In 1987, artist Lebbeus Woods took a graphite pencil and created his vision of a chair. The chair is shown inside a large chamber with a high ceiling, mounted on a wall in front of a suspended sphere, and with a visibly jointed grid forming the floor and wall.Universal Studios released the film 12 Monkeys in December of 1995. Bruce Willis plays the distraught time traveler, Joe. In the beginning of the movie, Joe is brought into the interrogation room and told to sit in a chair which is attached to a vertical rail on the wall. As Joe sits in the chair, it slides up the rail, suspending Joe helplessly several yards above the floor. A sphere supported by a metal armature is suspended directly in front of Joe, probing for weaknesses as the inquisitors interrogate him.
Was this chair the same chair the Woods had drawn?
Yes it was. It was more or less an exact replica of Wood's drawing he had done in 1987. Terry Gilliam even admitting to the fact that he had viewed the drawing in Wood's book, 'Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber'. They didn't really even try to alter it, or just use it as an inspirational starting point to what they wanted the room to look like. Instead they copied it almost eye to eye, the only small alterations that did occur was due to practicality in order to actually build it.
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