Movie Where Man Uploads Brain Into Computer

2014 film directed by Wally Pfister

Transcendence
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Directed by	Wally Pfister
Written by	Jack Paglen
Produced by	Andrew A. Kosove Broderick Johnson Kate Cohen Marisa Polvino Annie Marter David Valdes Aaron Ryder
Starring	Johnny Depp Morgan Freeman Rebecca Hall Kate Mara Cillian Murphy Cole Hauser Paul Bettany
Cinematography	Jess Hall
Edited by	David Rosenbloom
Music by	Mychael Danna
Production companies	Alcon Entertainment DMG Entertainment Straight Upward Films
Distributed past	Warner Bros. Pictures (United States & Canada) Meridian Entertainment (International)
Release dates	Apr 10, 2014 (2014-04-10) (New York Metropolis) Apr 18, 2014 (2014-04-eighteen) (United States)
Running time	119 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$100–150 one thousand thousand[2] [iii]
Box office	$103 million[2]

Transcendence is a 2014 American science fiction thriller picture show directed by Wally Pfister (in his directorial debut) and written by Jack Paglen. The pic stars Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy and Cole Hauser, and follows a group of scientists who race to finish an artificial intelligence projection while existence targeted past a radical anti-technology organization.

Paglen's screenplay was listed on the 2012 edition of The Blackness List, a list of pop unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.^[iv] Transcendence was a box office flop, grossing just $103 million against a upkeep of as much every bit $150 million. The film received mainly negative reviews; it was criticized for its plot structure, characters and dialogue but praised for its cinematography, acting, and score.

Plot [edit]

Dr. Will Pulley is a scientist who researches the nature of sapience, including artificial intelligence. He and his team piece of work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a calculator will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife, Evelyn, is also a scientist and helps him with his piece of work.

Following one of Will's presentations, an anti-technology terrorist grouping called "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with a polonium-laced bullet and carries out a series of synchronized attacks on A.I. laboratories beyond the country. Will is given no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn comes upwards with a plan to upload Volition'southward consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His all-time friend and fellow researcher, Max Waters, questions the wisdom of this choice, reasoning that the "uploaded" Will would only be an faux of the real person. Volition's consciousness survives his body's death in this technological form and requests to be connected to the Internet to grow in capability and noesis. Max refuses to be whatsoever part of the experiment. Evelyn demands that Max leave and connects the computer intelligence to the Internet via satellite.

R.I.F.T.'s leader Bree kidnaps Max and eventually persuades him to join the group. The government is too suspicious of what Will's uploaded consciousness will practise and plans to use the terrorists to take the arraign for the regime'due south actions to finish him.

In his virtual form and with Evelyn's assistance, Will uses his newfound vast capabilities to build a technological utopia in a remote desert boondocks called Brightwood, where he spearheads the development of ground-breaking technologies in medicine, energy, biological science and nanotechnology. However, Evelyn grows fearful of Will'southward motives when he displays the ability to remotely connect to and control people's minds after they have been subjected to his nanoparticles.

FBI agent Donald Buchanan, with the help of government scientist Joseph Tagger, plans to finish the sentient entity from spreading. Equally Will has already spread his influence to all the networked reckoner technology in the world, Max and R.I.F.T. develop a estimator virus with the purpose of deleting Will'due south source code, destroying him. Evelyn plans to upload the virus past infecting herself and and so having Will upload her consciousness. A side effect of the virus would be the devastation of technological culture. This would also disable the nano-particles, which have spread in the h2o, through the wind and have already started to eradicate pollution, illness, and human mortality.

When Evelyn goes back to the enquiry center, she is stunned to encounter Volition in a newly created organic trunk identical to his old i. Will welcomes her but is instantly enlightened that she is carrying the virus and intends to destroy him. The FBI and the members of R.I.F.T. attack the base of operations with artillery, destroying much of its ability supply and fatally wounding Evelyn. When Bree threatens to kill Max unless Will uploads the virus, Volition explains that he has simply plenty power either to heal Evelyn's concrete body or upload the virus. Evelyn tells Will that Max should non dice because of what they've washed, and then Volition uploads the virus to relieve Max. Equally Will dies, he explains to Evelyn that he did what he did for her, every bit she had pursued scientific discipline to repair the harm humans had done to the ecosystems. In their final moment, he tells Evelyn to retrieve nearly their garden. The virus kills both Will and Evelyn, and a global engineering collapse and blackout ensues.

Five years subsequently, in Volition and Evelyn's garden at their old dwelling house in Berkeley, Max notices that their sunflowers are the only blooming plants. Upon closer exam, he notices that a drop of water falling from a sunflower petal instantly cleanses a puddle of oil — and realizes that the Faraday cage around the garden has protected a sample of Will'southward sentient nano-particles.

The picture show ends with a voiceover past Max: "He created this garden for the same reason he did everything: So they could be together."

Bandage [edit]

• Johnny Depp equally Volition Caster, a scientist researching artificial intelligence.
• Rebecca Hall as Evelyn Caster, Will's wife and a swain scientist.
• Paul Bettany equally Max Waters, Will's best friend.
• Cillian Spud as Agent Buchanan, an FBI agent.
• Kate Mara as Bree, the leader of the Revolutionary Independence From Technology (R.I.F.T.) terrorist organization.
• Cole Hauser equally Colonel Stevens, a military officer.
• Morgan Freeman equally Joseph Tagger, Volition and Evelyn's mentor.
• Clifton Collins Jr. as Martin
• Cory Hardrict every bit Joel Edmund, a R.I.F.T. terrorist.
• Josh Stewart as Paul, a blind homo who is healed by Will's nanomachines.
• Falk Hentschel as Bob, a R.I.F.T. terrorist.

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

Transcendence is Wally Pfister's directorial debut. Jack Paglen wrote the initial screenplay for Pfister to direct,^{[nb i]} and producer Annie Marter pitched the pic to Straight Upwards Films.^[six] The pitch was sold to Direct Up. Past March 2012, Alcon Entertainment acquired the projection.^[seven] Alcon financed and produced the film; producers from Straight Up and Alcon joined together for the film. In the following June, manager Christopher Nolan, for whom Pfister has worked as cinematographer, and Nolan's producing partner Emma Thomas joined the flick as executive producers.^[6]

Financing [edit]

The Chinese company DMG Amusement entered a partnership with Alcon Entertainment to finance and produce the film. While DMG contributed Chinese elements to Looper and Fe Man 3, it did not exercise so for Transcendence.^[8]

Casting [edit]

Past October 2012, actor Johnny Depp entered negotiations to star in Transcendence.^[9] The Hollywood Reporter said Depp would have "a mammoth payday" with a salary of $xx million versus 15 percent of the film'southward gross. Pfister met with Noomi Rapace for the film'south female lead function and also met with James McAvoy and Tobey Maguire for the other male lead function. The director offered a supporting part to Christoph Waltz.^[ten] In March 2013, Rebecca Hall was cast as the female pb.^[xi] By the following April, actors Paul Bettany, Kate Mara and Morgan Freeman joined the main cast.^[12]

Filming [edit]

Continuing his advocacy for the use of film stock over digital cinematography, Pfister chose to shoot the movie in the anamorphic format on 35mm moving picture.^[13] Filming officially began in June 2013,^[xiv] and took place over a menstruum of 62 days.^[15] The bulk of the movie was filmed in a diverseness of locations throughout Albuquerque, New Mexico. The fictional town of Brightwood was created in downtown Belen, New Mexico. The film went through a traditional photochemical end instead of a digital intermediate.^[sixteen] In add-on to film, a digital principal was completed in 4K resolution, and the picture was additionally released in IMAX film format. Transcendence was also scheduled for a 3D release in Mainland china.^[17]

Music [edit]

The musical score for the film composed by Mychael Danna was released on April 15, through WaterTower Music. A meaty disc format of the score was released through Amazon.com. The song "Genesis" from the solo album "Quah" by Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is prominently featured in the picture show.

Release [edit]

Theatrical [edit]

Transcendence was released in theaters on April 18, 2014. It was originally scheduled for April 25, 2014.^[18]

Warner Bros. distributed the film in the United States and Canada. Summit Entertainment (through Lionsgate) distributed it in other territories.^[xix] DMG Entertainment, who collaborated with Alcon Entertainment to finance and develop Transcendence, distributed the motion-picture show in China.^[8] The Chinese version includes a 3D and IMAX 3D release, funded by DMG, which is washed in post-production.^[20]

Home media [edit]

Transcendence was released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 22, 2014.^[21]

Reception [edit]

Box role [edit]

Transcendence grossed $23 million in North America and $80 million in other territories for a worldwide full of $103 1000000.^[2] The flick was a box part flop, with Deadline Hollywood estimating the losses for the studio could achieve equally much as $100 million, though a more realistic figure was around $35 meg.^[22]

In the film's opening weekend, the pic grossed $4.8 one thousand thousand on Friday, $3.8 1000000 on Sat and $2.3 million on Sunday in North America, for a weekend gross of $10.ix 1000000, playing in 3,455 theaters (an average of $3,151) and ranking #4.^{[23] [24]}

The biggest other markets were Mainland china, French republic and Republic of korea, where the film grossed $20.2 million, $half-dozen.45 1000000 and $five.3 meg respectively.^[25]

Critical response [edit]

Publications such equally The Guardian, Forbes and International Concern Times considered the film to exist largely a critical failure,^{[26] [27] [28]} with The Guardian stating that the reviews were "near universally damning" and referring to the moving-picture show as "ane of 2014's bigger critical turkeys".^[26] Film critic Mark Kermode said that the film got a "critical kicking" in the Uk, much as it did in the The states.^[29] However, a number of sources considered the film to take received a mixed rather than a primarily negative reception.^{[30] [31] [32] [33]}

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the picture show holds an blessing rating of 19% based on 226 reviews, with an average rating of iv.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "In his directorial debut, ace cinematographer Wally Pfister remains a distinctive visual stylist, but Transcendence 'southward idea-provoking themes exceed the pic'south narrative grasp."^[34] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted boilerplate score of 42 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[35] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the flick an boilerplate grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.^[24]

Criticism was aimed largely at the film's logic and storytelling.^{[36] [37]} Michael Atkinson of Sight & Sound identified "vast plot holes and superhuman leaps of logic", writing that "[f]or all its gloss, hipster pretensions, plot craters and sometimes risible attempts at activeness, Transcendence traffics in large, troublesome ideas about Right At present and What'southward Ahead, even if the film itself is far too timid and compromised to do those hairy questions justice".^[38] William Thomas of Empire believed that the cast and director had been "wasted on a B-Movie script with pretensions of prescience", dismissing the picture equally a "banal sci-fi slog"; he awarded it a 2 out of five star "poor" rating.^[39] David Denby of The New Yorker considered the moving picture to exist "rhythmless and shapeless" with "some very cheesy and even non-expert fighting".^[twoscore] Nigel Floyd of Film4 ended that it was "[a]n ambitious, old fashioned, ideas-driven science fiction pic that is never equally mind-expanding as its futuristic images and topical, dystopian ideas seem to promise".^[41] Bogus intelligence expert Barney Pell criticized the moving picture'due south depiction of 3D printing, saying that the self-organizing smart particles in the film "could quite peradventure violate laws of physics."^[42]

Writing for Spanish moving-picture show site eCartelera, Jesús Agudo stated that the motion-picture show suffered from existence fabricated to look like a Christopher Nolan pic. "But where the director of Inception knows how to do it with intelligence and cunning, Pfister gets tangled up in his ain mysteries, leading us to expressionless ends in the plot, creating frustration and not just curiosity." He also criticized Johnny Depp'south functioning: "even when he'due south not playing an AI it seems like it's a calculator talking. If many accept complained of the player's excessive expressiveness, with characters in the style of Jack Sparrow, in Transcendence he offers the exact contrary, which isn't adept either."^[43]

Opposite to the many less than flattering reviews that the pic received, Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sunday-Times lauded the film and awarded information technology four stars, calling information technology a "bold, beautiful flight of futuristic speculation" and "a stunning piece of piece of work".^[44] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times was too positive towards the film, praising the quality of the cast and intelligence of the script.^[45] Some sources like The Contained thought that the negative reviews reported for the film were harsh and that the flick was "fashionable and entertaining", treading a "fairly well-judged path betwixt paranoia and technological utopianism".^[46] AI researcher Stuart Russell claims that despite item technical aspects of the movie existence "a not-starter", the basic premise of superhuman AI is quite possible, and that "AI researchers must, like nuclear physicists and genetic engineers before them, take seriously the possibility that their enquiry might actually succeed and do their utmost to ensure that their piece of work benefits rather than endangers their own species."^[47]

Accolades [edit]

Award	Category	Subject	Issue	Notes
Golden Trailer Awards	Well-nigh Original Trailer	Buddha Jones, Warner Bros.	Nominated	For the outset theatrical trailer entitled "It'southward Me"
	All-time Move/Title Graphics		Nominated
			Won	For the second theatrical trailer entitled "Singularity"
	Almost Innovative Advertising for a Characteristic Film		Nominated	"Spraypaint"

See also [edit]

• Transhumanism in fiction
• Heed uploading in fiction
• Amazing Stories, S02E12 "The Eternal Mind"

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Jack Paglen'south screenplay was featured in the 2012 survey of Hollywood'due south The Black Listing, a list of near-liked unproduced screenplays.^[v]

References [edit]

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46. ^ "Transcendence, movie review: Johnny Depp'due south sci-fi transcends bad reviews". The Independent. April 26, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
47. ^ "Transcendence: An AI Researcher Enjoys Watching His Own Execution". Huffington Postal service . Retrieved October ii, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Transcendence at IMDb
• Transcendence at Box Part Mojo
• Transcendence at Rotten Tomatoes
• Transcendence at Metacritic

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