{"id":763,"date":"2016-06-27T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2017-01-28T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:43:55","slug":"are-we-happy-and-effective-we-are-now-programmed-for-perfect-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/are-we-happy-and-effective-we-are-now-programmed-for-perfect-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we Happy and Effective? We are now programmed for perfect happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just run into the latter movie and immediately thought of one of my favorite movies, George&#8217;s THX 1138. George wins here big time because he doesn&#8217;t try too hard, you don&#8217;t have to try too hard when you are inventing a genre. Movies today do not hold back as they have the genre worked out already for them and all they have to do is fit the script with an appropriate visual.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original trailer and clips from George&#8217;s movie which i find superior in every respect:<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4hLXOVCZr-8\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5nmxHjPuvY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nA new attempt at the same themes &#8211; the movie is Equals (2015), with bigger smart screens but much less subtlety. A trailer ( can&#8217;t stand trailers to be honest but whatever ) and a clip:<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RTN3HnQV3c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/haLTb5Gv7T8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWhich reminds me to share with you my favorite sci-fi movie of recent &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvUpUU6owVc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are not fond of their grandiose schemes &#8211; you must admit the Wachowskis are a visual institution,\u00a0the Matrix started the 21st century culturally and put whatever was in their minds\u00a0&#8211; in the minds\u00a0of millions\u00a0of people. The blue and red pills, the streaky hallways, the bullet time &#8211; these grandmasters made the geeky\u00a0weird mainstream. If you have ever sat in front of a computer 16+ hours you must know that feeling &#8211;\u00a0my setup at Lucasfilm consisted of 3\u00a0computer screens and 3 televisions, 3 consoles, 2 computers and several other devices, including a Wacom tablet and various controllers. When I get off at the end heading to Chestnut street &#8211; I would see polygons and wireframe triangles everywhere, my brain would process and dismember all into visual components and put it back together in the next frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Just run into the latter movie and immediately thought of one of my favorite movies, George&#8217;s THX 1138. George wins here big time because he doesn&#8217;t try too hard, you don&#8217;t have to try too hard when you are inventing a genre. Movies today do not hold back as they have the genre worked out already for them and all&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/are-we-happy-and-effective-we-are-now-programmed-for-perfect-happiness\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,107,142,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-film","category-george-lucas","category-robots","category-sci-fi","post_format-post-format-video","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}