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Twitter posts on screen

posted 10 years ago by zap24
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I mean seriously, this is getting really old really fast. The last 3 movies I've seen from this year (The Fault in Our Stars, Chef and Frank) have all been using this. And it's not like this is the first time we see it. Do they really expect the audience to go like oooh wow look at that f-ing twitter post on the screen omg so edgyyy

Well, at least some of the posts in Frank were funny... Oh, and I really liked the movie tho, it's just this part that annoyed me.

[–] jjmn 10 years ago

Just because It's getting used in a lot of movies, It doesn't mean It's lame or anything. It's how you use it. Wich in this movie's case, Is in a somewhat funny and not out of the place way.

[–] JamesBondOO7 10 years ago

Normally it would annoy me all this social media stuff gets annoying for me however I found that it was well done in the movie because it was actually help moving the story in which the main character was tweeting out to his fans and was building up Frank to the public as well as there were moments where it poked fun at it self with the whole twitter thing as well.

[–] jobs-192-214289 10 years ago

My only gripe with the onscreen Tweets was the font was too small to read on my rather small 24" CRT television. Not everyone watching a movie has a 50" flat screen.

[–] sfrsez 10 years ago

thanks for saving me the rental fee. tweeter , in a movie or otherwise, makes me vomit. it is completely useless info, stacked on a giant heap of garbage

[–] TheManInOil 10 years ago

No, I think they just think it's more visually appealing than having a lot of closeups of his phone's screen.

[–] duanereilly74 10 years ago

would have been less invasive if you saw him typing it into a computer and posting it i felt, and i agree, the on screen pop ups did kinda put me off a bit.

[–] Orionspelt 9 years ago

It's just another form of product placement. But without it films like these probably wouldn't get financed?

[–] eeriebass 9 years ago

I don't think the intended reaction is: WOW TWITTER! That's the thing I like! I think it adds a touch of realism more than anything. Not only is everyone tweeting every mundane detail of their lives, but if you have something to promote, a band for example: Odds are you'd promote the hell of it on Twitter.

Only downside is it will really date the film in a way that will be laughable in 10 years. I'm not a film buff, so I don't know examples. But I'm sure there are movies that reference Myspace, and now when someone sees that they react with: "Lolz, Myspace?! Remember that, this movie is soooo old!! #tbt" But it's like that with most technologically centered movies, seeing a hip cell phone from 10 years back is a big joke too. Being Twitter centralized will link it to this era, but I don't think that's a bad thing. I don't think it was simply added to show how cool Twitter is or how cool the film is.

[–] Chocolegz 9 years ago

I don't think the intended reaction is: WOW TWITTER! That's the thing I like! I think it adds a touch of realism more than anything. Not only is everyone tweeting every mundane detail of their lives...

Yeah, the oversharing, tweeting...that world versus what's really going on. That's what I got from the movie as well. I also got that the quirkiness of the recording process posted on YT and Twitter became more of a star than the music itself...the whole internet famous thing. It's like American Idol auditions. Bad or weird auditions are added for entertainment. There's an audience for that. I personally thought some of the music was great but some people are only interested in sensation, the novelty or the image only. The "fan" at the cafe towards the end is an example of that. The guy who said something like, "You're the chinchilla guy!"

We'll be laughing and the twitter parts in a few years.

P.S. Love the Sun Ra's Space in the Place picture.

It's ok to like more than one actor. :))

[–] eeriebass 9 years ago

If you find earth boring, just the same old same thing...

The cafe confrontation was a really interesting scene. You don't know anymore in this age if people like you because they really have an interest in what you're doing, or if they're just making fun of you. I think this is even more the case if you perform avant garde material. My favorite classic example is John Cage performing "Water Walk" on I've got a secret and the host warns him that the audience may laugh at him and he states that "laughter is preferable to tears." (On youtube if anyone is interested)

I went to art school which of course had it's own music scene, a lot of those cats took themselves way to seriously. If you purposely go for weird and don't see the humor in what you're doing, you're in too deep and need some perspective.

Even the mighty Sun Ra said, "Most of the time the avant-garde looks so serious...They don't look like they're having fun...I want people to laugh at the costumes I have on." Perhaps that was Jon's biggest failing, he wasn't in it to have fun with music, he just wanted popularity.

[–] Chocolegz 9 years ago

What I loved about Sun Ra was that he was real. He seriously looked like he was having fun. It wasn't a put on. The whole band was like a warm hug. I'm too you to have seen him live but I did spend a New Years Even with his band. Weird works when it's genuine.

Frank got the love of the band because he's real. Some of the internet people probably didn't get that. They just saw the head.

It's ok to like more than one actor. :))