But I was wrong. I saw The Social Network over the weekend and it was a gripping story. What a cool story! The acting was superb and the way they mixed the narrative with the various lawsuits heightened the tension. After it was over, I changed my mind about technology based cinema. There must be many other stories from the computer world that we could enjoy on the big screen. Here are a few I think need telling on the big screen:
The Basic Garage: Bill Gates and his friends create the first mass-released computer language in his dad’s garage and begin a software revolution. Founding Microsoft makes Gates one of the wealthiest men in the world but he is still unable to get a decent haircut.
The Presentation: Software developers Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin have a real problem: they have a big presentation coming up but neither can do it. One has a stutter and the other, a paralysing fear of public speaking. How will they ever be able to be run a successful small business? The Solution: they develop a simple presentation tool called PowerPoint and sell it to Microsoft for $14 million. Then they become rock stars and travel the world, dating supermodels and snorting cocaine!
YouTube vs. YouPorn: On the verge of YouTube’s dominance of the video sharing marketplace, a porn addicted developer defects, taking the proprietary code with him. He starts a rival file sharing site dedicated to uploading pornography. A legal battle to shut him down ensues. Legions of Star Wars watching, basement dwelling nerds rally in support of YouPorn. Olivia Munn could make a passionate speech about the rights of the individual (while wearing a bikini). Finally the case is dropped when the judge won't risk the public backlash of eliminating free Internet porn and uses a $1 bill to prove the defendant is Kris Kringle.
Warcraft: An epic love story of two star-crossed fantasy characters whose fate is played out in the Warcraft Universe. Brave warrior Thallobane longs for Elf princess Whiluwhyne after she uses an "unlimited arrows" spell to save him from the Beast of Baroughmar. But evil sorcerer Gandowlane has cursed her with a...uhm, some sort of nerd charm. Anyway, Thallobane fights many battles, faces deamons, yadda yadda yadda. He defeats the sorcerer with Whiluwhyne’s aid and they are joined forever in the Forest of Madriarch. In the end the real players meet. In a twist, they have lived next door to each other the whole time! However, they are so weird and repulsive, a romance is doomed.
Smaller - The iPod Story: Engineers at Apple create the first iPod, then the iPod Nano, then the iPod Shuffle. The race to create smaller and smaller memory devices consumes them. Soon the miniaturization reaches the point where the limitations of their own tools prevent the creation of smaller devices. So they begin to make the tools smaller. Smaller iPods emerge. But it is not enough; they must shrink themselves! Soon they have created microscopic iPods as they themselves are reduced to a cellular level. But they cannot stop. The film ends as developers are working at the atomic level and can no longer communicate with mankind.
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4 comments:
you really said Warcraft? Ha. Love it!
Meowlissa: Yes, Warcraft.
I think you need to get working on some of those, pronto! Particularly the Warcraft one as that game is rife for abuse. Only the heroine, who dances lithely around wearing very few clothes, demonstrating master marksmanship and getting gentlemen to send her sexy messages of approval, is actually a tiny, overweight, 40 year old housewife with three chins and a Justin Bieber shrine in her attic and the hero, who has the user name "Mighty Apollo" and features huge, bulging biceps and bronzed abs, is actually a middle-aged guy named "Graham" who has a giant beer gut and lives in his mom's basement in Michigan and has nothing but Mountain Dew and Cheetohs in his closet.
There, I almost wrote it for you. :)
Veggie: I'll share the credit with you.
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