From Vice: It is mind-boggling to me, particularly when you compare it to real things that have actually happened. Someone killed 12 people and shot another 70 people at the opening night of Batman: The Dark Knight [Rises] [by Christopher Nolan!]. They kept that movie in the theaters. You issue an anonymous cyber threat that you do not have the capability to carry out? We pulled a movie from 18,000 theaters. But heres my faux-paranoid thought. Of course, this cant be a Sony publicity stunt - their stocks plummeted 10% over the last couple of days - but I wonder if this isnt a new kind of terrorism (to use the popular ideologeme) made possible by digital? Assuming that no Aurora shootings or Nord-Ost siege were really in the offing, it would seem that the biggest thing the Guardians of Peace could do would be to actually hack the DCP servers, or the files themselves, in a way that would totally mess up the screening: just scramble it or insert newsreel footage, mass demonstrations, cooking programs, MacNeil/Lehrer, or whatever, into the comedy of The Interview (perhaps thereby improving it, god only knows). So perhaps the Guardians are really offering their services to Sony, whether as super-security experts or perhaps as pioneers of a new digital exhibition practice, punking the screening in unpredictable ways. Not so easy to do that with celluloid, although Medvedkin, mad genius that he was, suggested some possibilities here, when the Moscow destroyed by the Bolsheviks reappears as the film is inadvertently run in reverse - https://youtube/watch?v=-bE-NFIl1NE
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:03:45 +0000
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