![]() Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley themselves were inspired choices to play these roles. He also can’t dress himself worth a damn, so tell me why Clive and Elsa look like models for some GQ gen-x feature on punk rock science. My brother is a lot smarter than I am and is currently pursuing a doctorate in some very obscure field of physics. It’s alright in and of itself, but there are little things throughout the feature that remind me so much of where science fiction is now instead of where it could and should be. Splice, to me at least, represents a lot of different things. Not that I mention that cos it’s important or anything. The mutant Dren was spliced with recently went from female to male without anyone noticing. ![]() Dren will soon be a teenager, and with adolescence comes some confusing hormonal changes. The name sticks, then you just can’t take it back. I too have accidentally given something an awful name. She looks down, looks back at him and tells him to call her Dren (Delphine Chanéac). Clive angrily asks Elsa what to call the creature after Elsa chastises him for calling it “the subject”. When Elsa tries to teach it her name with Scrabble tiles–scientists and Scrabble, rite?–splicette spells out “nerd” and points at her. The weird amphibious chicken creature shows signs of cognition and association. The creature they’ve created is growing far too quickly and they predict it will die an early death barely out of the artificial womb. Naturally, the next stage in their relationship is splicing human DNA into the mutants they’ve already made. Of course, they’re also trying to have a baby, but Elsa isn’t quite sure yet. They are working on genetic splicing techniques, creating mutant creatures that might contain the cures for all sorts of genetic illnesses, like cancer or Parkinson’s. Always told the story takes place in Chicago or New York–they never use the believable lie of Minnesota. One of these days, someone will shoot in southern Ontario and not mash all the cities up into a fine paste of anonymity. Do you want to know where a plot that starts at genetic splicing can go? Cos it can go a lot of places, almost none of them rosy.Ĭlive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are a couple of Torontonian scientists–or at least, the same kind of vague Torontonian that has a barn out in the country during a frosted winter and exits their research facility via Jackson Square in downtown Hamilton. I definitely believed him, but even I couldn’t fathom how terribly awkward this movie can get. He warned me that it was hysterically uncomfortable, and I believed him. ![]() My buddy Dan saw this movie in theaters when it came out before summer last year. While I’m not sure how to review a movie like King’s Speech because it’s entertaining and good and little else, I’m not sure how to review Splice because it’s so thoroughly uncomfortable. I’m never quite sure how to review a movie like Splice. All in all, 18 months was dedicated to VFX and creature design work for a stunning final product.Someone tell me why I'm seeing this twice? During what is arguably Dren's biggest transformation in Splice, when she develops wings and changes her sex from female to male, it took some creative maneuvering to figure out the " natural ribbing" in the movement that caused the retraction and slow reveal. Everything from her movements to her eyes became integrated in the different elements of the creature design, though there were still a few stumbling blocks along the way. Once Chanéac was cast in the role, she became a muse for Munroe and his team, allowing for the perfect Dren. This also proves that the growing specimen is aware of her surroundings, able to pick up subtle clues and relate them to something as simple as letter blocks.Īpparently, the primary reason for the production taking so long was finding the right actor for the role. Dren is "nerd" spelled backwards, and "nerd" directly translates to the program that Elsa and Clive work for, Nucleic Exchange Research and Development, or N.E.R.D. In one scene, a young, childlike Dren is playing with blocks and spells out her own name, prompting surprise and delight from Elsa, as this is a clear sign of her intelligence. Since it was so important to Natali to make Dren a sympathetic creature-her character development and the plot rested heavily on this translating well to audiences-the younger forms of the creature were even endearing.
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