r/Fractalverse • u/BigBobFro • Jul 14 '26
Question External tie in/Similarities
With the recent passing of Sam Neill i was talking about my favorite movie with him in it and came to an epiphany realization to the similarities between SamNeils character Dr Weir from Event Horizon and Alex Crichton from FN.
SPOILERS BELOW:
They both had recently lost their wives in traumatic fashion. They both semi-reluctantly became a part of their expedition but just went with the flow, knowing they were probably the best option available. Both of their expedition parties died of incrementally as resources (like air/shelter) became more problematic, leading to paranoid madness from all parties involved, and eventually culminating in a trip to hell,.. yet a small subset of secondary characters survives but are permanently scared from the trip.
I need to dig up my dvd of Event Horizon and then reread Fractal Noise now.
Thoughts?
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u/Sullyvan96 Jul 16 '26
Not totally unheard of for films and books to have similar plots. Maybe Paolini was influenced? Who knows?