“Birds of Prey” and the Fantabulous Emancipation from the DCEU
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Conceiving Ada (1999)
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
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Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
Rating:NR
Genre:Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
Written By:Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Eileen Jones
In Theaters:2/19/1999
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Runtime:85 minutes
Studio:Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
Cast
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Director
Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
Sims
Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow
John Crosse
John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy
William Lovelace
David Brooks
Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan
Mary Shelley
Ellen Sebastian
Dr. Fury
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