{"id":6116,"date":"2021-12-01T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:09:21","slug":"a-1963-movie-announcing-the-omicron-variant-no-a-photomontage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/2021\/12\/01\/a-1963-movie-announcing-the-omicron-variant-no-a-photomontage\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1963 movie announcing the \u201cOmicron variant\u201d? No, a photomontage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poster is circulating on social networks, mainly in Spanish, claiming that a film dating from 1963 would have predicted an \u201cOmicron variant\u201d, of the same name as the new variant of Covid-19 discovered in South Africa. But this is a photomontage made from the poster of another film.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The movie poster titled \u201cThe Omicron Variant\u201d reveals a bloodied hand with a man and a woman looking skyward, in a psychedelic setting. The English surtitle reads: \u201cThe day the Earth was turned into a cemetery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some Facebook users sharing the poster are outraged about a \u201chidden agenda\u201d with a film \u201cshot over 50 years ago\u201d. Others specify that the film dates from 1963.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--original\"><figcaption class=\"m-figure__caption\">Example of publication circulating in French on Facebook. \u00a9 Observers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>A poster of another film, modified \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the poster used in these publications does not exist as is, as its title has been changed. The film\u2019s initial title is \u201cPhase IV\u201d (\u201cSucesos en la IV Fase\u201d, in Spanish).<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--original\"><figcaption class=\"m-figure__caption\">Original poster of the movie \u201cPhase IV\u201d (Sucesos en la IV Fase) unmodified. \u00a9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is a 1974 film directed by Saul Bass, in which a scientist discovers that the cosmos influences certain species of ants in Arizona. These become particularly aggressive, to the point of attacking humans to dominate the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2026 But the movie \u201cOmicron\u201d exists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who shared these posts have confused this movie with another: \u201cOmicron\u201d (not \u201cThe Omicron Variant\u201d), a parody sci-fi movie, which dates back to 1963 and was directed by Ugo Gregoretti.<\/p>\n<p>In this film, an alien grabs the body of an Earthman in order to learn more about the planet and threatens the human race.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--original\"><figcaption class=\"m-figure__caption\">Poster of the movie \u201cOmicron\u201d released in 1963. \u00a9 IMDB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>News9live news outlet notes that this film and another, \u201cVisitor to Planet Omicron\u201d (released in 2013), have both seen renewed interest since the emergence of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that supposed old posters or extracts from documentaries have been presented with the aim of proving that the Covid-19 pandemic would have been foreseen: a painting, claiming to show \u201clife in 2022\u201d, and a report of 1956 which would have announced a global epidemic coming from Asia in 2020 had in particular circulated in October 2020. Find the decryption of these two examples in the episode of Info or Intox below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster is circulating on social networks, mainly in Spanish, claiming that a film dating from 1963 would have predicted an \u201cOmicron variant\u201d, of the same name as the new variant of Covid-19 discovered in South Africa. But this is a photomontage made from the poster of another film. 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