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* [[Shock Treatment]] is a strange 1981 film and equal to [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] dealing with an everyday man being put through televised therapy and his girlfriend going fame-mad after appearing on it. While there's something of a game show feel to the whole thing, it is otherwise a freakishly close to home prediction of reality TV. |
* [[Shock Treatment]] is a strange 1981 film and equal to [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] dealing with an everyday man being put through televised therapy and his girlfriend going fame-mad after appearing on it. While there's something of a game show feel to the whole thing, it is otherwise a freakishly close to home prediction of reality TV. |
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* The ubiquitous cell phones in ''[[Clueless]]'' were meant to show how spoiled and wealthy the teenage characters were. Nowadays, people are more likely to be weirded out by the phones' size and outdated design rather than their presence. |
* The ubiquitous cell phones in ''[[Clueless]]'' were meant to show how spoiled and wealthy the teenage characters were. Nowadays, people are more likely to be weirded out by the phones' size and outdated design rather than their presence. |
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* ''[[Heathers]]'' got made in the first place only because the idea of outcast high schoolers killing each other was considered patently absurd. Post-[[ |
* ''[[Heathers]]'' got made in the first place only because the idea of outcast high schoolers killing each other was considered patently absurd. Post-[[Columbine]], the movie turns into one giant [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], and nearly veers into [[Dude, Not Funny]]. |
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* The film ''[[Network]]'', which revolves around the exploitation of a mentally unstable newscaster by a TV network for ratings, reveled in over-the-top satire with events that would have been viewed as far-fetched back in the 1970s. Fast forward to the 21st century, where [[Reality TV]] shows [[Point and Laugh Show|ridicule and shame]] their contestants for sensational TV, and [[24-Hour News Networks]] have commentators ranting about the state of the world and what's wrong with it, and ''Network'' comes off as far less outrageous. Even the darkly comedic ending, which has the network executives {{spoiler|deciding to kill off the madman because the ratings for his TV show are dropping, and making his killers the stars of one of the network's reality shows in order to boost that show's [[Ratings]]}}, seems scarily plausible. Just look up what happened to R. Budd Dwyer. |
* The film ''[[Network]]'', which revolves around the exploitation of a mentally unstable newscaster by a TV network for ratings, reveled in over-the-top satire with events that would have been viewed as far-fetched back in the 1970s. Fast forward to the 21st century, where [[Reality TV]] shows [[Point and Laugh Show|ridicule and shame]] their contestants for sensational TV, and [[24-Hour News Networks]] have commentators ranting about the state of the world and what's wrong with it, and ''Network'' comes off as far less outrageous. Even the darkly comedic ending, which has the network executives {{spoiler|deciding to kill off the madman because the ratings for his TV show are dropping, and making his killers the stars of one of the network's reality shows in order to boost that show's [[Ratings]]}}, seems scarily plausible. Just look up what happened to R. Budd Dwyer. |
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** In an early 2000s interview, Sidney Lumet steadfastly maintained that ''Network'' had never been intended as a satire, claiming that it was "sheer reportage", drawn from his and Paddy Chayefsky's shared experiences working in television. Apparently such shenanigans had been going on for decades, with the general public only now starting to get a good look at them. Lumet concluded the segment saying "the only thing that hasn't happened is we've never seen {{spoiler|[[Blood Sport|anyone killed]] [[Condemned Contestant|for ratings]]}}." |
** In an early 2000s interview, Sidney Lumet steadfastly maintained that ''Network'' had never been intended as a satire, claiming that it was "sheer reportage", drawn from his and Paddy Chayefsky's shared experiences working in television. Apparently such shenanigans had been going on for decades, with the general public only now starting to get a good look at them. Lumet concluded the segment saying "the only thing that hasn't happened is we've never seen {{spoiler|[[Blood Sport|anyone killed]] [[Condemned Contestant|for ratings]]}}." |
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