A Feature Film Based on the Acclaimed Novel by Richard Powers
Directed by the Award-Winning Director Mark A. Levinson
A — T · G — C
5' A T G C T A G G T C A A G 3'
3' T A C G A T C C A G T T C 5'
codon → amino acid?
if 4³ = 64, only 20 a.a.…
— the cipher must be degenerate
Goldberg playing again. Glenn G.
— 30 variations on one bass.
In 1957, a young molecular biologist arrives at a mid-western university determined to unravel the mystery of life — the code of the newly discovered DNA molecule.
But he is derailed by the discovery of music and love.
A quarter century later, a young couple team up to investigate a related mystery — who is the refined, over-educated gentleman who works as a graveyard shift computer operator in a dull Brooklyn data processing company?
The Gold Bug Variations : a novel / by Richard Powers. — New York : William Morrow, 1991. — 639 p. ; 24 cm.
Time Magazine "Book of the Year" · National Book Critics Circle Award · "A formidable masterpiece" — Kirkus.
Four interconnected characters — like the four molecules of DNA, and the four bass notes of Bach's Goldberg Variations — twist around each other in mirrored patterns as they try to decipher the complex codes of biology, of music, and of love.
— Directed by —
Director of Particle Fever, The Bit Player, The Universe in a Grain of Sand, Prisoner of Time — Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication · National Academies of Science Communication Award · Robert Sievers DaVinci Award. Former physicist. Experience on over forty-five feature films.
"I think films and formulas are both theories about how the universe operates."
— Based on the novel by —
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and the National Book Award for The Echo Maker. The Gold Bug Variations was named Time magazine's Book of the Year.
"Life consists of propositions about life."
— Development partners —
One letter per quarter — production notes and the occasional clue from the road.