Also - Don’t the Underwoods use iPhones in season 1 but Android phones in season 2? That was my recollection, but it’s been years since I watched.
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Director Rian Johnson: Apple Doesn't Let Bad Guys Use iPhones on Camera in Movies
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Also - Don’t the Underwoods use iPhones in season 1 but Android phones in season 2? That was my recollection, but it’s been years since I watched.
Always wondered about a Docu-drama. That's supposed to be true to life like. Halfway between truth and fiction, what happens then?
If you want to confirm to me that you have no integrity, tell me something like, “I really shouldn’t tell you this, but fine, I’ll tell you.” Oh the struggle you must be having to do the right thing. Oh how ashamed you must be feeling for doing something you know you shouldn’t. Oh how gleeful you’re telling me you feel for spilling a little secret. Oh how important you must feel for being in the know. Just say it or shaddap.
And I really shouldn’t tell you this, but fine, I’ll tell you. Kim Jong Il’s dead.
Or most CEOs.
And I really shouldn’t tell you this, but fine, I’ll tell you. Kim Jong Il’s dead.
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No it's easy. iPhone = good guy. Android = bad guy. The only confusion likely to arise is if we see an iPhone user wearing a black hat or an Android user with a white hat.
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It's just a suspicion? 😂
Anyway props to Rían for Knives Out and the only good sequel trilogy Star Wars movie.
If they are PAYING for product placement, they get to make demands/requests.
However if I just went and made a film I can use an iPhone I paid for how ever I wish.
This is the truth that the original neglected to mention.
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Also so while this is potentially true in Apple+ Tv shows they ALL use iPhone. Good, Bad or just plain 'orrible.
If something is out of there creative control BUT they have paid for the product placement ( and I personally know they do - not matter what others have said on here ) they they are fully in their rights to request that the it's not a bad guy.
I actually personally know a director / producer that got Apple to pay product placement as the main bad guy was going to use the iPhone to film people held hostage... Apple paid for him NOT to and only the main cop Had an iPhone(6) - the bad guys used very generic Android in the end.
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So if an actor played Tim Cook in a movie, the actor could only be seen with Windows and Android products?
I think in soap operas they use a special version of the iPhone that doesn't have a passcode. So when some characters lets their phone out of their sight for more than 5 milliseconds the bad guy / jealous girlfriend / whoever can pick it up, check their phone records, messages, and send fake messages from the phone. Always makes me cringe.
Well, that's Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones out of the running, but fortunately the cellphone coverage in New Mexico is nearly as bad as in Westeros.
Apart from that, how many stories get through the "Hollywood" (or elsewhere) meat grinder without designated heroes and villains? (Netflix even turned the protagonist of Altered Carbon into a hero... and looks like they're consequently having to skip the second book in which he does some very unpleasant things).
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Westeros does have a Starbucks though...
Some protagonists can still be nasty pieces of work... Tom Cruise in Collaterol for example. He used a Nokia 8210 therefore completely evil.
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Ever see Jar Jar Binks on screen with an iPhone? I rest my case.
Well yeah. Unwashed green bubble peasants are inherently bad people.
And now I'm gonna mystify my girlfriend whenever we go see something by pointing out who the bad guy is 10 minutes into movies.
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I'll never understand why everyone's attention span has dwindled to that of a goldfish. Knives Out easily could have been another 90 minutes+ long.
Dark Tower should have been another 3 hours long.
And now I'm gonna mystify my girlfriend whenever we go see something by pointing out who the bad guy is 10 minutes into movies.
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I'll never understand why everyone's attention span has dwindled to that of a goldfish. Knives Out easily could have been another 90 minutes+ long.
Dark Tower should have been another 3 hours long.
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I will check it out, I always appreciate your thoughts on various subjects. As for Star Wars/Last Jedi...it was no Looper!
Knives Out was amazing. Though I feel this article may take away some of the suspense for you now.
How can Apple enforce this? Surely you don't need permission from the manufacturer for every real world product seen in a piece of fiction set in the real world? Are you telling me when I see someone using a pencil on TV they got permission from Mitsubishi?
Out of power this iPhone is, charged it needs to be. Hmm.
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And legally, Apple can file a lawsuit whenever they feel like it. And the producers can say goodbye to their profits, even if the lawsuit eventually gets thrown out.
This is actually funny. Sometimes negative placement can actually work for a product. I think Apple is over playing this, but it's their brand.
this is sort of funny - bad guys
I've always been drawn to the laptop vendor logo when i see them on film
funny how aapl logos are covered over obviously
I've always been drawn to the laptop vendor logo when i see them on film
funny how aapl logos are covered over obviously
The logos are covered, and so many scenes where there is no power cord plugged in to the back of the system.
Those of us who prefer plot twists, real character evolution, and creativity, rather than tired rehashes and bland fan service, think Rian did just great with Star Wars. When Disney bought Lucas, people were worried that Star Wars would become Disneyfied. And that has happened to some extent; but Rian Johnson's work was the complete opposite of that. Lots of people loved Episode VIII; just not the usual fanbois, who want the same stuff over and over. To be honest, I suspect you secretly agree with me on this; maybe you just don't want to get jumped on by people who think "I've got a bad feeling about this" is still the funniest line in history. So, as someone who saw Episode IV a week after it was released, and hissed at (then non-cliched) Darth Vader when he first appeared, I'm taking the heat.