Are you people seriously dumb enough to be comparing that to concentration camp victims?
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Apple's 1984 Internal Inspirational Video with Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt
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Are you people seriously dumb enough to be comparing that to concentration camp victims?
Let me clear one thing up...
The comparison/analogy in the video was NOT to concentration camp victims, but to a brainwashed society under totalitarian rule, where the people have been minimized to "brainless button-pushers" with no creative inspiration in the computers they are using. They are essentially going through the motions and reduced to "boring PC business people" with very little hope or anything to spark their creative drive.
The *Macintosh* is delivered by the Apple solders, and the intuitive, futuristic operating system brings light and hope to the "troubled masses" and inspires their mind, and shows them a *new way* to think about computing.
THAT is what the video is about.
"And unto the darkness there will be light, and all suffering shall end, and joy and hope there will be, everlasting."
The comparison/analogy in the video was NOT to concentration camp victims, but to a brainwashed society under totalitarian rule, where the people have been minimized to "brainless button-pushers" with no creative inspiration in the computers they are using. They are essentially going through the motions and reduced to "boring PC business people" with very little hope or anything to spark their creative drive.
The *Macintosh* is delivered by the Apple solders, and the intuitive, futuristic operating system brings light and hope to the "troubled masses" and inspires their mind, and shows them a *new way* to think about computing.
THAT is what the video is about.
"And unto the darkness there will be light, and all suffering shall end, and joy and hope there will be, everlasting."
Newspaper at the end of the video has a title top left that reads "FLASH NEWS". He was obviously ranting about it even then.
swingerofbirch
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It was showing people doing mindless work, which is exactly what concentration camp victims were made to do. The Apple people were shown as saving these peoplewhy would you be saving your enemy? The scenes of bombing were showing them attacking the enemy; the scene of giving them the Mac was showing them having gotten past enemy lines to give the prisoners Macs, just like the Allied powers would have given the Holocaust victims food and medical care. I'm not saying it's a great metaphor, but in your alternate theory, who are they at war with? What is all the bombing about?
They didn't know that the world in 2010's is really becoming like that, regardless of the computer system you use.
I stopped watching after the inital minute when the soldiers land on the Normandian coast. Most of these guys would get killed, not very tasteful to use in a corporate movie.
It would have been better to see Jobs as Willy Wonka but this better than nothing. Talk about doing something you're passionate about.
Are you people seriously dumb enough to be comparing that to concentration camp victims?
I thought more about Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Or "Night of the living dead".
Agreed...an inappropriate characterization by a number of previous posters.
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Are you serious?
I am jewish and in NOOO way did I come away with your stupid correlation. Your comments, however, are offensive.
A brainwashed society? That is what Apple are now trying to do with the ecosystem they are now creating. People are not allowed to think for themselves. Everything must be done Apples way. Or they throw a tantrum and spit the dummy out.
Everything Apple stood against they have become. Amazing how a bit of money can change the way a company works.
swingerofbirch
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There was nothing that resembled Normandy either, but that was the idea of the film.
No one is saying that the captives in the film are depicted to be concentration camp victims. I, and others, are saying that is the metaphor. I feel like I'm in a twilight zone. Do some people not understand they are using WW II as a metaphor for the landscape between Apple and IBM? Apple is the allied troops. IBM are the axis powers.
It says you will see how 1984 is like 1944 . . .
It features FDR . . .
They say in the film, "Millions are held captive by enemy machinery."
If you go to the effort to match all the history of WWII and create a point for point metaphor for each actor in the film, why would the captives not be representative of a historical group?
