Cappie-making of the Battle of Seattle

[coda]

I got that sinking feeling---Will this movie be as bad as the Poseidan Adventure #1 or Poseidan Adventure #2?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0850253/

[Guerrilla22]

It looks like like it has a hell of a cast though. Charlize Theron playing an anarchist?

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

Probally going to be a Black-Hawk-Down style, with the protaginist being the police, and then showing the police being repressed and fighting against "mongol-ish" protesters.

[Red October]

sounds like it'll be pro-cop. maybe we'll get some good scenes of cops acting heroic while the savage anarchists attack for no reason.

[Enragé]

"Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue when large crowds become hostile and police are outnumbered"

aww poor, poor police :(

[Sadena Meti]

And it's the writer/director's first movie... gawd...

Though he is Irish...

They should change the tag to "outnumbered but not outguned or outbattoned or outgassed or outwatercannoned or outpeppered..."

[Sadena Meti]

Just had an awesome idea... if it does suck, we send out a casting call for voices and we redub the movie :D

"Hey, look, some peaceful protestors!"
"Let us compensate for our small genetalia and attack them with tear gas!"

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13, 2006 05:15 pm
It looks like like it has a hell of a cast though. Charlize Theron playing an anarchist?
hubba hubba

[Marukusu]

Originally posted by http://imdb.com/title/tt0850253/plotsummary
Our lead characters are protestors, pedestrians, politicos, police, delegates and doctors. No perspective is left untold in this cross section and dissection of the films story lines of those who intentionally or accidentally find themselves on the streets of Seattle those fateful last days of the Millennium.

The plot seems to be unbiased... but then most cappie movies claim they are. We'll see about that.

[BreadBros]

This is an example of what the Situationists referred to as recuperation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation).

"To survive, the spectacle must have social control. It can recuperate a potentially threatening situation by shifting ground, creating dazzling alternatives- or by embracing the threat, making it safe and then selling it back to us"- Larry Law, from The Spectacle- The Skeleton Keys, a 'Spectacular Times pocket book.

Recuperation is the process by which the spectacle takes a radical or revolutionary idea and repackages it as a saleable commodity.