Originally Posted by JohnFlawbod:
“My Imaginary German friend cited "The Running Man" some days ago...not so unlikely and it was a movie/story way ahead of its time
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“My Imaginary German friend cited "The Running Man" some days ago...not so unlikely and it was a movie/story way ahead of its time
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Yes, there's also "Rollerball", and that old black and white TV drama from the early seventies/Late sixties too.
I made the same reference in an old Big Brother thread. You might like to have a look....
Link:
Big Brother/The Running Man - Damon Killian quotes
Quote:
“Damon Killian quotes:
"This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it's to do with ratings! For fifty years, we've told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear... for Christ's sake, Ben, don't you understand? Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game shows, they love wrestling, they love sports and violence. So what do we do? We give 'em *what they want*! We're number one, Ben, that's all that counts, believe me. I've been in the business for thirty years"
"Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division"
"It's all part of life's rich pattern, Brenda, and you better f**king get used to it."
"Yes, I know a stalker died! It had to happen sooner or later!"
"Who loves you and who do you love!"
"I want a kiss, now, a big kiss, but remember... no tongues"
"It's time to start running!"”
“Damon Killian quotes:
"This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it's to do with ratings! For fifty years, we've told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear... for Christ's sake, Ben, don't you understand? Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game shows, they love wrestling, they love sports and violence. So what do we do? We give 'em *what they want*! We're number one, Ben, that's all that counts, believe me. I've been in the business for thirty years"
"Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division"
"It's all part of life's rich pattern, Brenda, and you better f**king get used to it."
"Yes, I know a stalker died! It had to happen sooner or later!"
"Who loves you and who do you love!"
"I want a kiss, now, a big kiss, but remember... no tongues"
"It's time to start running!"”
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“....Yes, and it didn't just focus on the similar style of presentation to what we have with BB,..a lot of the film focused on the idea of distorting a sequence of events as they happened to present a half-reality, and more or less brainwashing the viewers to accept everything they witnessed as true.
There were one or two scenes in the film in the editing suite showing them deliberately messing around with the truth.
Even to the point of making out that the ex-contestants have had their dreams fulfilled, and the show gave them life-changing experiences.
The reality was that they did indeed experience life changing experiences, their lives changed from being alive, to being dead.
The nearest equivalent to that today is that reality TV invites contestants in by the lure of the lifestyle of the neo-celebrity that a lot of people aspire to, and is their dream.
There was a scene in the Running Man, where they actually went from being very creative with the edits, to creating brand new ones that didn't even occur in reality.
...Do you remember that scene in the Running Man where they grabbed a 3D scan of Arnie's head, and mapped it onto the video of a man being brutally slain by one of the show's "stalkers"?
Well technology has now reached a point where they can do that for real now.
There was a news item on a BBC3 show about history, and it showed the process of recreating scenes with real actors, and using scans from photos of people such as Hitler and Churchill, to generate what were generally believed to be real incidents that might have happened (or did happen).
The heads of Churchill and Hitler were composited over the top of the processed video.
And the results looked entirely realistic.
This was a big leap forward in the technology of creating realistic synthespians.
The results were so stunningly realistic that the BBC3 history show itself opened up a few debates asking how can we trust what we see on television in the future. Although the history show tried to use the technology with integrity, and made efforts to consult respected historians, people were asking what happens when other TV producers are less scrupulous and decide to abuse the technology.
Of course the technology isn't quite capable of allowing people to use it at the same speed and efficiency with how it was exploited in The Running Man just yet,...but it shows that it can be done.”
“....Yes, and it didn't just focus on the similar style of presentation to what we have with BB,..a lot of the film focused on the idea of distorting a sequence of events as they happened to present a half-reality, and more or less brainwashing the viewers to accept everything they witnessed as true.
There were one or two scenes in the film in the editing suite showing them deliberately messing around with the truth.
Even to the point of making out that the ex-contestants have had their dreams fulfilled, and the show gave them life-changing experiences.
The reality was that they did indeed experience life changing experiences, their lives changed from being alive, to being dead.
The nearest equivalent to that today is that reality TV invites contestants in by the lure of the lifestyle of the neo-celebrity that a lot of people aspire to, and is their dream.
There was a scene in the Running Man, where they actually went from being very creative with the edits, to creating brand new ones that didn't even occur in reality.
...Do you remember that scene in the Running Man where they grabbed a 3D scan of Arnie's head, and mapped it onto the video of a man being brutally slain by one of the show's "stalkers"?
Well technology has now reached a point where they can do that for real now.
There was a news item on a BBC3 show about history, and it showed the process of recreating scenes with real actors, and using scans from photos of people such as Hitler and Churchill, to generate what were generally believed to be real incidents that might have happened (or did happen).
The heads of Churchill and Hitler were composited over the top of the processed video.
And the results looked entirely realistic.
This was a big leap forward in the technology of creating realistic synthespians.
The results were so stunningly realistic that the BBC3 history show itself opened up a few debates asking how can we trust what we see on television in the future. Although the history show tried to use the technology with integrity, and made efforts to consult respected historians, people were asking what happens when other TV producers are less scrupulous and decide to abuse the technology.
Of course the technology isn't quite capable of allowing people to use it at the same speed and efficiency with how it was exploited in The Running Man just yet,...but it shows that it can be done.”
I've just re-checked and the first mention of Bad Wolf is definitely at 8.00 after Episode 3. Either that or the search function is playing up again 
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