Hopland had people to call, but he hadn't sprung for the personal Verizon international plan, because, as he puts it, “I'm cheap.” That's also the reason he and his wife, Jeanie, had opted for a cabin on Deck 5 on a ship that rose to 18. By the time its crisis concluded, the Diamond would be less punch line than premonition.Īrnold Hopland reached for his cabin phone after hearing Arma's announcement. Over time, though, the luxury ship proved to be a microcosm of the world's battle with the novel coronavirus: the laggard response, the upstairs-downstairs inequality, the limitations of privilege against a pandemic, and how global interconnection allowed the virus to take over. Now the ship would become the first big outbreak outside the Chinese epicenter and a mutating symbol: at first, a Fyre Festival-like joke, its buffed banisters, restaurants, casinos, and dance floors converted into beguiling on-ramps for infection. For days, as passengers played bingo and drank mai tais in the Skywalker Lounge, it had invisibly hopscotched from one person to another. No one knew at that point how much damage the virus had already caused.
The length of quarantine will be at least 14 days … The local public health official has requested all guests stay in their stateroom … It has been confirmed that the ship will remain under quarantine in Yokohama. The Ministry of Health has notified us that 10 people have tested positive for coronavirus … Ferrying out to meet the ship late on February 3, health workers boarded and spent that night and the next day walking cabin to cabin, asking if people were feverish or coughing, taking temperatures and swabbing throats. The captain was told to speed back early from Okinawa to Tokyo Bay, so that passengers and crew could be screened. Then, in the predawn hours of February 2, Princess Cruises' vice president of maritime operations had awoken Arma with preliminary information that a passenger in his eighties who had left the ship in Hong Kong eight days earlier had since tested positive for the same virus. Three days into the voyage, news reports arrived that China had shut down all travel from and within Wuhan, an inland city of 11 million, in an attempt to squelch a new coronavirus.
Two weeks earlier, on January 20, Arma had sailed the Diamond southwest from Yokohama for a 14-day cruise to China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, then back to Japan. Hearing a knock- there they are-Arma strapped on a surgeon's mask, opened the door, and greeted two Japanese health officers who strode in, also wearing gloves and masks, ready to deliver the verdict. Then there was That Other Option, less clear and more ominous. Passengers would trudge down the gangway, Samsonites rumbling, a little befuddled by their brush with calamity but on their way. He hoped for a Return to Normal: He would thunder up the engines and glide the Diamond from its anchored stillness out in Tokyo Bay into the port of Yokohama. The passengers on the Diamond Princess were mostly asleep, and Arma, not long awake himself, brooded over the possibilities. He wore a crisp black uniform with shiny brass buttons and lifted the tiny cup with fingers swathed in cheap latex gloves. There was no way to actually pause it, unless you're a despicable pirate (shame on you, devil), but that montage of deaths is so brilliant and so strange that it deserves appraisal in slow motion.Before dawn on the 5th of February, Captain Gennaro Arma sipped espresso in his tidy office, wondering how bad the news would be. It's like the Groundhog Day suicides all over again! Even if Dormammu himself is not a great character, the sequence is brilliant - particularly when the demon acts out and murders Strange several times to test the time-loop.
A LOT Marvel StudiosĪt the culmination of the excellent Doctor Strange debut, Benedict Cumberbatch tricks Dormammu into a pact to leave Earth alone by trapping him in an eternal time-loop. Here are the moments that wore out your pause button in 2016.
#27 MOST PAUSED MOVIE MOMENTS FULL#
And 2016 has been full of those moments from day one. That's where the pause button comes in - and mercifully, in combination with the HD experience of blu-rays, you won't struggle with jumping lines of interference as you try to find the last remaining secrets hidden in Marvel's latest offerings.īut there's also something timeless about pause moments: in the past the sexiest, most disgusting and most unbelievable moments in film have had viewers reaching to freeze them to enjoy them for longer.
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