In this day and age. Cell phones and blackberry like phones would totally change the communication landscape of the movie. Call me old school, but it's refreshing to see people use phones that don't fold in half or pull out of their purse or pocket.
Maybe the fact I am 55 has something to do with it.
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I was just thinking that. I watched this movie again last night and thought how it's aged pretty well. I mean the vehicles in it were older and they still used pay phones, but they didn't use a lot of technology.
You didn't really see people using computers with giant monitors and cell phones.
I don't think they could pull this movie off today either. Information is too readily available. I think it would be a lot easier to connect the dots in today's environment than it was 18 years ago. She had to do actual research, not just a google search.
Good post.
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66 and looney as hell. too bad.
shareWay to go Godwin there, Lester. I mean, bravo! How you can relate 9/11, the Shoah, and this movie takes a great deal of talent and insanity.
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I think Pelican Brief is Grisham's best book and the movie is the best movie made from a Grisham book.
shareWell you’re now 63 (and hopefully still going strong).
I agree with you. It also wasn’t just the absence of just cell phones — also the absence of the internet, as we know it today. If the characters had the ability to spread their info with just a text message (as they do today), that might have changed the plot significantly.
Reflecting EXACTLY what you are talking about, here's a well done parody of the show 24, if it had premiered in 1994 with the technology of then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM&t=46s