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The Social Network 2010
My roommate had a big interview at Adobe so I showed him the "Erica Albrecht is a bitch scene" while he was doing Leetcode mediums. He didn't really get it. Whatever. I'll keep listening to this beautiful score every time I need to do anything that remotely resembles programming.
"The Social Network" was made in 2010, back when Economics was the hot major, not Computer Science, even at Harvard, the lingering vestige of a time when bond traders were masters…
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Pretty Woman 1990
To have Gere's character reading Shakespeare's quotes, his Oxfords slipped off, on the green grass of a corporate plaza, like today's Product Managers listening to alternative music in their AirPods while eating Sweetgreen, accompanied by a beautiful woman, a down-on-her-luck streetwalker for whom life is utterly opened up by wealth --- "Stores don't like people. They like credit cards," --- his concession to the "creamy pleasure of not-working" (from a New Yorker poem I read) fuels a breathless fetishization of…
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The Karate Kid 2010
I know! Let's make a movie about kids beating each other up who learn from an alcoholic, unassuming mentor. The main kid will be a fish out of water kind of guy and be in a land who he'd never been in before to start fighting. Let's call it the Hunger Games.
Or, even better! That land will be China, where "everyone knows Kung-Fu". And then...how about let's have the event be televised and played in dramatic slow-motion, and not…Translated from by
