[SKRIVA] Tidig bisarrocyber: "Computer Beach Party"
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:33:40 +0100
Medan det här med cyberpunk och persondatorer var ganska nytt gjordes det en
hittills relativt okänd film, som nu blivit litet kult. "Computer Beach party"
från 1987:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150179/
http://io9.com/5715544/even-better-than-tron-legacy-is-the-1980s-classic-computer-beach-party
"At the Found Footage Festival, computer historian Jason Scott was exposed for
the first time to an 80s film called Computer Beach Party. It was such an
outrageous pile of insanity that he had to find out more.
So Jason started researching this film, which was an all-but-forgotten VHS
affair. What began as research into the film's use of computers became a quest
that ended in Jason interviewing its director. ...
Two beach bums who have just graduated from high school want to have a big
party. So they break into a special online service that lets you order "VIP
parties" - sort of like Facebook crossed with a Budweiser commercial. They
order up girls, beer, and a band called Panther ...
Throughout this film, computers are used to forward the plot – but in weird
surreal ways that don't make logical or dramatic sense. In the beginning, they
want to have a party, so they utilize the computer to get together a party. If
you flip through the footage (and I have, more than I should have), you can see
the computer is sort of doing an instant message or groupware invitation system
so that you indicate how many people you want to attend and what type, but it's
instantaneous and hugely illogical (you can request the sex and age of your
attendees). It's not even explained how they do this, or where they get this
ability or access – they just do it.
Yes, life is surely fantastic with such amazing movies in it. And with people
like Jason Scott, whose extended analysis and research project related to this
lost piece of computer-related hilarity can be found here and here."
( http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2576 och
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2621 )
--Ahrvid
Ps. 1987 var Intels 386-CPU i faggorna, några 100 ggr svagare än dagens CPU:er,
och 480 x 640 i 256 färger var skitdyr supergrafik. Internet var ett hemligt
akademiskt sällskap och några få entusiaster kopplade upp sig mot
BBS-hemdatorer i kanske 1200 bps (ca 120 tkn/s). Bill Gates var fortfarande
finnig.
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