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I've always wondered if Steve was inspired by the movie "Network": "We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! Bu
by arctangent 15y ago
I've always wondered if Steve was inspired by the movie "Network":
"We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF..."
I highly recommend it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)
- JonnieCache 15y agoThe second episode of Charlie Brooker's current Black Mirror series of scifi dramas contains elements of Network, but set in a future dystopia where people sort of live inside an ipad that's stuck running farmville. It's a lot better than I've just made it sound. In fact, it's incredible, and terrifying. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Black_Mirror_... Also highly recommended. To be honest the whole thing should be at the top of HN, but I doubt it would get upvoted. Maybe we need a summarising blog post...
- WickyNilliams 15y agoI watched this last night, really good viewing. Especially poignant was the ending where the protagonist traded in his morals for a comfortable life and fame. It evoked feelings of disappointment that he was so cheaply bought off, the same kind of disappointment i felt at the end of 1984 when Winston was re-educated. In some ways it was a case of reductio ad absurdum, but the more you look how popular culture is evolving the more it seems like a logical, yet depressing, conclusion - people's constant pre-occupation with celebrity culture and seeking fame even if it means selling themselves cheaply. I also enjoyed how it captured how people like Simon Cowell are exploitative and manipulative when it comes to shows like the X factor, it's audience and it's contestants. The big irony was that i watched it online, meaning the show was interspersed with adverts which i could not skip. Made me laugh, i expect Charlie Brooker foresaw this as to further solidify his vision
- bmelton 15y agoI know this isn't a movie forum, but typically, when discussing movies, one doesn't start off with a spoiler of the ending. Thanks a ton. :-\
- WickyNilliams 15y agoOops! It's not really a twist or anything, but yeah that was a bit of a faux pas. Pardon my stupidity!
- rufibarbatus 15y agoAnd here's Aaron Sorkin's first attempt at a hommage to The Network (his second attempt being, of course, The Social Network): http://youtu.be/5zyOhZsvIzI http://youtu.be/5zyOhZsvIzI (warning: lots of cursing).