Tuesday, August 2, 2011

SHERMAN MCCOY'S GPS: Joe Queenan muses on movie plots rendered impossible by the advent of modern technology.

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  1. Meghan7:09 PM

    If Ferris' parents had given him a cell phone, he never would have gotten away with it.  They'd have nailed him somewhere along the line.

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  2. Joseph J. Finn7:09 PM

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    Also, can I recommend that under appreciated Chris Evans movie Cellular?  A tight, smart thriller that managed for the time to find interesting plot points involving a kidnapping and phones.

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  3. Genevieve8:09 PM

    This reminds me that Ann Patchett is a bit of a Luddite and she set her latest book, State of Wonder, in a distant part of the Amazon jungle and had the main character lose her cell phone specifically because Patchett was worried about how technology would make all the problems in the book impossible.

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  4. Benner10:36 PM

    "The name of the rose."  just look up "laughter" and "semiotics" on wikipedia.  

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  5. This is one of my big arguments against the Footloose remake - with cable tv and highspeed internet, I have a hard time believing a community as isolated as the town was in the first movie. Not only would Willard have heard of Judas Priest, he'd be a fan of theirs on Facebook.

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