Michael Douglas reflects on the ahead-of-its-time virtual reality scene in ‘Disclosure’

“You are the first person who reminded me, so bravo to you,” said Michael Douglas Weekly entertainment During a recent interview, proving that it does not spend much time reading movies blogs or electronic babillards. While most of the conversation concerned the 50th anniversary of We flew over the cuckoo nestWe knew that we would be negligent if we did not mention the very darling and cheesy virtual reality sequence in the 1994 thriller Disclosure.

“I did not think about it,” said Douglas when we asked if he had taken a moment to think about his foreknowledge. The film preceded Oculus Rift and Meta Quest and Google Glass and Apple Vision Pro and all the other materials used to shock your central nervous system, thinking that you fall from the top of a skyscraper.

DisclosureIf you remember, was an erotic thriller articulated on a case of sexual harassment with a touch: it was the average age guy played by Michael Douglas who was the victim of Demi Moore. The poster has promised a prohibited lust and the slogan, “sex is power”, suggested annoyed adult themes. But the film itself – directed by Barry Levinson with an adaptation of the script by Paul Attanasio of the novel by Michael Crichton – was more a corporate thriller. And the company at the center of all this was a geek team based in Seattle called Digicom.

The film was an important box-office success, which means that many people bought tickets looking for “the scene” between Douglas and Moore. (It was, after all, two years after Saincy, led by Douglas Basic instinct.) But science fiction dorks in the public have been treated another Perhaps even more memorable scene.

We will do our best to succinctly summarizing DisclosureFarfuly trip in cyberspace, but you will be forgiven if you think it seems invented.

Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an intermediate level director in Digicom. (He directs the CD-ROM division.) He is married and excited for an upcoming business merger. However, he discovers that his ex-girlfriend, Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), obtains the promotion he wanted. She calls Tom to the office to celebrate and begins to put movements. He stops it, only to discover later that Meredith accused him sexual harassment. This leads to a counter-communion, to certain contempt for the company and to a touch: TOM learns that there is more than just a jealousy. A conspiracy is at stake! (Donald Sutherland and the Malaysian government are somehow involved.)

To erase his name and discover what is really going on, Tom must enter into To the mainframe of Digicom, then he puts the VR headset and we are going.

Tom then searches for incriminating files which are naturally encrypted. As such, he maneuver through the corridors, almost falling into bottomless pits of cyberspace. (In a way, it’s a bit like Tron.)

Meanwhile, Meredith pirate another computer, deleting files, and she presents herself for a confrontation of the cyberspace appearing as a green grid with female curves and an immobile avatar face. It doesn’t look good, even for 1994. It certainly doesn’t look threatening. It is difficult to know exactly what Levinson, one of the great directors of the time, thought here.

The scene ends with many digital images flying on the screen and a positive synthesizer music of composer Ennio Morricone.

Clearly Disclosure was a film that did things and some things that are wrong. Yes, the VR would become more viable in a few decades, but not really for discovering business embezzlement. In addition, the creeping question of sexual harassment in the workplace would over time would be more seriously, but the wacky twist of “in fact, it is the women Do it! “Would not be exactly common.

Think about DisclosureHowever, Douglas remains proud of the work.

“I’m a kind of guy in progress,” he said. “Many films I made [kept] with current events. He was a bit mischievous, with the bumper woman abusive. But images like We flew over the cuckoo nest,, China syndromeAnd To fall – It was all [about] problems. Now that you mention the [virtual reality] Aspect, you are absolutely right. “”

Of course, Disclosure It was not the first film to present a virtual reality sequence. In addition to TronSome first examples include The man of the mower,, Brainstary,, World on a thread,, Total reminder (maybe ???), and anything on Star Trek involving the Holodeck. Regarding Douglas in search of a helmet, it was recovered by one year from our old friend to Cabot Cove, in Maine.

Yes, Jessica Fletcher Beat Disclosure in cyberspace with the memorable Murder, she wrote Episode “A Virtual Murder”, which was broadcast on October 31, 1993.

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You can consult the original trailer for Disclosure below.