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This reminds of the scene from Wild, Wild West where they use a special lens to project what it was that a dead scientist saw right when he died.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
This reminds of the scene from Wild, Wild West where they use a special lens to project what it was that a dead scientist saw right when he died.
- knolan 4y agoAlso in one of the Robocop movies iirc.
- selimthegrim 4y agoDeleted by request.
- TheRealPomax 4y agowhy mention this, the need to post a comment cannot possibly be stronger than the decency to not spoil anything in a comment system that doesn't even have spoiler tags. Just delete that comment =)
- hh3k0 4y agoSpoiling a movie from 1999?
- selimthegrim 4y agoNo, game from 20 years later.
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- Tao3300 4y agoAwful film. For some reason that's the only part I remember!
- drooopy 4y agoLiterally the only good thing about this movie existing was that it made the punchline at the end of Kevin Smith's Superman/Tim Burton story so much funnier.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoThe spider mecha was very cool. That's all I remember, but what more does a movie need?
- mgdlbp 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography
- rakejake 4y agoGreg Egan's distress has something similar although in that situation it's not just the retinas. All the organs are revived to make the person who died "alive" for a short while to help the police identify the culprit
- _0ffh 4y agoI think in one of the Lord Darcy crime mysteries they used a magic spell to reveal the last thing a murder victim saw.
- jaclaz 4y agoYep, that was one of the latest uses, there was a classic movie by Dario Argento (1971): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Flies_on_Grey_Velvet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Flies_on_Grey_Velvet that used the same theory/approach in the plot, it is called optography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography and its first use (in a movie) was 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography#Optography_in_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography#Optography_in_ficti...
- bookofjoe 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_(film)