{"id":205,"date":"2003-05-06T00:28:18","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/05\/06\/yes-i-am-a-geek\/"},"modified":"2003-05-06T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T04:28:18","slug":"yes-i-am-a-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/05\/06\/yes-i-am-a-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I am a Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As some of you know, I do not own a TV, so I have no idea that kind of media blitz the two sequels (sequel seems like the wrong word to use, when there are two) are receiving on the small screen this time around. However, I presume that the airwaves have been completely saturated with images from the forthcoming release. I can remember back to my first encounter with the movie, a commercial that appeared during the 1999 Superbowl. I remember that Nori and I felt whatever the Keanu “Whoa!” encompassed after we saw the clip. A few months later, we were blown away again (at the White Marsh Theatre?), when we were forced to watch it from the front row on opening night (afterwards, we commented that the dizzying angle from the front row added to the movie’s effects).<\/p>\n

The print and electronic media have jumped on the Matrix bandwagon, and have decided to interpret the American public’s anticipation for the movie.<\/p>\n

Salon<\/a> has decided to use the 4 year gap between the first and upcoming installments to provide an autopsy for the dot com era. The article<\/a> focuses on how the audience of programmer boys no longer have much hope in our muted economic climate. Essentially, they want to party as though it’s still 1999.
\nSlate<\/a> takes a different tack, and celebrates Neo as an “Evernerd” in its piece<\/a>. To Slate, the Matrix is a technological utopia for geeks. Instead of pining for an earlier era, the Slate article focuses on a way of resolving conflict in the Matrix, to make technology and humans cheesily live in harmony, the way that they never could in the Terminator series. Is it me, or does idea carry the scent of Mr. Gates?<\/p>\n

Finally, the Times<\/i> gives its two cents with a Matrix Fashion Show<\/a>. All I can say, is that every guy I know wanted to give Neo a “You da man” pat on the back, everytime the mustard (or was it purple? my memory fails me…) lining of his of his impeccably tailored black suit flashed in the original film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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