Trivia WAS: A medical Pandora's box

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Regarding GATTACA (from the previous link):

The Gattaca building (interiors and exteriors) is, in reality, the

Marin County Civic Center in San , CA. It was designed by

American star architect Lloyd in 1957. The largest

design ever constructed, it was largely built after his death

in 1959. The central dome (prominent in the roof-cleaning scene)

contains the county library.

Many of the " futuristic " buildings in the film are actually quite

old. Many of these represent a type of postmodern architecture

called " brutalism " , which was popular in the 1950s. The two massive

arches seen behind Jerome and Irene during their talk are actually

the spillway of the Sepulveda Dam in Los Angeles, which was built in

the 1930s.

The film was shot under the title " The Eighth Day " . This was a

reference to the Biblical creation story, which states that the earth

was created in six days and on the seventh day, God rested. The

original title implies the tampering of man with what God has already

made, and " The Eighth Day " is still the name of the center in the

movie where the children are engineered, as noted on the DVD deleted

scenes. By the time the much-delayed release of the film came around,

a Belgian film, Huitième jour, Le (1996), had already been released

in the US under the title " The Eighth Day " . Because of this, writer-

director Niccol was forced to choose a new title for his film.

Public address announcements in the Gattaca Corporation headquarters

building are in Esperanto, an artificial language invented in the

19th century.

The name " Gattaca " is composed entirely of the letters used to label

the nucleotide bases of DNA. The four nitrogen bases of DNA

(deoxyribonucleic acid) are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.