Comments on: 2081

By: AbNo

AbNo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:09:35 +0000

“all this would have done is reward mediocrityÃ¢â‚¬Â¦”

Yes…. That’s actually the point of the story, to show why it’s bad to do so.

Not that anyone pays this message any heed today.

By: dekay46

dekay46 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:06:02 +0000

New from Apple. Your World. iTopia.

By: Phyreblade

Phyreblade — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:52:37 +0000

The story was called “Harrison Bergeron”? I think I’m going to have to read that… Interesting concept, if entirely unrealistic… I seriously doubt you could call this a itopian society, all this would have done is reward mediocrity…
Elevate the average to aristocratic status, as they would be the only ones not artificially restrained in some way…

By: Caio

Caio — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:57:45 +0000

@paul: Church hasn’t preached to me in nearly ten years now. And before that – when my parents made me go – I never listened. What the fuck rural shithole in Bavaria do you live in that the Church has any effect on you if you don’t want it to?

You’re missing the point: Objectivism is about living off the sweat of your own brow. In theory Angelina should be more of an Objectivist Satan than Kant: She never had a job, never been poor, got her first movie roles because her dad had connections, and has cruised off of letting people film her digitally altered titties and asscrack.

She’s never contributed anything to her own existence, and has only robbed from that of others. And now she’s some objectivist?

I’m supposed to finish work, turn on a movie, and get ‘living off the sweat of your own brow’ lesson from someone who is a millionaire for letting a CGI artist remove the imperfections from her ass crack? Fuck that.

By: dekay46

dekay46 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:16:51 +0000

@Lord Cocksworth: It can be autism time now?

By: Lord Cocksworth

Lord Cocksworth — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:36:14 +0000

@ ack:

Surely, since you didn’t like their works, there is not even the slightest possibility other people may have enjoyed them?

By: wookie_x

wookie_x — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:57:38 +0000

A script doesn’t have to be particularly long. Consider the original script for the movie Army Of Darkness. It was only 43 pages long. For the TV mini-series The Stand, the book was over 1100 pages long, the script was only 460 pages. For Once Upon A Time In Mexico, the script was a whopping 45 pages long. The average motion picture script is 100 to 150 pages long. It’s actually fairly easy (technically) to make a short story into a movie.

By: kaztheberserk

kaztheberserk — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:02:01 +0000

This was actually a fantastic short story, not so much for the quality of the story, but for the message that Vonnegut was trying to get across. Basically, he’s arguing that we can’t ever make everyone equal in every way, and that everyone should thrive on their personal talents and abilities.

That being said, the ending does seem like he never quite expected to have to end the story, the entirety of the message comes across in the description of the setting.

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:18:44 +0000

some one made this a movie already but i guess they are doing a remake

By: mAgnUS BUTTfoorson

mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:28:12 +0000

How is this supposed to come out in 2008 and there are still pictures but no one actually has started making it?