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There's something a little strange about the idea that a company/product becomes real when it appears in a movie (or in the research/advertising for a movie). I

by arakyd 17y ago

There's something a little strange about the idea that a company/product becomes real when it appears in a movie (or in the research/advertising for a movie). Isn't it the other way around? Cool clip though.

inaka 17y ago
You've never read Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. He writes eloquently about how we seem to believe that the only truly real people are those we see on the big screen and if by chance we come into contact with one, we often feel more alive...
- rms 17y ago
  If we are living in a computer simulation, that may be true.
- 10ren 17y ago
  An alternative explanation for feeling more alive upon having contact with someone from the big screen is that we perceive such people as demigods.