Advances in DNA technology has reduced the capacity to develop future thrillers like this one where deaths are faked and
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Altho73 — 18 years ago(July 21, 2007 01:34 PM)
Advances in DNA technology has reduced the capacity to develop future thrillers like this one where deaths are faked and replaced by bodies. You could not have set this movie in 2007 because DNA testing of the bodies found would have identified the replacement body in the hotel room as NOT being that of Arthur Hamilton. To make it realistic they would have had to fake Arthur's (and all the other) deaths by complete disappearance of the bodies which spoils the story.
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dukeofauge — 18 years ago(August 01, 2007 08:56 AM)
You can still make these movies, just set them in days of old.
Like you cant really have a good heist film today that isnt 99% fancy technology and not just good old robbing and stealing, but set the film in 50s and bingo. -
WarpedRecord — 18 years ago(August 11, 2007 05:30 PM)
Bingo is right! It's refreshing to see a film where everyone isn't surfing the Internet or talking on cell phones. Technology is moving so fast, even the "Bourne Identity/Ultimatum" films are going to look antiquated in a few years. But I think there will always be an interest in quality movies set in the past.
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Jordan_Haelend — 16 years ago(November 25, 2009 05:38 PM)
If they decided to make a remake, the only way to do it would be to go even MORE High-tech (if you wanted it to seem "realistic.") I think that you'd need to use nothing less than brain transplantation. Of course it would require both blood and tissue type testing, an ultra-secret form of technology, and you'd have to dispose of the "donor's" brain, it wouldn't work to just swap them.
"An Archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows."
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cherns-2 — 11 years ago(February 28, 2015 10:21 PM)
Identifying someone through DNA and dental records presupposes that there's some base to which the DNA or dental records can be compared.
In
Charley Varrick (1973)
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Charlie knows that a rash colleague is slated for killing, breaks into the office of the dentist they share, and substitutes his records for the colleague's, leading the killers to think that they've killed him, not the colleague. Something like that, anyway.
In
Spartan (2004)
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the hero is puzzled by a news story in which DNA evidence is said to show something that he knows to be untrue. It's explained to him that "they" don't actually have to do a DNA test, just claim to have done it and announce the results they want.
Clearly, The Company (I forget its name) has the resources to do all that and more. -
rainegrewal — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 11:36 AM)
Wouldn't DNA and/or dental records need to be checked if there was a suspicion of a crime only? Or maybe I'm getting confused with Self/Less where the
SPOILER!!
.younger bodies were always made to die in a "natural" death.