Hackers feat. Gus Lanzetta
Added 2024-09-30 07:23:09 +0000 UTCTwitter-banished Brazilian Gus Lanzetta makes a long-awaited and triumphant return to discuss Iain Softley's sexy, stylish Hackers. Impressively researched and committed to creating a dazzling, expressionistic visual style to evoke the sensations of exploring the uncharted corners of the world wide web, the film is both an ode to the young, brilliant minds at the forefrunt of cyberspace and an anthropological time capsule of a subcutlure that would aesthetically inform the way the burgeoning landscape of the internet and its denizens were depicted on film throughout the rest of the decade and beyond.
We discuss the film's impressive layers of authenticity, as elicited by screenwriter Rafael Moreu alongside real-life hacker consultants (including then-teenager Nicholas Jarecki, who would later become a filmmaker himself). Then, we discuss Hollywood's attempts to visualize the unconquered, uncharted landscape of the fledgling internet, and how the film paints its protagonists as intrepid trailblazers in the same spirit as classic character motifs from the American western. Finally, we discuss the noteworthy landmark design of the film, from its production and sets, to its immaculate fashion, and its pitch-perfect, multi-volume soundtracks of contemporary electronic music.
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.
Comments
Meh, never seen it
TatsuMaki
2024-10-01 00:29:06 +0000 UTCLaurence Mason also played Tin Tin in The Crow a year prior.
Dark Alliance
2024-09-30 23:46:16 +0000 UTCAlso, Nikon was just a HUGE influence on me as a kid at that time. There were very few alt Black kids at the time. GOD, I love this film…
TatsuMaki
2024-09-30 22:07:21 +0000 UTCThis movie fucking sucks. It’s also one of my favorite movies of ALL time. Literally. I was 10 when i saw this and it was my shit. It had a HUGE impact on my style and budding hipsterdom. I saw style and fashion and people you just didn’t see in my little part of Harlem. This movie and Malcom X probably had the biggest media impact on my life. It’s the reason I had gay friends and wasn’t “disgusted” by them like a lot of 90s kids were. It’s the reason I could be in spots hostile to them and stick up for them. It’s the reason for my feminism. It’s why I fucking love, and hate, computers. It’s why I used to skate. This movie probably is why I’m an unabashed leftist, today. This movie fucking RULES.
TatsuMaki
2024-09-30 21:48:34 +0000 UTC
