So I'm sitting here in my apartment having just finished watching The Hitcher. It's your typical slasher movie (meaning that it sucked) but, and forgive me for sounding cliche, I just started thinking about Social Networking (hah.. please). The movie takes place in New Mexico and needless to say, two young people fight for their life while fending off a crazy Sean Bean. About three-quarters of the way thorough the movie the killer gets caught. But -- and GET THIS! -- he breaks free of his cuffs and kills the cops transporting him. While people are being stabbed, shot, or burned to death it struck me that if there were a better social network in place to back up those cops then they would have lived. They were traveling down a deserted road in the middle of the desert. Just like hermits or people on the periphery, they did not have the social network in place to effectively use, say, the information broker who would have told the cops (and Hollywood execs) that shooting the guy in the head is the only way to go. Forget about Miranda and the BoR, that dude had to go down.
Anyway, another thought just struck me: if people were doing that whole peer-news reporter thing then people would have known about this crazed killer. I don't know what people think of this but this is just a perfect example of how we need more Social Networking in life. If not to help save people from crazed hitchers on the roads then to let the movie producers know that movies about a killer murdering motorists was already done by the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and we all know how we feel about copycats. And don't even get me started on Vacancy...
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Social Networking & The Hitcher: Failing to Maintain a Proper Social Network Could Get Your Throat Slashed
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3 comments:
haha, very clever post Tim.
Let's start a movement to end all crappy horror movies by fixing their social networks!!
Definitely an interesting connection to social networking. I never saw the movie, but let me make sure I have this correctly. The only way to kill the killer is to shoot him in the head? And according to your theory, an organized social network would have provided the means in which to relay this vital information? I'm not sure I understand this line, "they did not have the social network in place to effectively use, say, the information broker who would have told the cops (and Hollywood execs) that shooting the guy in the head is the only way to go." Good to see you're always thinkin of social networkin, even while watchin movies.
Hey Joe,
I think I meant that movie executives should spend time researching what movie-goers are interested in. Hollywood has a bad habit of blindly shooting and hoping that they hit a target. If they do, great, a hundred new movies with the same plot will be made. If its a miss then the same premis with a slightly different plot will be hatched and released in a few years.
I think that's what I meant but you can never go by me. I can be more whacky then Estelle Getty sometimes... Not really helping my case here... Oh well.
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