DEAD RINGERS (1988) - Dr. Beverly Mantle is operating a "mutant woman"

This scene was also used as visual inspiration for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Samaritan Snare" in Season 2 where Cpt. Picard underwent open heart surgery.

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Entertainment

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• Dead Ringers
• David Cronenberg
• Jeremy Irons
• Mutant Operation

[rem2267]

OK now -- just bear with me. If I'm being operated on by a guy who's standing in a cross/crucifix formation, dressed like the Pope, backed up by several other popes, bishops, hangmen and/or devil-worshippers, I don't know how much confidence I may have as to the outcome of the operation. Furthermore, it might make me think their use of red is to save on cleaning bills for the uniforms. Is it just me, or does anyone out there agree?

[Darkcyde404]

1:09 Those are some hardcore vagina fixers.

[Chrisdeleon91]

Why so many people to fix one vagina, give me that finger instrument and ill craft the most beautiful vagina on earth.

[Distortion0]

I always interpreted it as Beverly had gone crazy and taken up all these bizarre rituals, but none his peers could judge him as crazy because they all thought he was smarter than they were. They couldn't tell insanity from genius. A la Alan Moore "How do you tell when the world's most intelligent man has gone insane? Who's even qualified to judge that?"

[kingmackattack42]

The red scrubs are a nice touch for this movie. It made a creepy movie even creepier. One of my favs.

[KurosawasHouseBand]

Maybe not my favorite Cronenberg film but I'd say it's his best.

[Rbatty2]

Cronenberg likes to joke to people that Canadian surgeons wear that colour when he goes outside the country but no we Canucks use green like everyone else. The film is clearly set in 1988 so its not the near future either, an alternate reality perhaps. David said he wanted to avoid the tired operating room cliches and so using the "College of Cardinals" red look was his way of putting a new spin on them. He says he only likes to capture the illusion of reality, not "real life" itself.

[DoctorHeiterMD]

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[rem2267]

@DoctorHeiterMD

1) This is very true.

2) Not sure what a Kindertoy is. I know that Kinder is German for child, though. Would it be a similar situation to the doctor's watch coming off and remaining inside the patient somewhere? Now THAT would be a very David Kronenberg thing to do!

[rem2267]

@TPoPArt - Cheers.

[DoctorHeiterMD]

@rem2267 That is why you always heavily anesthetize your patients so they have no idea what was done to them. Just be glad that they don't forget a Kindertoy up in there when they are finished...

[kittylass5]

@TPoPArt Not in America they don't. That's why I think the hospital was based in Canada or some otherEnglish- speaking country. Either that or it's supposed to be sometime in the near future.