[Air-l] Technology in Hollywood

[Aryne Blumklotz]

Don't forget about the scene in Pretty Woman where Richard Gere takes
Julia Roberts shopping and he uses his cell phone to make phone calls
from the store. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bunz, Ulla K [SMTP:ulla at ukans.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:32 AM
> To:	'air-l at aoir.org'
> Subject:	[Air-l] Technology in Hollywood
> 
> Later this semester, I'm planning on doing a "Technology in Hollywood"
> movie
> session with my students in "Communication and New Technology." The
> purpose
> is to show how popular movies have integrated technology into the
> everyday
> lives of the movie characters - technology that maybe we have become
> accustomed to, but that was brand new (and ultimately cool) only two,
> five,
> or ten years ago.  
> 
> I am *not* planning on showing a whole movie. Instead, I will show
> multiple
> short scenes, followed by in-class discussion. I have collected a few
> examples (see below), and am looking for more. Can you help? I do not
> want
> to include James Bond like movies, or science fiction/special effects
> type
> movies. I don't want to show what someone has dreamt up as technology
> possibly being able to do in some obscure scenario. I want to show
> "real"
> scenes with everyday technology. Also, the movies don't have to be
> Hollywood
> movies, but they should be fairly familiar to US undergraduates,
> because
> their understanding will be greater that way.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions directly to ulla at ku.edu. I will post a summary
> to the
> entire list.
> ulla
> 
> Examples:
> - "Office Space" - any of the fax machine scenes; the dramatic set-up
> of
> installing a virus on a computer, which actually only consists of
> copying a
> file from a floppy disk
> - "Pretty Woman" - the very brief scene when Julia Roberts goes
> shopping in
> Beverly Hills and a father and son drive by in a car, holding big fat
> cell
> phones, and being very proud of them
> - "Bowfinger" - the scene where Steve Martin is trying to impress
> someone,
> and since he doesn't own a cell phone, he just ripped off a regular
> phone,
> and while he pretends to talk on it, the cord dangles in the air
> - "Topsy Turvey" - the scene where the phone is introduced as a new
> technology, and people scream into the receivers to hear each other,
> upon
> which an elderly gentleman remarks one might as well just open the
> window
> and scream out of that
> - "Jumping Jack Flash" - one of the scenes in which Whoopi Goldberg
> "chats"
> on her computer (with blue and red underlain lines) with the
> supposedly lost
> spy Peter
>  
> 
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