GOOD OLD HOLLYWOOD!Just for fun…
Well, most of you know I am a movie fanatic.. if I have not seen all the movies on regular circuit AS well as the independent theatres, my life's equilibrium and chi just doesn’t feel balanced!
So to that end, I was in deep thought today pondering on this world of movies and how we always comment that “its not realistic” yet why would we go watch a movie for realism?? How boring would that be? People will watch an action movie and see some of the scenes and say “that’s not realistic”, but yet go watch a movie about hobits and dragons and say “awesome!”
fickle! fickle! teehee
So, in that vein.. I have found a few things interesting in this hi-tech 21st century we live in about movies and computers:
The movies have lead me to believe that one day computers would be doing everything and man wouldn’t have to even move his finger…Yet here I am .. doing my own laundry! What’s up with that??
In the movies…
All you have to do to get secret information from a computer is log on – if it asks you for a password – you only need 3 tries and you will SURELY get it (trust me i have seen it done - no one has ever failed in the movies!) and then simply type "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard and Voila!!
Furthermore – even more disturbing is that Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds guaranteed.
When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.
Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to. Example: "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? I don't know, let's check. It's the murder weapon! Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes. no, just some comics
HA HA you gotta love Hollywood and the era we live in!
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Lex: It's a UNIX system! I know this!
[Lex, the 15 year old girl played by Arianna Richards, in Jurassic Park] Riiight.
Speaking of chi and crappy tech movies:
Ginger: You're not too good at this golf thing, are you, Stan?
Stanley: You're fucking up my chi.
[Swordfish]
Speaking of having writers get carried away in crappy tech movies:
You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?
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