looker

　

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1. someone who looks on (同)looker-on
2. perceive with attention; direct ones gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
3. have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"
4. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him" (同)looking, looking at
5. physical appearance; "I dont like the looks of this place"
6. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" (同)appear, seem
7. accord in appearance with; "You dont look your age!"
8. convey by ones expression; "She looked her devotion to me"

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1. 《話》美しい人(女性)
2. 見物人,傍観者(spectator, looker-on)
3. 器具のよい女性,美人
4. 見物人,傍観者
5. 目を向ける,眺める / (ある状態に)『見える』 / 〈家などが〉(…の)方を向いている,(…を)見渡せる《+『on』(『upon,into,to,toward,over』)+『名』》 / 〈状況・事態が〉(…に)傾く,向かう《+『to』(『toward』)+『名』》 / 《命令の慣用表現で注意や要求・抗議など》 / …‘を'『じっと見る;』…‘に'目をやめる / …‘に'ふさわしく見える / …‘を'(顔つき)で表す / 《単数形で》(…を)『見ること』《+『at』+『名』》 / 《単数形で》(人の)『顔つき』,表情,目つき / 《単数形で》(物事の)『外観』,様子 / 《複数形で》容ぼう,器量

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Looker
original film poster
Directed by	Michael Crichton
Produced by	Howard Jeffrey
Written by	Michael Crichton
Starring	Albert Finney James Coburn Susan Dey Leigh Taylor-Young Terri Welles
Music by	Barry De Vorzon
Cinematography	Paul Lohmann
Edited by	Carl Kress
Production company	The Ladd Company
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 30, 1981
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3,281,232

This article is about the 1981 movie ""Looker". For other uses, see Looker (disambiguation).

Looker is a 1981 American science-fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton and starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. The film is a suspense/science-fiction piece that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, TV's effects on the populace, and a ridiculous standard of beauty.

Though spare in visual effects, the film is notable for being the first commercial film to attempt to make a realistic computer-generated character, for the model named Cindy. It was also the first film to create three-dimensional (3D) shading with a computer, months before the release of the better-known Tron.

Plot

Dr. Larry Roberts (Finney), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is puzzled when four beautiful models working in television commercials request cosmetic surgery to make changes so minor as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. When these models later start dying under mysterious circumstances, he discovers they are all linked to the same advertisement research firm.

The Digital Matrix research firm rates advertising models using a scoring system to measure the combined visual impact of various physical attributes in television commercials. In an experiment to increase their scores, some models are sent to Dr. Roberts to get cosmetic surgery to maximize their visual impact. Though the models are physically perfect after the surgery, they still are not as effective as desired, so the research firm decides to use a different approach. Each model is offered a contract to have her body scanned digitally to create 3D computer-generated models, then the 3D models are animated for use in commercials. The contracts seem to be incredibly lucrative for the models; once their bodies are represented digitally, they get a paycheck for life, never having to work again, since their digital models are used for all their future work in commercials.

However, when these same models start dying under mysterious circumstances, Roberts becomes suspicious and decides to investigate Digital Matrix. He has a strong interest in investigating the deaths: he is considered a prime suspect by the police (from evidence planted at the scene of one of the murders) and his most recent patient, (with whom he is in a relationship) Cindy (Susan Dey). Cindy is the last of the models to be digitally scanned.

During his investigation, Roberts discovers some advanced technology that the Digital Matrix corporation is using to hypnotize consumers into buying the products they advertise. He also discovers the Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.) gun, a light pulse device that gives the illusion of invisibility by instantly mesmerizing its victims into losing all sense of time.

Cast

• Albert Finney as Dr. Larry Roberts
• James Coburn as John Reston
• Susan Dey as Cindy Fairmont
• Leigh Taylor Young as Jennifer Long
• Dorian Harewood as Lieutenant Masters
• Darryl Hickman as Dr. Jim Belfield
• Terri Welles as Lisa Convey
• Terry Kiser as Commercial Director

Production

Crichton started thinking about the subject of the film in 1975. He says he went to a Los Angeles computer company to find out how they could create copies in commercials without looking too ridiculous and discovered a company in Texas was already doing it, called tomography.

Looker became an early production of The Ladd Company. It was Leigh Taylor-Young's first film in eight years.

Reception

Looker was poorly received by critics. The film holds a 28% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews. It was also unsuccessful at the box office.

Versions

There appear to be two versions of the film. The original theatrical cut is what appeared in theaters in 1981 and is what has appeared on most video releases, including the 2007 region 1 DVD release.

TV airings have been of a slightly different edit, containing a sequence in which Reston, after detaining Roberts and Cindy in his mansion, explains why he had the other models murdered (the reason for the killings remains unexplained in the theatrical release, resulting in a plot hole). He says the models were the 'measurements' and that it was corporate policy to 'shred old documents' that competitors might use. After Reston leaves to attend a dinner party, Roberts and Cindy are able to escape.

On his DVD commentary track, Crichton alludes to difficulties he had editing Looker, which may account for why the TV version contains more exposition. Another possibility is that television screenings were lengthened to fill a particular time slot.

Another change is during the ending walkaway. In the original release, a voiceover by Reston details the chillingly powerful influence of television on the American viewers, from part of a speech he makes earlier in the film. The voiceover in the newer version of the film is a public relation piece for the Reston company.

The Vivaldi music chosen by the doctor is the flute concerto in G minor Op 10 No 2 RV439 la notte IV allegro.

MPAA rating

The film contains female nudity, though none of it is explicitly sexual in nature. Despite these graphic depictions, the film was re-rated PG, although originally rated R. It would almost certainly have received a PG-13 rating if it had been made a few years later but the PG-13 did not exist in 1981.

Trivia

Former NFL linebacker Tim Rossovich is featured as the villain's main henchman.

See also

• Timeline of CGI in film and television

External links

• Looker on IMDb
• Looker at AllMovie
• Looker at Rotten Tomatoes

English Journal

• B-vitamin status and bone mineral density and risk of lumbar osteoporosis in older females in the United States.

• Bailey RL1, Looker AC2, Lu Z3, Fan R3, Eicher-Miller HA4, Fakhouri TH5, Gahche JJ2, Weaver CM4, Mills JL3.
• The American journal of clinical nutrition.Am J Clin Nutr.2015 Sep;102(3):687-94. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.115.108787. Epub 2015 Jul 29.
• BACKGROUND: Previous data suggest that elevated serum total homocysteine (tHcy) may be a risk factor for bone fracture and osteoporosis. Nutritional causes of elevated tHcy are suboptimal B-vitamin status. To our knowledge, this is the first nationally representative report on the relation of B vita
• PMID 26224297

• Measures of atherosclerotic burden are associated with clinically manifest cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes: a European cross-sectional study.

• Shore AC1, Colhoun HM2, Natali A3, Palombo C4, Östling G5, Aizawa K1, Kennbäck C5, Casanova F1, Persson M5, Gooding K1, Gates PE1, Khan F2, Looker HC2, Adams F2, Belch J2, Pinnoli S3, Venturi E3, Morizzo C4, Goncalves I5, Ladenvall C5, Nilsson J5; SUMMIT consortium.
• Journal of internal medicine.J Intern Med.2015 Sep;278(3):291-302. doi: 10.1111/joim.12359. Epub 2015 Apr 13.
• BACKGROUND: There is a need to develop and validate surrogate markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in subjects with diabetes. The macrovascular changes associated with diabetes include aggravated atherosclerosis, increased arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction. The aim of this study was
• PMID 25752315

• Specific expression and export of the Plasmodium falciparum Gametocyte EXported Protein-5 marks the gametocyte ring stage.

• Tibúrcio M1,2, Dixon MW3, Looker O4, Younis SY5,6, Tilley L7, Alano P8.
• Malaria journal.Malar J.2015 Aug 28;14(1):334. doi: 10.1186/s12936-015-0853-6.
• BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum sexual development plays a fundamental role in the transmission and spread of malaria. The ability to generate gametocytes can be lost during culture in vitro, often associated with the loss of a subtelomeric region of chromosome 9. Gametocytogenesis starts with ery
• PMID 26315106

Japanese Journal

• いじめと養護教諭の姿勢 : 問題より「人」にかかわり続けるということ (特集 いじめと養護教諭)

• 井川 三千子
• 学校健康相談研究 10(1), 14-24, 2013-10
• NAID 40019865893

• 囚人のジレンマを用いたいじめ発生メカニズムの解析と対策

• 矢野 翔大,近 匡,小柳 文子
• 成蹊大学理工学研究報告 50(1), 1-7, 2013-06
• … We study the bullying as a situation of the Looker-on Dilemma and analyzed the selective action of students who will become to stop bullying. … We found that students who strategically control action get a higher gain than who keep looker-on. …
• NAID 120005305801

• 視野内の物体の有無が対面者の視線知覚に及ぼす影響(マルチモーダル,感性情報処理,視知覚とその応用,一般)

• 桜井 謙次,高井 基行,蒲池 みゆき
• 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告. HIP, ヒューマン情報処理 111(283), 33-38, 2011-11-03
• 人間の視線知覚に関しては,対面者の頭部方向や眼裂強膜の輝度方向など,状況に依存してズレが生じることが明らかとなっている.しかし,対面者の顔以外の視野内の情報が視線知覚に及ぼす影響に関しての研究は不十分である.本研究では特に,正確な視線の制御が可能である三次元顔モデルを用いて,被験者周辺にオブジェクトを配置した状況下で視線判断課題を行い,物体の知覚的領域が対面者の視線の自他判断に及ぼす影響を検討した …
• NAID 110009466615

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