[Air-l] Technology in Hollywood

[John White]

1) You've got Mail!  Pick a scene...
2) Rush Hour.  Use of cell phone by Carter several times.  Contrast to
how a cop used to get information by radio.
3) Sesame Street.  If you can use a TV show, you can catch technology
being used almost every episode.

Just a few off the top of my head.

--JW



Aryne Blumklotz wrote:

> 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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