WI certain movies not made

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Melvin Loh

How would hist been affected had certain movies not been made ? This thread is similar to the ALTERNATEHISTORY.COM contribution re certain books not being written.

No BIRTH OF A NATION- would there have been a resurgence of the KKK during WWI ?

No APOCALYPSE NOW- lesser portrayal of VW as insane hell fought by drug addicts ?

No GLORY- no awareness among wider society of role of blacks in ACW ?

No BLACKHAWK DOWN- lack of public awareness of US military intervention in Somalia + lesser appreciation of US special operations missions necessary in response to Sept 11th ?

Anybody else got any contributions ?
 

Michael

no STAR WARS, less advanced special effects
no BREAKER MORANT, less anti-britishers among the australians

hmm have to get back to this
 

aktarian

Saving Private Ryan: directors of war movies don't have urge to start movie with massive, bloody fight scene

The Matrix: Directors don't have urge to stick "flying" scenes into every movie and comercials. And I have different screen saver. ;)
 

Michael E Johnson

Banned
No Gone With the wind-Less reinforcement of the false belief that the white south was a victim in the Civil War



No Roots-- even less awareness on the part of whites about the history of African-Americans in the US


No Alien- SciFi/Horror never develops a really brutal dark side on screen

No Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan-No Star Treks 3-10, The Next Generation,DS9,Voyager and Enterprise which would really suck ass.
 

aktarian

Scream: Slasher movies don't get their revival in late 1990s. Not necessary a bad thing. Altough Neve Campbell doesn't get her chance. Which would be a bad thing.
 

David Howery

Did "Birth of a Nation" really lead to a resurgence of KKK activity all on it's own? I always thought it was a symptom, not the cause...
No "Jurassic Park"... CGI used more for mechanical things (as in T2) instead of creating living things?
 

Straha

Banned
no reefer madness movie is a good POD for making it so that we never see any attempt of a drug war.
 

viperjock

aktarian said:
Saving Private Ryan: directors of war movies don't have urge to start movie with massive, bloody fight scene

The Matrix: Directors don't have urge to stick "flying" scenes into every movie and comercials. And I have different screen saver. ;)
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If Saving Private Ryan is not made then you don't get the trend of realistic war movies. WWII movies don't make a comeback.
 

overoceans

No GODFATHER - Less sentimental portrayal of the mafia as family-loving ethnics.

No SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Serial killer as debonair, Nietzschean genius less of a cultural trope.

No 1964 LOLITA - I'll go out on a bit of a limb here and say that the word "Lolita" does not become quite the staple of porn and sex-talk that it's become in OTL. I realize the film isn't all that erotic, but it probably contributed somewhat to the popularization of the term, relative to a time-line where only the book exists.

Sticking with Kubrick...

No SHINING - Over-the-top, wild-eyed maniac is just one role in the Nicholson repertoire(mostly based on Cuckoo's Nest), not his signature character.
 

wietze

Michael said:
no STAR WARS, less advanced special effects
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no bad grammar there is from movie

aktarian said:
The Matrix: Directors don't have urge to stick "flying" scenes into every movie and comercials. And I have different screen saver. ;)
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wasn't this 'bullet time' thing inspired by the movie Akira, directed by Otomo Katsuhiro. so this kind of scenes might surface from somewhere else
 
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TehIrishSoap said:
Sounds interesting, you should develop this TL a bit more.
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You were officially warned on 1/1/16 NOT to necro long dead threads, especially with a one liner.

Lets see if this communicates the idea:

Kicked for a week.

You REALLY don't want to be the first person sent to Conventry for Necro.
 
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