{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-10T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-08-10T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T19:01:45","slug":"pop-culture-reflects-the-transmitted-fears-of-our-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/08\/10\/pop-culture-reflects-the-transmitted-fears-of-our-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Reflects the transmitted fears of our culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004452\"><\/a>Keeping in mind the rule, I think from Issac Asimov, that there are only seven plots going on &#8212; period &#8212; I will now point out that two movies with much hype to them coming out have pretty much the same premise.  Oliver Stone&#8217;s 9\/11 and the retro-b high concept for the sake of high concept thriller Snakes on A Plane.<\/p>\n<p>I will also point out, on this day when a terrorist attack was said to have been thwarted and you can not bring liquid onto a plane, that whether conciously or subconciously, this is not an accident.  Any where along the lines did the makers of 9\/11 in their board meetings pitch that &#8220;This will capture the post &#8211; 9\/11 Zeitgist and blah de blah?&#8221;  I have no way of knowing.<\/p>\n<p>What you learn really quickly from hearing mash-ups is that songs are pretty much the same in the realm of pop music.  You can post a Beach Boys song over a Nirvana song with very little tweaking and come out humming.  I imagine that the same is the case with these two movies: move dialouge from one movie to the other and it&#8217;ll come out, maybe a bit jarring, but not too far off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping in mind the rule, I think from Issac Asimov, that there are only seven plots going on &#8212; period &#8212; I will now point out that two movies with much hype to them coming out have pretty much the same premise. Oliver Stone&#8217;s 9\/11 and the retro-b high concept for the sake of high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}