ALTERED STATES
Film 1980. Written by Sidney Aaron. Directed by Ken Russell. Starring William Hurt, Blair Brown and Bob Balaban.
Source Features: BBB (3) TIMELINE (1) MAP (1) OTHER (14) THEMES (1)

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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1First SecurityBBBServicesSecurity Services

First Security
Security company at the building where Eddie transforms into an earlier ape like creature.

2New York HospitalBBBHealthcareHospitals

New York Hospital
Hospital where Eddie and Arthur find their first sensory deprivation tank.

3Safari ShopBBBRetailGift Shops

Safari Shop
Gift shop at the zoo where Eddie kills and eats a sheep after transforming into an earlier ape like creature.

FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
4January 7, 1976 Dates20th Century: 70sEvents

January 7, 1976
Wednesday. Dr. Eddie Jessup uses the horizontal float tank for the first time. Arthur records the date.



MAKE BELIEVE MAP
3Hinchi IndiansMapUrban AreasNative Tribes

Hinchi Indians
Isolated tribe in central Mexico who still practice the ancient Toltec rituals, sacred mushroom ceremonies. Eddie goes to Mexico and participates in a mushroom ceremony.

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4Arthur RosenbergOtherQuotesQuotes

Arthur Rosenberg
Arthur Rosenberg: The way I feel, I don't expect to go to sleep for a year. I'm on fucking fire!

5Eddie JessupOtherQuotesQuotes

Eddie Jessup
Eddie Jessup: The purpose of our suffering is only more suffering.

6Eddie JessupOtherQuotesQuotes

Eddie Jessup
Eddie Jessup: You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was *in* that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real. I don't want to frighten you, Emily, but what I'm trying to tell you is that moment of terror is a real and living horror, living and growing within me now, and the only thing that keeps it from devouring me is you.

7Eddie Jessup OtherQuotesQuotes

Eddie Jessup
Eddie Jessup: When I was 9 years old I used to see visions. visions of saints and angels, even Christ himself. Of course I don't do that anymore, not since I was 16.

8Eddie Jessup & Emily JessupOtherQuotesQuotes

Eddie Jessup & Emily Jessup
Eddie Jessup: What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no Buddhist God per se. It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth.
Emily Jessup: What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.
Eddie Jessup: Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human energy. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds.

9Eddie Jessup & Mason ParrishOtherQuotesQuotes

Eddie Jessup & Mason Parrish
Eddie Jessup: Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be, and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason Parrish: You're a whacko!
Eddie Jessup: What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.

10Eddie Jessup's father's last word.OtherTriviaQuestions

Eddie Jessup's father's last word.
Terrific
Terrible
Terror


11Emily JessupOtherQuotesQuotes

Emily Jessup
Emily Jessup: Arthur was right. You are a fascinating bastard.

12Emily Jessup & Eddie Jessup OtherQuotesQuotes

Emily Jessup & Eddie Jessup
Emily Jessup: What are you thinking about?
Eddie Jessup: God. Jesus, crucifixions.

13First FlowerOtherLiving ThingsFlowers

First Flower
One of the ingredients in the mixture ingested during the indigenous tribal ceremony.

14This movie was the big screen debut of w...OtherTriviaQuestions

This movie was the big screen debut of what two actors?
Bob Balaban and Blair Brown
Charles Haid and Thaao Penghlis
Drew Barrymore and William Hurt


15Untitled OtherThemesMouth of Madness


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16What did author Paddy Chayefsky think of...OtherTriviaQuestions

What did author Paddy Chayefsky think of the movie?
He disowned it.
He died before the release of the movie.
He loved it.


17What the difference in the lizard scene ...OtherTriviaQuestions

What the difference in the lizard scene between the book and the movie?
There is no lizard in the book, but there is in the movie.
Eddie kills several lizards in the book, and he only kills one lizard in the movie.
Eddie kills and eats the lizard in the book, and he only kills the lizard in the movie.











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