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I took the kittums up to the roof for the first time this year. I'd post pictures of that, but wouldn't you just rather see my cat Photoshopped into a socialist realist painting? Yeah, I thought so too.

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Heh.

Today's game, following up on a comment exchange with [livejournal.com profile] cpxbrex in my last post, is to name as many movies as you can that end with hackers hijacking the airwaves to broadcast The Truth What Will Lead to Revolution. I'll get you started *SPOILER WARNING*: They Live!, Serenity, V for Vendetta, and This Revolution.

And why is this such a common fictional fantasy?

Go!
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Date: 2007-04-30 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 5-miles.livejournal.com
all I can think of is antitrust (yes I saw it, no I'm not ashamed). and hackers, I think, I can't exactly remember. But you'd think that is the way hackers would end, wouldn't you?

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Date: 2007-04-30 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apperception.livejournal.com
Equilibrium (kinda)

Pump Up The Volume (sorta)

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Date: 2007-04-30 02:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] writer-grrrrl.livejournal.com
That photo just totally made my day.

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ooh! pretty kitty!

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And why is this such a common fictional fantasy?

Date: 2007-04-30 02:56 pm (UTC)
ext_65558: The one true path (Darkside cookies)
From: [identity profile] dubaiwalla.livejournal.com
Because The Truth Is Out There and it's been kept hidden from us by an evil conspiracy launched by powerful figures, and They don't want us to know that the Mossad planned 9/11, and the Freemasons are the ones who actually control the world, and...

Date: 2007-04-30 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] florence-craye.livejournal.com
I don't know of any movies like that, but your photoshop is too perfect!

Date: 2007-04-30 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gillen.livejournal.com
Through tempests the bright rays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where Mr. Twiddles did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the kittens,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gordonzola.livejournal.com
And why is this such a common fictional fantasy?

because it's easy and quick. The idea that revolutuionary consciousness can come unmediated from someone speaking TRUTH is not a new concept and certainly easier to show than endless political meetings and organization. Plus movie makers and writers like to overinflate the value of media. It's undeerstandable. I overestimate the value of cheese.

There are other theoretical precedents, but the idea of the rapture-like, non-bolshevik, final general strike against evil comes to us radicals via the Yippies who admired the IWW who took it from Georges Sorel. Somewhere along the way it lost the concept that the working class needed to organize itself to be ready for that moment instead of assuming (as those movies do) that people will just instinctively, you know, know what to do.

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoocu-shoocu.livejournal.com
Doesn't exactly fit, but Pump Up the Volume with its pirate radio theme is similar.

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apperception.livejournal.com
I like how stately Marinetti appears.

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] springheel-jack.livejournal.com
"V" and "The Running Man."

Date: 2007-04-30 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] springheel-jack.livejournal.com
Oh, and "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fishielon.livejournal.com
hehe, love your cat on the flag!

Here is something similar, of some sorts. Russian music video "Capital". Pictures speak of themselves, but the song goes along this like:

"In my left hand I've got "Snickers" in my right one - "Mars"
My PR manager, Karl Marx"

Happy 1st of May!

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Date: 2007-04-30 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenlight.livejournal.com
I can't think of any more movies.
BUT!
You are my fucking hero! That image is the best image ever in the history of the world!

Date: 2007-04-30 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com
Johnny Mnemonic. You didn't say they had to be good movies.
My friend had a Siamese once we called "Mao, the Great Helmscat".

Date: 2007-04-30 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hopita.livejournal.com
It's not exactly taking over the airwaves = revolution, but Jimmy Stewart did the whole I'm-gonna-keep-talking-until-someboday-FINALLY-listens thing in both Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and 12 Angry Men.

I'll have to ponder the taking over the airwaves thing, because I know I know some others.

Date: 2007-04-30 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hopita.livejournal.com
Crap. That was Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, wasn't it?

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Date: 2007-04-30 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nom-de-grr.livejournal.com
The Arrival. And Animal Farm, sort of, if you count a window as a television stand-in.

I had a cat named Chairman Meow. I thought I was being soooo original, too.

Date: 2007-04-30 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lopukhov.livejournal.com
OMG Marinetti XD!!!!

Date: 2007-04-30 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhfurnish.livejournal.com
Fuzzy pet! Baby cat! I love that picture!

I'm stealing it!


That's background material, comrade!

Date: 2007-04-30 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistersmearcase.livejournal.com
I feel like Network is prototypically related. It's not the ending, and it doesn't lead to revolution, but he goes on tv and gets everyone to lean out their windows and yell "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Date: 2007-04-30 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpxbrex.livejournal.com
My feelings, before I go read through any of the other posts about this, is that it satisfies certain narrative and political goals in the movie format.

The narrative satisfaction is that it's a very traditional narrative. It's about the lone hero who finds the truth and brings it to the masses -- it's functionally a bunch of aristocratic tripe, the hero making the passage into the other world and back, carrying with them a mystical secret. It's very Campbellian, and thus it is easy and resonates with a lot of people.

Secondly, it satisfies people politically. The AUDIENCE is allowed to feel that the problem is just that they don't have the proper information, that what prevents "them" from "doing the right thing" is that some superhero hasn't come along and spoon-fed them the truth. It enables them to lull themselves into feeling that they're not responsible for understanding the world around them -- they are never the problem, after all.

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Date: 2007-04-30 08:51 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-04-30 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fun-drive.livejournal.com
yes, I did want to see your cat Photoshopped into a socialist realist painting.

That is such a common fictional fantasy because of Judaism, Christianity and Marxism.

Date: 2007-04-30 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jvmatucha.livejournal.com
That kitty pic made my day!

:D

Date: 2007-04-30 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] troubleinchina.livejournal.com
For some reason my brain says there was a scene like that in one of the X-Men movies.

But my brain may be making that up.

I always figured the scene appeals so much because everyone (myself included) feels foolishly that if they could only make people listen - make them listen and hear and not interrupt - they would be called over to the other side. They would understand the truth and realise it, and accept it.

I'm so cute when I'm wrong.

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Date: 2007-05-01 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] esizzle.livejournal.com
hahaha Marinetti looks awesome. That is mad photoshopping skillz!

I think the common fictional fantasy is Democracy! One who believes they live in a democratic society should believe that if everyone knew something wrong was happening, that would be the end of it.

Date: 2007-05-01 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanmonster.livejournal.com
I'm resisting to urge to macro such a stately pic.

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