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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
IMDB rating: 4.10
Plot: In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger.
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Directors: Dwight H. Little
Actors: Nicholas Hope,Peter Curtin,Byrd Eugene,Chestnut Morris,Gonzalez Nicholas,Marsden Matthew,Messner Johnny,Yune Karl,Anderson Andy,Arndt Denis,Do Khoa,Aireti,Tandjung Andre,Action,Adventure,Horror,Thriller,
Question about the movie Anaconda, The hunt for the blood orchid?
Plz help me. I really need to know these infos cuz we need it for the quiz. We watched it but my classmates are soo noisy! and i have a hard time understanding their accent.
1. What is the scientific name of the blood orchid?
2. What is the name of the spider that can paralyze? (base on the movie)
3.Why are the anacondas in the movie that big?
Thank you.. your answers will really help me. Even if you don’t know all the answer. I think 1 answer is already helpful.
1. Caladenia filifera
blood orchid (or Blood Spider Orchid)
http://www.webace.com.au/~chook/orchids/ caladenia/filifera.html
2. Not sure if either of these are the spider, but they belog to the same species and come from South America:
Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria spp.) or Armadeira (Phoneutria fera)
and South American ‘banana spider’ (Phoneutria nigriventer):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_w andering_spider
One bite from a wandering spider delivers a dose of neurotoxin to the bloodstream strong enough to cause paralysis in a matter of minutes. For some especially unlucky individuals, the dose is fatal.
The Phoneutria fera and nigriventer are the two most commonly implicated as the most virulent of the Phoneutria spiders.
3. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366174/
Computer-generated snakes were used so I guess they could make them any size they wanted for special effect.
In the first movie Annaconda (1997) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118615/) they used animatronic anacondas as well as CGI. During the filming of one scene the controls for the animatronic Anaconda shorted out, causing it to completely lose control. Some of the footage is included in the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda
Anacondas are four species of aquatic boa inhabiting the swamps and rivers of the dense forests of tropical South America.
See the section on size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda#Si ze
See also the wikipedia page on Giant Anacondas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_anaco nda where it states there have been reports of sightings of snakes upwards of 30 metres (98.4 feet) in size.
Anacondas normally only grow to size of 9 metres (30 ft), and 250 kilos in weight, but tales of truly gigantic specimens persist. Indeed, although some python species can grow longer in length, the anaconda, particularly the Green Anaconda, is the heaviest and largest in terms of diameter of all snakes, and is often considered the biggest snake in the world.
Perhaps the most well known and defining portrayal of giant anaconda in popular fiction is the 1997 film Anaconda, which portrayed a giant CGI anaconda hunting and killing several crew members from National Geographic, and its sequel Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
Also have a look at http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSna ke.htm for more information on anacondas.
theatricalwannabe | Jan 19, 2008
1. Caladenia filifera
2. Will get back to you on this question.
3. .There is some debate about the maximum size of anacondas, and there have been unverified claims of enormous snakes alleged to be as long as 30
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