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The Net
🕑 Added 2020-10-01 17:29:51 +0000 UTCSandrapalooza concludes with the late Carl Reiner's favorite "comeuppance" techno-thriller "The Net" (1995). We talk the film's debt to classic Hitchcock works, the dire predictions of the modern surveillance state, and the perils of acting while typing.
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Sølvi
My favourite detail from her office space is the inclusion of a Civilisation 2 box. I feel like that's a small bit of world building that really fits with the character and makes her feel that much more fleshed out.
Jesper Ohlsson
The thing about using macintosh-computers in this film is probably purely because macs - from their popular inception and up to fairly recently - were the de facto computer to use in "media creation" (movies, magazine-layout, photo-editing, etc). It's hard to remember, but there definitely used to be a very hard separation (in both human-culture and computer-culture) where if you did any kind of art on a professional level, you had to use macs (the only other similar situation I can think of is how amigas became really big in music production in europe, for a minute). My point is that Sandra's use of a mac in this movie was probably not a sly signifier about whatever, as much as it was a convenience of production ("everyone I know in Hollywood uses a mac"). "Proper windows" almost never shows up in 90's movies, which is a fun thing to think about (Linux probably gets more of a "shout-out" via Jurassic Park). In modern times I think audiences have become so indifferent to OS/computer-brands on film (as signifiers of whatever) that you can fully get away with using barely-ok-looking clones of yahoo or google-search in your movie without having that scene be ridiculed/memed.
