![]() ![]() Socrates thought literacy would corrupt the education system and was bastardization of the art of oral speech. Are technical tools good for us? Or is the employment of technology akin to playing with a dark magic wrought with unintended consequences? Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela Childs in Kimi, a thriller about the horrors of an Alexa-like technology.īefore the birth of Christ and the start of the common era, Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo was setting off the alarm bells about the new technology of a visual alphabet and the written word. CAM (2018) is an internet horror movie about a camgirl released by Netflix.Īlthough internet horror movies feel new, the underlying narrative structure taps into timeless concerns about humanity’s uneasy relationship with technology. ![]() So cinema is a new art form, but movies about the internet are a radically new cultural artifact. In the year 2000, Hollywood wasn’t even a century old!? The first website launched in August 6, 1991. Sounds pretty good.The world is about five billion years old. Elsewhere in the same interview, he said that a "perfect day" for him would involve getting up late, watching the news, playing a video game, watching basketball, and going to bed. It sounds like even if he's not directing, Carpenter will be front and center as a fan for both the upcoming game, and whatever film adaptation may or may not be cooking. But there’s a new version of the 'Dead Space' video game coming out in January, and I’m there." So until someone asks me, I wouldn’t do it. I think they already have another director involved. That just went around, and everybody said, 'Oh, when are you gonna do it?' I’m not gonna do it. "I was down looking at the new digital cameras, the RED, and happened to mention to them that I would love to do a 'Dead Space' film. ![]() "I’m a big video game fan, so I played all the games," Carpenter said. In response, Carpenter backpedaled pretty significantly on the idea that he might be involved, but at the end let slip that "another director" was involved.implying such a thing exists in the first place. In an interview with Variety, the publication nudged Carpenter on his past remarks about wanting to make a Dead Space film. ![]()
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