Talk:Fantastic Voyage

Unlimited or limited?

should that word unlimited actually be 'limited' ? i havent seen the film but from the context of the article that seems like a mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.245.29.229 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 31 January 2005

The process only worked for a limited time until Benes discovered how to make it unlimited - they want to save him so they can use his knowledge to shrink people and machinery without the 60-minute time limit. Lee M 22:43, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've now rewritten and expanded the relevant paragraphs so that the plot is (hopefully) clearer. Lee M 22:55, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Coolio

There should be a link to a disambiguation page. "Fantastic Voyage" can also refer to a song by the rap artist Coolio.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.65.181.128 (talk • contribs) 05:46, 2 August 2006

Quote about Salvador Dali painting from Christie's website

Since it's possible that Christie's will not maintain their web page for Dali's Le voyage fantastique, here's an excerpt from the page about the painting which is cited in the article:

Le voyage fantastic is an hallucinatory portrait made at the height of Dalí's so-called 'pop' period in New York in 1965. The painting was made as part of the promotion of the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage starring Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch. Early in 1965 Dalí had been asked by Twentieth Century Fox to be in charge of the artistic part of this groundbreaking science fiction film. Dalí's first response to this challenge was to paint this work which incorporates many of the elements of the film with several of his most recent painterly techniques.

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In Fantastic Voyage [the painting], these dots are rendered as a flat field in an op-art way that combines to form a partially recognisable image of Raquel Welch. This image is shown dissolving into particles in a way that echoes the plot of the film in which a crew of scientists were reduced to molecular scale and injected into the body of a man in order to save his life.

Dalí's painting of the subject seems to describe this transformation. Split into two halves with one, the facial image, shown dissolving into the figure of the patient at the left, the painting also shows the emergence of the space-suit-clad figures forming from the molecules and their injection into the man's skull. This, Dalí has also mysteriously adorned with a sequence of numbers. In addition, the patient also models another particularly Dalinean feature, an excessively elaborate and bushy moustache.

69.3.70.59 04:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

The link is indeed broken now. Oddly, when searching the web for a pictures of the painting, the images I get back in no way resemble the description above. This page http://www.dalinet.com/artnews/index.cfm?v=10077 , for instance, confirms that it was painted to promote the film, but in the painting shown I see a telephone receiver, a piano, a cloud, possibly a dragonfly and some kind of vegetable, but nothing that resembles Rachel Welch, op-art dots, space-suit-clad figures or a moustache. "Stochastic Voyage" might be a better title. 81.131.68.143 (talk) 13:12, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Minor factual errors in text of article

Quote: The "whirlpool" scene . . . was made using a large punch bowl, strawberry-flavored milk, and three cups of Cheerios cereal.

The "punch bowl" was, in fact, an 8-foot-diameter champagne glass originally made for the 1964 Shirley MacLaine vehicle "What A Way To Go!"

Quote: Much of the interior scenes of the secret complex were filmed at a football stadium at night. Brief glimpses of the outside playing field area can be seen . . .

The aforementioned scenes were actually filmed in the outer concourse of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, a multipurpose indoor arena that hosts basketball, hockey, and entertainment events such as circuses and ice shows.

Source: L.B. Abbott, Special Effects: Wire, Tape and Rubber Band Style. Sorry, can't cite page numbers as I no longer own a copy of the book, but it's in there!

Plot Synopsis or Summary

Is/was there a plot synopsis or summary for this article? It's odd considering a lot of film articles have only a plot summary and not much info instead of the reverse. InsaneZeroG (talk) 08:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

It was removed by a vandal last month. I've added it back. --Itub (talk) 10:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Too Many Cite Requests

This article has too many cite requests for facts that have been common knowledge about the movie since its release. Would someone who is a *real* admin and not a sockpuppet-validated one please remove them? If people aren't going to take the time to look up their own cite requests, then they shouldn't make them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.188.250.148 (talk) 02:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Soviet Union/CIA?

Too much is assumed here. In the movie, and, the book, nowhere is the USSR mentioned--just the: "other side". Jan Benes' name sounds Czech; so it was assumed by the writer of this synopsis. And, Grant was a secret agent, true, but the "CIA" was never mentioned per se. Science and the sets/special effects, not politics, is in the forefront of this movie, like The Andromeda Strain. I ask these references be stricken as they are inaccurate/unnecessary/dead weight.68.231.189.108 (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Special Effects?

Although it is obvious the cells are spray paint on cheese cloth, and the heart valves are plastic bags animated by ropes; the special effects were very convincing for 1966. I have been a fan this movie and of anatomy since.68.231.189.108 (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Let's appreciate how well done it was for the time. Star Trek had fantastic special effects for the 'sixties, also--far better than any other at it's time. "Sources"-??--just use your Eyes!70.176.118.196 (talk) 04:44, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

What are you suggesting exactly? Are you just commenting that you like this movie? If so, that's great, but let's focus discussion on the article itself. If you'd like to create a section dealing with groundbreaking special effects for the time, then, if you can provide sources, by all means, create a new sourced section.--RossF18 (talk) 18:10, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Remake?

• http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100401/ten-uk-greengrass-5fdf947.html announces a planned remake of Fantastic Voyage; but, as this news was released on April Fools Day, can we trust it? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Under "In Popular Culture":

QUOTE: "The popular 1980 film Airplane! contains a long running gag about quitting various harmful vices which is a subtle homage to Fantastic Voyage (specifically, the conversational banter in which the colonel and the general trade quips, and particularly the scene where the colonel teases the general about eliminating sugar in his coffee)."

In fact, the running gag in Airplane! in which Lloyd Bridges' character repeatedly says, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit (smoking/drinking/amphetamines/sniffing glue)" has no connection with Fantastic Voyage. It's a direct homage to the line ""Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" spoken by Sterling Hayden in the 1957 air-disaster movie Zero Hour!, which Airplane! parodied (in fact, it was based on the same script). Scotpens (talk) 22:26, 14 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotpens (talk • contribs) 22:24, 14 April 2010 (UTC) \

Wireless?

Were Bixby and Klement British? They mention "wireless" instead of radio -- neither will work under water. Since it obviously occurs in the US (Washington, DC, as also borne out by the book, ) I find it odd to refer radio this way, especially by the character Grant, who knew Morse Code and radio operation from his days in the war. 70.176.118.196 (talk) 04:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Though this film is loaded with scientific errors -- indeed, it's one huge scientific error -- this isn't one of them. Radio waves can penetrate conductive materials, including water. The depth of penetration varies inversely with the wavelength and the conductivity of the material. I can think of two practical examples: microwave ovens, and R/C submarines. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 20:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Video Game

There's a computer game based on the movie, developed by Centaur Software in 1991 and published for the Commodore Amiga. [1] 67.142.172.25 (talk) 09:42, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

In Pop Culture

This has been parodied time and again. It seems strange to just have 2 examples. This probably ranks up there with A Christmas Carol as most parodied theme in a cartoon. I'm not sure it's worth listing every example, maybe just a note that it is an extremely common theme. 2 more examples offhand: Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XV and Spongebob's Squidtastic Voyage. BeastmasterGeneral 13:37, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

At first I added the Fairly OddParents episode to the list. And considering the other two examples above, I looked for some more examples and found a few, so I went ahead and made a sub-section suggesting that "entering the human body" is a visual concept greatly influential in animated TV, and then listed the shows, adding up to 9, and of which I assume there could be more down the line. Also, I added the movies Innerspace and Osmosis Jones. 190.190.202.201 (talk) 09:11, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Given that the section was tagged for original research about a year ago, I've removed any examples that weren't listed at the sources currently provided within that section. Any additional examples should have sources establishing that this film was an inspiration for them. DonIago (talk) 16:25, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Osmosis Jones and Innerspace ARE provided in the link by the way. I'll provide some more, but some of them are harder, the ones from lesser known episodes. In this research I found (from an unreliable source though [2]) that there are up to 9 Nicktoons who run this theme including Ren & Stimpy, Real Monsters, Angry Beavers, CatDog, Invader Zim and Jimmy Neutron. Also aren't the titles "Squidtastic Voyage" and "Drastic Voyage" clear enough?190.190.202.201 (talk) 23:31, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

They're clear enough for a secondary source. However, Wikipedia is a tertiary source which works by citing and summarising reliable secondary sources. DonQuixote (talk) 23:54, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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Earlier story

In Adventure Comics (DC) #200 (May 1954), in a story called "Aquaman, Microbe Hunter", Aquaman who can breathe under water, is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an important atomic scientist who is infected with "Virus X". He manages to kill the virus and get out of the body and is grown back to normal size again.(5.8.190.86 (talk) 12:29, 3 September 2017 (UTC))