{"id":15,"date":"2007-07-18T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/no-it-isnt-its-just-loud\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T21:40:06","slug":"no-it-isnt-its-just-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/no-it-isnt-its-just-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"No, it isn’t. It’s just loud."},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a very interesting article<\/a> in The Economist <\/a>about the effect of digital technology on the motion picture industry, at the distribution\/exhibition end, rather than the more commonly discussed production end.\u00a0 It is well worth a read, but I suspect you will agree that the author has obviously tried too hard in his opening paragraph to articulate a broadly meaningful<\/em> thesis:<\/p>\n

THERE is a scene in \u201cTransformers\u201d, a blockbuster that came out last week, in which a mobile phone turns into a homicidal robot. In its astonishingly loud way, the film is a meditation on the dangers posed by advanced technology<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Transformers<\/a>?\u00a0 The two hour and twenty-three minute montage of stuff getting blowed up by homicidal robots?\u00a0 A “meditation” on anything?\u00a0 Puh-lease.\u00a0 This like suggesting that “King Ralph<\/a>” is a “Swiftian satire about the democratization of the monarchy”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many lessons can perhaps be learned here, chief among them being “Don’t rely on magazines about economics to provide you with insightful film criticism.”\u00a0 I rather suspect that the thesis in question is a poorly-veiled and badly executed attempt to rationalize, for an inquisitive editor, why the author was apparently busy attending a screening of this summer’s big-budget\u00a0blockbuster rather than churning out 1000 words on the Chinese widget industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a very interesting article in The Economist about the effect of digital technology on the motion picture industry, at the distribution\/exhibition end, rather than the more commonly discussed production end. It is well worth a read, but I suspect you will agree that the author has obviously tried too hard in his opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}