On Tuesday 13 July 2004 07:21 am, nathan wrote: > The movie Duplex as well. With Ben Stiller and Drew Berrymore.. Ben has a > Pismo that gets burned in a fire then run over by a truck. Drew had a 15 > titiaum powerbook. As well as G4's and 23' cinema displays at her ad firm. > > But one that I've never understood is the classic of Office Space.. Where > the main guy uses a Umax desktop the shows OS 8.? But when shut down goes > to a glowing yellow c:\ As well as the 85/9500 that is used to copy the so > called virus program from. .The monitor that the system is plugged into > shows windows.... Hmmmm ( I know.. Don't berate me geekness to terrible > much..)
It's more complex than that. It seems to me like Mike Judge, who was a Computer Assisted Drafter at an architectural firm before he chucked it in favor of his hobby of making animated movies, had a specific plan in mind when he specified the "OS" of the Initech computers. Usually, when you see a computer in action in a movie, it's running a pre-designed presentation that is as scripted as the dialogue. Nobody wants to redo a take because the computer a character is using freezes or crashes and is not meant to do so in the script. It seems as if Judge wanted to come up with a system that would be instantly recognizable to both Mac-heads and Windows users. If you look very carefully at the shelves, the software manuals you see are from long-dead programs like DBase III and Multiplan and WordStar, which is quite amusing in itself. BTW: usually those presentations for movies are designed, built and run on Macs. Even those that are supposed to look like Windows. -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
