Contagion vs. Outbreak | Let Us Explain

People have been turning to pandemic-themed media, as Contagion sits atop movie rental charts and Outbreak trends on Netflix. How do these disease-centric movies hold up in the age of coronavirus? Did either movie have lessons we should have learned? What moments have found a strange, new resonance in our current circumstances?

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Dr. Larry Brilliant

This series of 'Contagion' interviews

This news story

TIMECODES…

00:00 - Intro

01:02 - Background

03:16 - Which is better?

07:15 - The use of celebrities

08:59 - Aesthetic differences

15:22 - How does it resonate?

22:43 - How they resolve differently

26:24 - Fake news & fake cures

28:13 - Better cast?

30:14 - Bong Joon-ho's The Host

30:42 - Other pandemic movies

32:12 - Final Contagion thoughts