. In the film, the emergence, onset and cure of infectious diseases are not discussed with scientific basis. However, it is understandable that the spread of infectious diseases in people is also caused by human beings in the first place. Without humans experimenting in the laboratory themselves, there would be no possibility of transmission in humans. What's more, when this kind of infectious disease spreads through air and contact between people, the practice of "sacrifice the small self to fulfill the big self" adopted by human beings in order to control the reproduction of the disease is timeless, and it will be placed in 2020. Now, hey, it's still the same.
The reason why I think this film should be an epoch-making disaster action film is that, aside from the character setting and the strong political satire of the plot arrangement, even if I look back on it now in 2020, the train falling over the bridge A scene is really too classic. Not to mention, in the 1970s, there were helicopters chasing people on a moving train, and action actors rock climbing a fast-moving train. These classic action shots laid the foundation for shooting a series of action disaster films in the later period. keynote. The 007 series is no stranger to climbing trains. This film is completely a historical precedent.
So it's not surprising why people think of "Cassandra Bridge" first and not think of infectious diseases (because infectious diseases are the fuse, just an introduction), but because of infectious diseases, they think of "Cassandra Bridge" ". Because of the special situation of infectious diseases, everyone turned over all the related videos and revisited them. This film is regarded as a classic by later generations because of its epoch-making and far-reaching influence, so if it has anything to do with infectious diseases, it will be mentioned immediately, because this film is too famous.
ps: The dubbing of older generation artists deserves respect.
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