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I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a
by david927 3mo ago
I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a running gag throughout the film. Now I wonder how prescient that would be.
- rkuykendall-com 3mo agoThis was a theme in early Futurama (before it just became another Simpsons). A great example from the pilot is the Star Trek doors that keep closing on Fry.
- rf15 3mo agoThe Film Brazil, but the environment is designed by Apple.
- david927 3mo agoYeah, something like that but more utopian and closer to Jacques Tati's Playtime. And I think that's what would make it funny: the affordance of the efficiency in design creating that expectation of a correctness in delivery which is slightly subverted.
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- dethos 3mo agoThat would be a nice one.