Nerd Movie Review

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Mar 11 08:54:53 1999

At 09:43 PM 3/10/99 -0800, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
>I was just watching Beverly Hills Cop.
>In the police station offices, several shots:
>DEC Rainbows.

The folks dressing the sets of movies scrounge almost as hard as
computer collectors. If they can sweet-talk some hardware maker into
lending machines for scenes, they'll do it. It's product placement.

Don't forget, many of the people working on movies are effectively
sub-contractors, and if they can do it for less money, they're
making money. And if they can get something that will "fall off
the truck" or re-sold when the sets are demolished, all the better:
I remember a particularly egregious example of a tech for the movie
"Twins" who was systematically begging software makers for actual
product (not just boxes, but disks, he insisted) to clutter some
laboratory scenes. What a scam!

- John
Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 08:54:53 GMT