Comments on: Didja ever notice – “prescience” – in film?

By: cso

cso — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:09:58 +0000

Hmmmn . . the Conversation w/ Gene Hackman. It is so disturbing with it left unresolved in the end and Gene sitting in his destroyed apartment . . . shadow conspiracy (shiver,shiver). It doesn't necessary predate Watergate but does foreshadow the age of continuous surveillance.

By: ariel

ariel — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:46:33 +0000

The Parallax View. This glimpse of our shadow government, our corporate overlords, seemed outlandish in the mid-70s.

By: Nancy R.

Nancy R. — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:44:07 +0000

Well, I don't know about you but I think Orwell's book 1984 and the first film version of it in 1954 really predicted the way the corporate world would control its employees – spying on them, spreading mass media lies, using fear to turn people against each other. It's all happening now in a more subtle, nobody's talking about it way. I don't think Orwell realized how much people would rather go shopping or indulge their materialistic fantasies than value their own personal freedom. Or that nobodies like Paris Hilton would be created periodically to distract the masses from real problems and issues affecting their lives. And in most ways the 1976 version of KING KONG was a creepy symbolic foreshadowing of the attack on the World Trade Center.

By: MikeJ

MikeJ — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:12:44 +0000

Not a movie, but this guy in a physics lab in Switzerland envisioned this system in which you could actually embed links to other content.Imagine a future where your post about movies "linked", as the kids say, to some sort of database full of more detailed information about those movies. Back to your point, "The" rel="nofollow">http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=68197">"The Battle of Algiers" certainly seems prescient now. Red Dawn, cheesy as it is, shows what happens when a superpower attempts to fight a home grown insurgency. Heck for that matter, so does Gibson's "the Patriot". (Only one link used to see if links will be stripped.)