When i was a kid I had a VHS double feature of Congo and The Ghost and the Darkness, I couldn't stop watching them. Jurassic Park really set me up to be a sucker for creature features. The whole genre, from Jaws, Congo, The Ghost and the Darkness, Anaconda, Bad Moon, even Godzilla 98 were on a loop on my player
@chrisadams8182
Ай бұрын
Ghost and the Darkness is a criminally underrated film.
@ladystoneheart8155
Ай бұрын
That’s a sweet double feature. Godzilla 98 had a bangin’ soundtrack
@shanewilliams9122
Ай бұрын
Ghost and the Darkness is so good at being an adventure tale and a horror film.
@crompazuzu6488
Ай бұрын
I completely forgot about ghost and the darkness!! Will watch again later 💥
@michaelbuczek1767
Ай бұрын
You’re also talking my 7-10 year old childhood brother lol.
@wstine79
Ай бұрын
"STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!!"
@toddboughn5168
Ай бұрын
One of my favorite line deliveries ever.
@davnez05
Ай бұрын
Mr. Holmoka 🤗
@muhacnt7988
Ай бұрын
Hehe😅
@edwardrivera4730
Ай бұрын
You beat me to it!
@rodlong1802
Ай бұрын
Blaahhhhh 🤮😂
@CmaverickD
Ай бұрын
I don't care what anyone says I love this movie.
@markmathisen3908
Ай бұрын
Everyone remembers the sesame cake line, but MY favorite line was just after this, when Delroy is stapling a paper grocery sack, which contains his generous bribe, "Don't want nobody peeking." 😂 My family repeats that quote damn near daily. Delroy Lindo may have had a short role in the film, but, man, did he make the best of his scene!! ❤😅
@elbryn1
Ай бұрын
"More"
@jasonritner9662
Ай бұрын
That man used every single moment of screen time he had to full effect. Fantastic scene.
@JoeyVerhalen-nw7py
27 күн бұрын
A lot of his parts are like that! Small parts and cameos that are just amazing!
@scromtar4235
13 күн бұрын
This line has been a running gag with me and my dad for decades. Love this movie. It has so many great line!
@dreamlandnightmare
Ай бұрын
Ernie Hudson, Bruce Campbell, Tim Curry, Jerry Goldsmith's score, and "STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!" are by far the best parts of this incredibly hokey big-budget B-movie.
@shainewhite2781
Ай бұрын
One of my favorite movies from my childhood! Stan Winston and Jerry Goldsmith made this movie work!
@jean-mi1825
Ай бұрын
I was about to say the same thing.
@powerglover2021
Ай бұрын
Eaters of the Dead / the 13th Warrior is also one of my favorite Criterion stories. Im still waiting for a 4k release of that.
@erikfinkel2717
Ай бұрын
Criterion or Crichton? lol
@robertoperezjr.1119
Ай бұрын
One of the few movies I like way better than the book.
@bandit_six5418
Ай бұрын
@@robertoperezjr.1119agreed. Eaters of the Dead is a hard read. In the forward, Crichton says how he was basically bet by a friend to adapt Beowulf and make it not boring. Pretty sure the friend won. But Critchton got that movie deal so 🤷♂️
@JD_79
27 күн бұрын
@@robertoperezjr.1119 I preferred the film The Great Train Robbery to the book, honestly.
@jerrymitchell77
Ай бұрын
Well finally someone does a take on Congo, one of my favorite movies. I was a big fan of Michael Critons novels after seeing the Andromeda strain in the movies. I started reading his books and he was the biggest inspiration for Stephen King. Back then there were a lot of great novelists and the paperback became the biggest sellers. All the great movies were based on novels. I read Congo in College and it screamed a movie waiting to be made. I have a list of the best performances in a movie that never gets acknowledged and Ernie Hudson had one of the best. This movie was the real deal and as usual it's finally getting the recognition it has long deserved
@ProgrammedForDamage
Ай бұрын
Tim Curry chewing the scenery, and the apes getting lasered make this movie a guilty pleasure of mine.
@ModusOperandom
17 күн бұрын
Taylor Nichols was on-screen when John Hawkes was mentioned as a cast member. John Hawkes played Bob Driscoll, the “almost dead” crew member the natives tried to resurrect who eventually died of fear when Amy turned up. Nichols played Jeffrey in the very beginning.
@adriennereyes5405
Ай бұрын
I wish Bruce Campbell was in the film longer
@raverfox420
Ай бұрын
Naw fam that cameo was perfect
@gaglir
Ай бұрын
Bruce said it was a good movie to die early in 😁
@unbrokn001
Ай бұрын
Tbf, I wish Bruce was in every movie.
@steverye8872
Ай бұрын
I did not even remember him being in this movie. Crazy.
@AndePants7376
Ай бұрын
I wish Bruce Campbell’s dong was in the film
@johnb528
Ай бұрын
Guilty pleasure of mine as well. I recently read the book. Among all the changes I thought the movie really made Dr. Elliott extremely unlikeable compared to the book.
@Coto516
Ай бұрын
I had this on VHS and rewatched it my whole childhood. Love it and hope it gets remade someday
@joebro391
Ай бұрын
Love this movie! One of my favorite guilty pleasures
@KesselRunner606
Ай бұрын
Always on the "Guilty Pleasure" shelf for me. It gets a lot wrong, but for all the right reasons. Tim Curry chewing the scenery. Ernie Hudson, the co-star who should be the main character of the film (seriously, a Munro Kelly movie would have been the new Indiana Jones). Bruce Campbell and Delroy Lindo stealing scenes. And Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic Tarzan Lord of the Jungle score. Love it.
@thetruebatman4632
Ай бұрын
I read this book waaaaaay too young and it took me on a Crichton tear. The Congo movie was decent and fun, I just wish that the “bad apes” in the movie used their “stone paddles” to clap heads like they did in the book lol that would’ve been a game changer.
@mykeljewell
Ай бұрын
I’d love a breakdown of every movie delroy lindo was in and/or should’ve been in over the years. The dude is so underrated
@sidekickz2180
Ай бұрын
The scene where the tribesmen chant over the dead body scared the CRAP outta me as a kid. It still might
@420247milo
Ай бұрын
CHIKA CHIKA CHIKA!!!
@RichardZinom
Ай бұрын
I wrote a book report in 1996 about Michael Crichton. I compared two of his books that had become movies (Jurassic Park and Congo) and one that hadn't to see if there were any notable differences. The book I chose to compare was Eaters of the Dead. I concluded that Eaters of the Dead would make a fantastic movie, but I had no idea why it wouldn't have been selected. I didn't get a very good grade on the paper. Three years later, the 13th Warrior came out.
@jasonritner9662
Ай бұрын
Look, Congo the movie isn't a masterpiece. It's an absolute blast full of great character actors just enjoying themselves. I would have loved for Ernie Hudson to have had a spin-off for Munroe. That character was just fantastic and clearly just needs more screen time. And I'd say something about Tim Curry, but what is there to say? Well, other than "STOP EATING MY SEASAME CAKE!" I find it's worth a watch at least every year or two. There's a charm in how committed so many of the actors are for such a lowkey movie.
@michaelhowell2326
Ай бұрын
Crichton's book about eco-terrorists, I want to say, "State of Fear", but I might be wrong about the title but I know he wrote it, it's really dang good.
@RAFAKAUST
Ай бұрын
Gorilla laser sesame cake. Sums up my childhood recollection of Congo and I fucking love it.
@sirraf23
Ай бұрын
"Amy good gorilla, Amy want green drop drink" I fucking love this movie so much 😂
@rummazknowsbest1152
Ай бұрын
I didn’t know Curry’s character was created for the film. I was reading the book, wondering when he was going to turn up. Slowly it dawned on me that he wouldn’t be along for the ride. Great book still.
@joebro391
Ай бұрын
Looks like it's time to do a "What happened To" with Sphere (1998)
@forsaken841
Ай бұрын
trainwreck movie, and i loved the book. great cast tho. shame.
@joebro391
Ай бұрын
@@forsaken841 and that's the whole point of this JoBlo series
@forsaken841
Ай бұрын
@@joebro391 would be nice to see why it turned out the way it did.
@ravissary79
Ай бұрын
Such a travesty as it's, IMHO, his best book.
@ftw4twcs
Ай бұрын
Sphere is a guilty pleasure. Could have been way better, but the casting was insane.
@robertjames6936
Ай бұрын
My little brothers still bring up the fact that I traumatized them with Congo when we were kids to this day. Good times.
@ChateauScholt
Ай бұрын
you forgot to mention the „Congo: The Movie - Descent into Zinj“ game which was released for Windows 3.11 on CD-ROM … it was not perfect but I liked it so much I still have it on my iPad in a DosBox Emulator
@blahlbinoa
Ай бұрын
I remember seeing this in a Drive-In. I enjoyed it and saw it again when my family rented it, I forgot about the movie until I saw this pop up on my recommended, lol
@AndePants7376
Ай бұрын
I remember walking to Taco Bell with my mom when I was in 1st grade. They had the Congo promotion going on at the time. Core memory accessed
@chaoticiannunez2419
Ай бұрын
I read in a Jurassic Park Making of book that Crichton approached Spielberg for Jurassic Park because he knew the movie would get made. He was annoyed with how long Congo took to produce.
@donovanbradford8231
Ай бұрын
Still enjoy watching this between Erine Hudson and Tim Curry playing off each other to the sets, locations, and practical effects. And the climax is probably on pair with Aliens for I'm sorry you said slow down I heard speed up.
@Crazycoyote-we7ey
Ай бұрын
He reignited Prehistoric Horror stories Jurassic Park and Lost World (Dinosaurs) Congo (Billy Apes) The 13th Warrior (Prehistoric Neanderthals)
@eshuorishas9987
Ай бұрын
I always loved the moment when someone asked about this film, “so who is the main character?” I never had an answer for that
@mytube650
Ай бұрын
Amy
@petejurich6114
Ай бұрын
Love that book. The movie was enjoyable. There’s definitely room for a remake.
@georgerafa5041
25 күн бұрын
This was one of my fav horror movies as a kid. Scared the crap outta me but damn i could rewatch it over and over.
@JrunkJesus
Ай бұрын
I remember watching this in the theater when I was a kid and me and my friends friggin LOVED It. (We all also thought that dude and Amy’s relationship was uhhh suspicious.😅) Great video!
@blatherskite3009
Ай бұрын
My main memory of this film is that "Zinj" (the name of the lost city) sounded way too much like "minge" for this Englishman to be able to take seriously. The name of a lost jungle city should inspire dread and wonder, not Beavis & Butt-head laughter. But maybe that was just a Brit thing.
@hardattackdj
Ай бұрын
Jargon isn’t fake language to appear real or scientific. It’s actual language in any specified field that anyone outside wouldn’t quite understand
@ottomattix86
Ай бұрын
As a child this movie scared the crap out of me. I dunno how it holds up now though. Needs a rewatch .
@carson21211
Ай бұрын
The build up to the first glimpse of the grey gorilla is intense! Love this film.
@Jaymcq
Ай бұрын
It definitely still hold up! 😎
@ec6933
Ай бұрын
I remember repeatedly seeing the trailer on the braveheart VHS and thinking it looked crazy lol
@claytongross5657
Ай бұрын
The movie was really good. I think it was the best role for Hudson, you can see it in his performance. I wish Tim Curry would of had just a little more in the movie. The sesame cake scene was hilarious as HELL!
@niobium79
Ай бұрын
First movie my then girlfriend (now wife of 13yrs) watched When the ape is playing with her plushy...her "lovie"....that was the first nickname we gave each other and when she pisses me off i call out "ugly monkey" 😅
@rachellarris2305
Ай бұрын
To me: the idea that generations of a new subspecies of great apes had been guarding a mine for thousands of years since it was abandoned based on the original training they were given, was way more fascinating than the diamonds (and would have been!). But one quibble, in the book they speculated maybe the apes were bred with humans but didn’t say they definitely were. Which was dumb even in the 90s because everyone knows you can’t produce hybrids with apes. ETA: someone else mentioned the stone paddles the apes used which made them even scarier because the bodies didn’t look like animals had killed them
@TfiveR
Ай бұрын
The Terminal Man, Sphere, and Andromeda Strain are all borderline horror/thrillers.
@SpicusMojificus
Ай бұрын
I was a kid saying the lines "Stop eating my sesame cake!" and "What are you doing in my country you big bag of shit?" over and over again after I saw that movie. I was enjoying the movie even before they got to the killer gorillas. I thought the laser gun was so cool at the time. I still love the movie even with all its flaws.
@joshuastriffolino9721
Ай бұрын
1. Murder on the Orient is an Agatha Christie novel, not Michael Crichton. It is directed by Sydney Limet, a notable name in his own right. 2. The Great Train Robbery is a Michael Crichton novel which he also wrote and directed a movie adaptation of starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. 3. Michael Crichtons degree was an MD, he took a post doctoral fellowship to work in Biological Studies specifically working on the study of Public Policy. 4. He taught Anthropology and studied it while in school, which is when he began to realize he was more interested in writing and research than being a doctor. 5. Westworld is not inspired by the Harlan Ellison short, if they are they share very little in common. Any comparison to “Terminator” as you stated is due to the fact that Arnold, a decade later, did take inspiration from Yul Brenners Gunslinger in Westworld. 6. The Terminator is inspired by Harlan Ellisons short Soldier From Tomorrow. Notably there was even a lawsuit as James Cameron refused to acknowledge that he clearly got the idea from a short story and Outter Limits episode from one of the greatest sci-fi authors of his day. 7. The screenwriter for Congo should be in jail for what he changed from Crichtons script. 8. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshal should be in jail for what they changed in Crichtons script, and for shooting Stan Winston in the foot by telling Stan Winston the Zinj scenes were dark nighttime shots 9. This movie is amazing and could have been better than Jurassic Park 10. Kathleen Kennedy should be in jail.
@matthewkuhn4293
Ай бұрын
The soundtrack to this movie is 🔥
@jean-mi1825
Ай бұрын
There's a whole story about it. Goldsmith wasn't supposed to do it, as he was working on Judge Dredd, but he apprently signed for the job YEARS AGO and was forced to quit the Judge Dredd production to do it instead. Apprently Crichton loved his work so much that when et quasi-took over The 13th Warrior, from McTiernan, it is him who jettisoned Graeme Revell original score and asked Goldsmith to do a new one. In the meantime, on the Judge Dredd's front, Alan Silvestri made a nice score while Goldsmith's amazing theme can be heard in the trailer... actually it was used in a few trailers (Lost In Space to name but one).
@edq6309
Ай бұрын
Me and my dad love this movie! One of the rare times we went to the movies together
@SamIRIZARRY84
Ай бұрын
I remember watching this as a kid and then sobbing in the bath with the door wide open because I was afraid that a white gorilla was gonna come busting through the wall and smash my head like they did to Curry’s character. I needed to make sure my parents could hear me screaming 😆 Good times
@Lex-up6mg
Ай бұрын
If they made Earnie Hudson the star of Congo it would have been a success
@dreamlandnightmare
Ай бұрын
Yeah, Dylan Walsh was a pretty lame and bland lead. Ernie Hudson just exudes coolness.
@npcimknot958
Ай бұрын
Yes. Omg. Still love the movie but damn Ernie got that swag
@johnmcnamara8741
Ай бұрын
The movie isn’t great, but I do love it.
@shiftybea
Ай бұрын
Micheal Crichton had nothing to do with Murder on the Orient Express but did direct Connery in The First Great Train Robbery (known as The Great Train Robbery in the US). Did you mean that?
@jean-mi1825
Ай бұрын
Yes that's what I thought as well
@phatnana2379
Ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite Tim Curry roles! Ps: hearing you mention Visual Basic programming makes me feel old
@DevilDogMuNky
25 күн бұрын
The soundtrack from the movie is pretty good too!
@MrDrProfessorAwesome
26 күн бұрын
I loved the Congo movie as a child, but was also horrified of it. My father would put the movie in, but as soon as it got scary I would hide behind the couch. So my dad would go to turn it off and I would bounce out from behind and so "NO, CONGO! CONGO!". Then I would go on to hide behind the couch again.
@jdsantibanez
Ай бұрын
Most Crichton novels had great premises but terrible third acts. The same happened to this movie.
@timhibbard4226
Ай бұрын
Reese Witherspoon was in consideration for the doctor?! They would have had to rewrite the role to make her some sort of wunderkind or something if they had gone that way because she was SO much younger than those other actresses.
@johnnybravo9096
Ай бұрын
I dont care, just like my love of Waterworld, I love this film. Some great charachters, music, cinematography and even hints of comedy. Just a fun film all round to watch. I love describing the synopsis of this film to people who havent watched it lol
@JoBloHorrorOriginals
Ай бұрын
You get it!
@3rdedk
Ай бұрын
After coming across H.P. Lovecraft’s “Arthur Jermyn” (and especially after I realized “The 13th Warrior” (“Eaters of the Dead”) was a retelling of “Beowulf”), I remember thinking, “I watched something like this as a kid, and it was in the Congo too.” Never read the book “Congo” so I never knew about the human/ape hybrids of the white apes (which is a HUGE part of “Arthur Jermyn”).
@chrish3126
Ай бұрын
I miss seeing Tim Curry in things. Such a fantastic actor.
@deadseveredheads
Ай бұрын
This movie TERRIFIED ME as a kid in the 90's.
@Kaledarkwind6151
29 күн бұрын
I do feel like alot of crichtons work can be horror in some aspects. He chose to write about the darker sides of humanity and tech and of course there is going to be some horror there. There was a book he did no one ever talks about called Airframe that most people havnt heard about. But it has moments of pure fucking terror but not in the way most people expect lol. He was a genius.
@larrymanns364
25 күн бұрын
I LOVED this movie as a kid!
@robertholland3895
Ай бұрын
Congo wasn’t a great book either. The main issue is that the villainous gorillas was actually a really good sci fi/horror idea but it just didn’t mesh well with the pulp adventure feel.
@crazyhudson
27 күн бұрын
“Put them on the endangered species list “. This movie actually had some pretty awesome lines.
@TheMacJew
Ай бұрын
It wasn't Orient Express Crichton and Connery worked on. It was Great Train Robbery
@jean-mi1825
Ай бұрын
Thank youuuuu!! 😂 👍🏻🖖🏻🤘🏻
@gersonislas
Ай бұрын
Saw the movie as a kid, and loved it
@420247milo
Ай бұрын
First movie that made me cry at the end leaving Amy sad😢
@lfroncek
Ай бұрын
My favorite Ernie Hudson role. Hands down.
@1SciFiGeek508
Ай бұрын
The problem with the movie was it couldn't hold the suspense. The book could give describe shadows & vague images, but the movie has to eventually show the monster. Then people go "oh, it's a big monkey". It just can't maintain the same tension
@kneztm
Ай бұрын
Watched this in the theaters as a kid. It's fun, I like it!
@ryanpetersen3789
Ай бұрын
I loved this movie as a kid and recently revisited it. It’s still a fun jungle adventure with a surprisingly dark final act. Bruce’s cameo is fun.
@shawnbell3468
Ай бұрын
Hey JoBlo check the sound before uploading to KZitem, always better to be too loud than too quiet, and well it's too quiet.
@zenquantum1246
Ай бұрын
No mention of Jimmy Buffett’s very brief cameo as the pilot who bails out from the damaged cargo plane ahead of the main cast?
@kenxiong6830
Ай бұрын
There needs to be a reboot of this movie
@deshaunbethea5254
Ай бұрын
@kenxiong6830 I agreed. 20th century studios (Formerly known as 20th century fox owned by Disney) apparently still have the book and despite that they haven’t adapted it into the big screen and should’ve been (Despite Nickelodeon’s parent Paramount pictures stole and distributed the movie under their name) and let’s hope that they should rebooted it either theatrically or head to streaming to Disney plus and Hulu.
@kenxiong6830
Ай бұрын
@@deshaunbethea5254 I’m cool with Disney doing a reboot as long as they don’t try to DEI the shit out of it lol
@deshaunbethea5254
Ай бұрын
@@kenxiong6830 F-ck yes. Besides especially before they acquired 20th century studios, 20th century itself as Disney’s recent subsidiary apparently in the past as well in the present did made various well-know films that are based on books and book trilogy series including, My Friend Flicka, Planet of the Apes, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Night at the Museum. Besides I’ve read the article from Wikipedia that Michael Crichton before he sadly passed away in 2008, he literally wanted 20th century fox to adapt his book Congo into a film for many reasons after he gave his book to movie rights of his Jurassic Park books to universal pictures (Despite Nickelodeon’s parent Paramount Pictures somehow stole and distributed it under their name and their Congo film version sucked balls). Also when they do reboot it as a film or television show I wanted to be computer-animated by studios such as industrial light and magic or reel fx animation with the film also being co-produces by Amblin Entertainment with screenplay being written and the film itself directed by Steven Speildberg with top sci-fi cast choices with Tom cruise as primatologist Peter Elliot, Barbara mamabolo as Amy the talking ape, Sharlto copely as Charles Munro, Adewale as Kahega (Reprising his role) and Tricia Helier as Karen Ross. No to mention that the original book that this godawful film is supposed set in the year 1979 but unlike the book that did the movie was poorly marketed after they did a product placement with Taco Bell.
@CTEagleCeltic
Ай бұрын
Definitely on repeat at my house… born in 85, to a young dad… I think HBO eventually had this on repeat for a few years too.
@calebperrin8270
Ай бұрын
I consider Michael Chrichtons works to be horror adjacent. They usually deal with calamity, and that is expressed through sci-fi and action themes, but the premise and content of many of his works are scary enough, and also involve horrific violence.
@369frequencyandvibration
Ай бұрын
Thanks for Making this video! 📽️📼
@Steve_8341
Ай бұрын
Always loved this movie, guilty pleasure
@garyswoleman4698
Ай бұрын
I could never not love Congo.
@bobbybushe2389
Ай бұрын
i remember watching the movie then later on went to the local library to read the book
@npcimknot958
Ай бұрын
The animatornics for this movie is insanely impressive.
@kitsunefirefox1986
Ай бұрын
Outside of the Jurassic Park books & films my favorite book/films from Criterion are Congo,Rising Sun & Eaters of the Dead/ (13th Warrior)
@michaelsnydermusic
Ай бұрын
Loved the book. Same with Sphere. Way better than the movies.
@davidkanengieter
Ай бұрын
Saw this in the theater, really liked it. To this day, my brother and I will still joke and do the sign language and say "Amy sad gorilla."
@scottyjbd
Ай бұрын
Loved this so much I made my mother take me back to the theater to see it again the very next day!
@Nunya310
Ай бұрын
“Solomon must have gotten his diamonds from Cartiers like everybody else”
@ChrisOnStage2
Ай бұрын
I read the book and the one thing that stuck with me (that you overlooked) were the stone paddles the vicious hybrid apes used to kill the intruders with! It's a real shame the MOVIE never put that in!
@roc7880
Ай бұрын
The JP book was much deeper than the movie, and no sequel was even equal with the original. Congo was a bad adaptation because you cannot make a two hour movie to be faithful, but a series.
@robertmaxwell1016
Ай бұрын
7:37 it's still jargon Jargon- special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
@erroneous6947
Ай бұрын
This was hugely marketed and advertised. It was the Pepsi movie of the summer. I paid money to see this at the drive in. I still remember the crystal shape of the “diamonds” was wrong. They were hexagonal like quartz. That’s a very simple thing to double check/ verify. I think the expensive marketing helped bury this movie.
@TheFreakedoutduck
Ай бұрын
We need a new generation of Horror/Action books to movies wave, May I suggest someone make Scott Sigler's "Ancestor" into a movie.
@Limubi1
Ай бұрын
I remember this being on the telly... I like Michael Crichton adaptations on the whole. 13th Warrior is a personal favourite of mine and my Dad's 😊
@eddykaye8217
Ай бұрын
I remembered as a kid, everyone thought the gorilla was real
@brandonhoover4752
Ай бұрын
It's been a guilty pleasure since I was a kid and one of my top 4K wishlist movies.
@robertlevy3110
Ай бұрын
One of my favorite books. I really enjoyed the movie too.
@jesusromanpadro3853
Ай бұрын
The only thing I remember of this movie is the hippopotamus attack. I didn't know how dangerous they are.
@weston407
Ай бұрын
it's B-movie goodness with a high budget and a great cast - highly recommend giving it a rewatch
@robertherbst9487
Ай бұрын
I went to school with his niece and nephew. They had bitter things to say but I'm sure success compared to their bumpkin lives was a factor. Odd coincidence though.
@jrr2480
Ай бұрын
I think 🤔 the book could be adapted to a streaming series. 📺
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