John Anderton

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I think John Anderton, and then just made a whole thing

thingThe Philip K. Dick adaptation special.

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Um, uh, and yeah, every time I watch, I watch it a lot.

Um, and I just think it just works like gangbusters.

And like that first scene, I think it's like, and this is true of like a lot of Spielberg scenes, but I think the opening scene of Minority Report where they discover that there's going to be a murder and Anderton has to figure out where it is and how to get it, I think that scene is like textbook definition of what good directing [laughs] is.

Mm-hmm.

Indeed, with the aid of indispensable precognitives, a trio of humans with acute extrasensory abilities under government custody, there hasn't been a single crime in 2054 Washington DC for the past six years.

However, of all people, Burgess' right-hand man, Captain John Anderton, seems to be a precriminal.

Now on the run from the law for a homicide he has yet to commit in less than 36 hours, Detective Anderton has to use every trick in the book to prove his innocence and clear his name.

But in Burgess' state-of-the-art system, there is no such thing as a mistake.

Also you can, may be able to say, "Oh, it's indirectly related to murder," but...

We can kinda go through some of the characters in the movie too.

So you mentioned Chief John Anderton in the beginning, played by Tom Cruise.

He's the commanding officer of Precrime, so he's like the guy on the ground doing the arrests and things.

Yeah.

It's a flawless system until the chief of the division, John Anderton, receives a vision that he is going to murder a man he has never even met

Philip K. Dick is another author whose short fiction has been an absolute goldmine for Hollywood.

His novellas are almost entirely idea-driven.

I have my little quickly written summary.

So Tom Cruise's character, John Anderton, he works in pre-crime in 2054, where they're using, what do we call them? They are humans.

Humans, which they call precogs, who can predict murder before they happen.

Tom Cruise has been driven to this department because he has, we find out, has experienced the loss and presumed murder of his six-year-old son earlier, which has also driven him to drugs and lost his wife, blah, blah, blah, the usual.

And also, I always thought it was funny.

His name in the movie is John Anderton.

And I'm like, just call him John Anderson.

Why are we, what's Anderton? That's not a real name.

Kind of a crazy idea.

Yeah, so Tom Cruise, he's Chief John Anderton.

And very good at his job.

Until Colin Farrell's character, Danny Whitworth, shows up.

And then he finally like stands up with scissors.

My favorite part is when he stands up and he goes, I forgot my glasses.

Yeah, it's like, it's really, it's all very serious, and then once John Anderton, Tom Cruise's character runs, it becomes kind of slapstick.

Like I said, it's, it reminds me, it gives Temple of Doom vibes, because it's just silly, over-the-top fighting, like, they've got jetpacks, it's the future, which you have feelings on the jetpacks.