Privacy is dead. Or some would argue.
John Badham may be best known for Saturday Night Fever, but there's another movie he directed back in the 80s that touched on this very issue and became--and still is--one of my favorite films. When I was little, while other kids were watching cartoons, I would watch Blue Thunder on VHS tape repeatedly.
It starred Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell, but the real star of the movie was the anti-terrorist helicopter prototype. I thought Blue Thunder was the coolest aircraft since the fictional MiG-31 in Clint Eastwood's Firefox.
In 1983, CGI effects were practically nonexistent. Blue Thunder featured some of the most spectacular real-life aerial combat shot on film, and this was a few years before Top Gun came out.
Privacy has become a hot topic lately, but personally, I'm not overly concerned about someone trying to hack into my social media accounts because I try to be smart in using computers (e.g., not opening suspicious links, using 2-step verification). On the other hand, if you have something to hide, then, yeah, maybe you should be afraid.
Blue Thunder is a story of fiction, but the surveillance technologies featured in the film are not. And as the movie illustrates, technology can be used for either good or evil, depending on who has their hands on it.
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John Badham may be best known for Saturday Night Fever, but there's another movie he directed back in the 80s that touched on this very issue and became--and still is--one of my favorite films. When I was little, while other kids were watching cartoons, I would watch Blue Thunder on VHS tape repeatedly.
It starred Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell, but the real star of the movie was the anti-terrorist helicopter prototype. I thought Blue Thunder was the coolest aircraft since the fictional MiG-31 in Clint Eastwood's Firefox.
In 1983, CGI effects were practically nonexistent. Blue Thunder featured some of the most spectacular real-life aerial combat shot on film, and this was a few years before Top Gun came out.
Privacy has become a hot topic lately, but personally, I'm not overly concerned about someone trying to hack into my social media accounts because I try to be smart in using computers (e.g., not opening suspicious links, using 2-step verification). On the other hand, if you have something to hide, then, yeah, maybe you should be afraid.
Blue Thunder is a story of fiction, but the surveillance technologies featured in the film are not. And as the movie illustrates, technology can be used for either good or evil, depending on who has their hands on it.
Blue Thunder 📄 🎬 🎥 🎞 💿 🖥 JustWatch.com
https://www.facebook.com/Ted.Nguyen/posts/10216426708164518
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