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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Bunz, Ulla K [SMTP:ulla@ukans.edu]</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:32 AM</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">'air-l@aoir.org'</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">[Air-l] Technology in Hollywood</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Later this semester, I'm planning on doing a "Technology in Hollywood" movie</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">session with my students in "Communication and New Technology." The purpose</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">is to show how popular movies have integrated technology into the everyday</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">lives of the movie characters - technology that maybe we have become</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">accustomed to, but that was brand new (and ultimately cool) only two, five,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">or ten years ago. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am *not* planning on showing a whole movie. Instead, I will show multiple</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">short scenes, followed by in-class discussion. I have collected a few</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">examples (see below), and am looking for more. Can you help? I do not want</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to include James Bond like movies, or science fiction/special effects type</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">movies. I don't want to show what someone has dreamt up as technology</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">possibly being able to do in some obscure scenario. I want to show "real"</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">scenes with everyday technology. Also, the movies don't have to be Hollywood</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">movies, but they should be fairly familiar to US undergraduates, because</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">their understanding will be greater that way.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for suggestions directly to ulla@ku.edu. I will post a summary to the</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">entire list.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ulla</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Examples:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- "Office Space" - any of the fax machine scenes; the dramatic set-up of</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">installing a virus on a computer, which actually only consists of copying a</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">file from a floppy disk</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- "Pretty Woman" - the very brief scene when Julia Roberts goes shopping in</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Beverly Hills and a father and son drive by in a car, holding big fat cell</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">phones, and being very proud of them</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- "Bowfinger" - the scene where Steve Martin is trying to impress someone,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and since he doesn't own a cell phone, he just ripped off a regular phone,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and while he pretends to talk on it, the cord dangles in the air</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- "Topsy Turvey" - the scene where the phone is introduced as a new</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">technology, and people scream into the receivers to hear each other, upon</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">which an elderly gentleman remarks one might as well just open the window</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and scream out of that</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- "Jumping Jack Flash" - one of the scenes in which Whoopi Goldberg "chats"</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">on her computer (with blue and red underlain lines) with the supposedly lost</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">spy Peter</FONT></SPAN>
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