Rollerball warned you
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My prediction is that the future racing toward us will be a mash-up of "Rollerball" and "Soylent Green."
Rollerball is people! Rollerball! Is! People!
Problem is that Rollerball hasn’t stayed in the public consciousness in the way that Bladerunner or Alien have. Our generation probably knows it but not the young’uns, eh?
I do now!
Well that godawful remake with Chris Klein in James Caan’s role didn’t help its legacy.
While i was in the Army i didn't play football but i played the fuck out of some rugby. This is also one of my favorite movies to play with my friends. Many injuries.😂
the irony that very often science fiction-related entertainment is seen as ¨childish¨ whilst the most mainstream forms of entertainment considered ¨for adults¨ basically consist on teams of grown ass men playing with balls🙃
I think Rollerball is made for the "boys to men" audience. It would be overwhelmed by real combat sports if released today.
At last recognition of how intelligent this movie was .!!
When I first saw this movie I recognised the interesting themes behind the film while others considered it disposable violent garbage.
Well done remembering and reminding people of its importance and prophetic vision which is relevant today .
It looked like a stupid movie when I was a kid. $till does. Turns out it had an important theme.
Glad to see you back making videos! Hope you’re feeling better.
I still remember the first time i saw the movie on television. Remains intact after all theses years. Has a huge impact on my way of seeing things, even today.
Thank you for the great analysis.
And then there's Kropotkin's idea of liberty through what he called "Mutual Aid," a vision that Iain M Banks really ran with in his amazing novels. Although I don't expect that our corporate entertainment overlords are going to be in a huge hurry to create a film version any time soon...
Don't know why it's taken me so long to find your channel but I am glad I have. Great essay on this movie that has stuck with me all my life. I saw this in a movie theater as a double feature with Sissy Spacek's CARRIE as a kid all those years ago. Now I need to start watching the rest of your videos.
Masterpiece of analysis. This movie really impacted me when I saw it on tv in the 80s. The raw violence for the sake of violence, as a sport for the masses! Brilliant
My memory of the film is the the trip to Switzerland.One more thing the 2000AD strips Mean Arena and Harlem Heroes.
My question is was that style of futuristic typeface something this movie introduced or was that already something in the zeitgeist at that time?
Zeitgeist. These are variations on early computer fonts, which had a low pixel count so needed extreme emphasis to be readable.
I don’t think it was pixel count but instead had to do with machine readability of the characters.@@DamienWalter
luxury destroys you phisically and mentally, is decadence. is not bad to enjoy it now and then, but if you live in it, you lose your edge, and you disconnect from reality, and stop caring about it.
Thinking about it now, I think that Jonathon E's feeling of lack of freedom derives less from the loss of his wife but that losing his wife showed him that, while he has been showered with gifts, privileges and honors, he is actually a low status male. In the world of Rollerball status is demonstrated by the, let's say quality, of the woman that a man possesses and that he is able to maintain possession of said woman. Since Jonathon doesn't actually possess a woman, they are only loaned to him*, he is not the alpha male that he imagined himself to be. He internalizes this realization as a lack of freedom of everybody in general since he is unable to accept the fact of his true status.
*Similar, in a way, to how female slaves were parceled out to the gladiator trainees in the film "Spartacus" (1960).
Yes. Good reading. That's his deep motivation.
Brilliant!
Holy shit! I finally get the Justice song “new lands” music video reference.
Not even one minute
American football is true human soul
Rugby 🏉 is a lot like Football 🏈-I’d argue football is a superior sport.
for girls
Today’s standards? We have no standards today.
Yeah, the corporatocracy very well exposed. The show society being explained under ultra capitalism and social instrumentalis for getting more profits.
As an American that grew up racing motocross and played rugby in high school, let me tell you, the NFL is dying. Most all mainstream sport leagues are dying in America. In my mind, the leagues today are operated like the game in Rollerball.