The 2010 film 'The Experiment' is a remake of the 2001 German film ‘Das experiment’ by Oliver Hirschbiegel; based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box, which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment of 1971.
Stanford prison experiment- The ‘Stanford prison experiment’ was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was held at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20 of 1971 led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo.
- It was funded by the US Office of Naval Research and was of interest to both the US Navy and Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners.
- Twenty-four male students were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a fake prison. The participants took on their roles well beyond Zimbardo's expectations, as the guards enforced punishments and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture.
- Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards, were willing to harass other prisoners who attempted to stop it. The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his role as the superintendent and in control of the guards, permitted the abuse to continue.
- Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. Some of the experiment was filmed and pieces of footage are publicly available.
Differences between Das Experiment 2001 and The Experiment 2010 are:
- Reasons behind guards power obsessions
- More people are killed in the original
- The researchers are captured in the original whereas the remake only shows them allowing the experiment to continue
- The final scene of the original is a news report whereas the remake ends with ‘no.77’ going to India.
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