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William Gibson on Movies, Music, Media

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

automatic_jack writes "William Gibson gave a talk at the Directors' Guild of America's Digital Day last week. The text of it is up in his 'blog, and in it he says some intriguing things about the nature of the entertainment and media industries. There's a bit of a surprise conclusion at the end!"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOO-HAH!

  2. Re:Surprise at the end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    She dies only to have Nehoe revive her. Not only that... Morpheus gets totally shot down when he is told by THE ONE that his prophecy is for crap. Don't bother posting that spoiler here anyways. you know all the geeks here have seen it already.

  3. Unreadable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish he had quit. My eyes glazed over trying to read that crap.

  4. Re:Surprise at the end? by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    you know all the geeks here have seen it already.

    uh...yeah. Between that, and the way that the torlls were pathetically trying to spoil people with the ending for the two weeks leading to the premiere; I figured people would have the sophistication to see it was a joke...-1, troll...guess I was wrong.
  5. <table width="941"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this considered good web design?

  6. G00GL3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Who cares about Gibson? by What_about_CHOMSKY · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We really should be asking: What does CHOMSKY think about Hollywood?

  8. How about a casting call for Neuromancer? by LiberalApplication · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I realize this isn't exactly, or even close to on-topic, but I'm curious to see what Slashdotters have to say about this. I've always loved Neuromancer, as it was the first sci-fi book I had ever read and I've thanked God on many days that it was never made into a nightmarishly awful movie. But imagining for a moment that it were to be made into a decent flick, who would you cast to play the various characters from Neuromancer?

    As for Case, I'm leaning towards Billy-Bob Thornton.

  9. Yet again, a great writer.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    has made an otherwise stupifying day, bright.

  10. Re:Permanent history by Hard_Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Of course I'll be too long dead to find out."

    Speaking of which, I can just imagine pages of Slashdot being preserved, antiqued, and hung in nice frames in the future, just as we frame "quaint" prints of 1840's newspapers proclaiming the wonders of "Magical Magnetic Belts" and "Rejuvinating Electric Hair Brushes".

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