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What is a borrowed ladder or a de-generate in the movie Gattaca?
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∙ 12y ago
Vincent is considered an in-valid. Jerome is a valid. Vincent needed Jerome's genes to work at Gattaca. Vincent is now a "borrowed ladder" (a play on words referring to both the structure of an un-coiled DNA strand and the idiom of altitude as social status)
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoA "borrowed ladder" within the context of the film is someone who is genetically unfit to live within the professional world of the healthy, so they then either steal or contractually borrow the identity of someone who is healthy but who is either disenchanted with perfection or has come into a bad situation such as Jerome.
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∙ 13y agoSomeone who borrows someone else's idenity
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In the movie gattaca why was Vincent pretending to be jerome marrow?
Vincent is considered an in-valid. Jerome is a valid. Vincent needed Jerome's genes to work at Gattaca.
What Vincent means by there is no gene for fate during movie Gattaca?
your destiny is not already determined by your genetics, so you have the power to change your fate
How was Vincent freeman born in the movie gattaca?
Vincent Freeman is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Most of the babies in GATTACA were test tube babies. Vincent was a in-valid because of this.
Why do you the director of the movie gattaca chose the name gattaca for the film?
The four "bases" in DNA are G, A, T, and C So it's a word made up from those four letters.
How many healthy embryos were left after Marie's fertilized embryos were screened in the movie 'Gattaca'?
4
What do you think is wrong with the society portrayed in gattaca?
In the movie entitled Gattaca, the society was portrayed wrongly. It was in such a way that a Gattaca was able to beat the societal system.
What are hoovers in the movie gattaca?
Police that regulate the rules
What is Vincent's life expectancy in the movie 'Gattaca'?
30.2 years
In the movie gattaca why was Vincent pretending to be jerome marrow?
Vincent is considered an in-valid. Jerome is a valid. Vincent needed Jerome's genes to work at Gattaca.
Who wrote Gattica?
The movie Gattaca was written and directed by Andrew Niccol.
What have you already enough of built in according to the geneticist in the movie 'Gattaca'?
Imperfection
What Vincent means by there is no gene for fate during movie Gattaca?
your destiny is not already determined by your genetics, so you have the power to change your fate
How is discrimination portrayed in this movie who is discriminated against and why what are the results in the movie gattaca?
Mr Scott wouldn't like this
What movie or television show would be a biopunk?
The Gene Generation (2007) Gattaca
Who starred in the 1997 movie Gattaca?
Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman
How was Vincent freeman born in the movie gattaca?
Vincent Freeman is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Most of the babies in GATTACA were test tube babies. Vincent was a in-valid because of this.
Why do you the director of the movie gattaca chose the name gattaca for the film?
The four "bases" in DNA are G, A, T, and C So it's a word made up from those four letters.
