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I don’t know if they were tacked on, exactly, but they seemed to be the purpose rather than a tool. If you showed the NYC skyline in 2003, you’d have to go out

I don’t know if they were tacked on, exactly, but they seemed to be the purpose rather than a tool. If you showed the NYC skyline in 2003, you’d have to go out of your way to show the Twin Towers. Edward Norton saying how “pando” changed things, on the other hand, is going out of your way in the opposite direction. I feel like the early-00s equivalent of this movie would be the CGI dancing baby on Ally McBeal (“justified” by the character’s ticking biological clock), except almost every scene would have one such meme or topical reference.

HWR_14 4y ago
The majority of skyline shots are stock images. In 2003 it was a choice for which you showed. Were they obviously added because they were recent things and not timeless, yes. But I don't see how ignoring recent events would have been good either. Instead, if you're trying to write how out of touch tech billionaires are to the current world, you have to show the current world. How do you even have a character like Duke divorced from the current environment?