This movie is in my top 3 or 4 very favorite movies. I loved it at the drive in back in the 70s as a kid before I even really understood the depth od the story but i knew there was something special and the older i get the more i love this film
I saw this scene when I was 13 yrs old, and immediately perceived our inevitable and problematic future… only now the “Majors” include Amazon, Google, and several others I won’t name here.
Hello. Touche...yet their weaknesses apparent. Pull the plug and look away. EMP, misdistribution of energy, run basic stochastic coefficient ratio regarding ... anything and you can't miss it, even blindfolded. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel, figuratively speaking or as Vader put it, "All too easy." These conglomerates can be easily sliced and diced like any other, only to be sold around the globe as mincemeat barely worthy to fill your taco in Thailand. All take energy and other weaknesses. Thank you
We were the first family in our neighborhood to get "Cable TV and HBO" In 1975. One of the first movies I watched with fascination was "Rollerball" I was 10yrs old thinking how could someone possibly think that our country could end up like that? Here I am now ready to turn 60yrs old watching with reality 🤔
"The game was created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort. And the game must do its work. The Energy Corporation has done all it can, and if a champion defeats the meaning for which the game was designed, then he must lose." "No player is greater than the game itself. ... It's not a game man is supposed to grow strong in, Jonathan. You appreciate that, don't you?" Oppressors cannot allow individuals to arise within the collective.
I mean think about John Houseman. He played the implacable, materialist, northeast WASP greatest generation villain in at least 3 movies in the 70s. But then in the 80's he's the same character in a "Smith Barney - We Earn It" Wall Street investment commercial. The same character had become the hero.
I wonder if Jonathan should have listened more and retired? Thus at least safeguarding his team from the ferocious rule-changes that almost doomed them and left many either dead or injured never to play again? Or did he win at the end and end the stranglehold the Corporations had over the people?
I have always thought that too...I love that he rebelled. and I root for him...but he was very selfish in his rebellion...His best friends were killed and his team was pretty much annihilated....He Won...but we will never know what exactly he did win...a rousing finish as he skated around the track? Can't see the corporation letting him continue in Rollerball after that...and honestly, if the vast majority of people are coddled by Luxury and a great standard of living as implied in this scene here...there won't be any revolution. The "Statement" Jonathon has made is very Pyrrhic in the long run. It's up to us the audience to make a good or bad ending...and Jonathon's utter defiance of corporate decisions just won't stand in the long run in my opinion. God I love this movie.
Well if you look like that than Julian Assange or Snowden should never did things like they do because it ruin their lives and lives of others but is it really their fault?Jonahtan always wanted to play rollerball because he loved the game and his intentions was pure at heart and I believe that that this was the message of this film if you do things that you love with passion and without secret agendas even if you are in minority and fight against the (corrupt) system you can still win.....
whom is best to play the role of John Houseman? Stream a series, 10 yrs before the start of the movie. 10 yrs / seasons 10 eps each, with at least 10-15 mins of game play content // co ed females play the bikers 'corporate decisions are made by corporate executives' and the slaves need not know how decisions are made usa is still going thru their era of Corporate Wars // just do not interfere with management decisions
This movie is in my top 3 or 4 very favorite movies. I loved it at the drive in back in the 70s as a kid before I even really understood the depth od the story but i knew there was something special and the older i get the more i love this film
For me, this was the seminal scene of the movie, with its core message , "Corporate decisions are made by corporate executives."
Others disguised as corporate dictatorship ruling society
Houseman plays the malevolent bureaucrat so well...
I saw this scene when I was 13 yrs old, and immediately perceived our inevitable and problematic future… only now the “Majors” include Amazon, Google, and several others I won’t name here.
You’re right. This corporate society looks like the WEF.😂😂
Hello. Touche...yet their weaknesses apparent. Pull the plug and look away. EMP, misdistribution of energy, run basic stochastic coefficient ratio regarding ... anything and you can't miss it, even blindfolded.
It would be like shooting fish in a barrel, figuratively speaking or as Vader put it,
"All too easy."
These conglomerates can be easily sliced and diced like any other, only to be sold around the globe as mincemeat barely worthy to fill your taco in Thailand. All take energy and other weaknesses.
Thank you
@@eole222yeah it sounds an awful lot like y
The WEF's stakeholder capitalism 🤔
What a beautiful dream.
One human being defeats the system.
I will always love this movie.
Rest in Peace James Caan.
Yes. We did not know he had passed away.
kind of prophetic now.
"It is man's frantic insistence upon substitutes which
releases the flood of folly upon the Earth."
Vernon Howard
"For the common good" how many times has that rhetoric been betrayed in human history?
Every time it's been used as a rationale.
Always ignores the individual.
We were the first family in our neighborhood to get "Cable TV and HBO" In 1975. One of the first movies I watched with fascination was "Rollerball" I was 10yrs old thinking how could someone possibly think that our country could end up like that? Here I am now ready to turn 60yrs old watching with reality 🤔
This reminds me a bit of the meeting in the Godfather between Corleone and Sollozzo.
Why?
"The game was created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort. And the game must do its work. The Energy Corporation has done all it can, and if a champion defeats the meaning for which the game was designed, then he must lose."
"No player is greater than the game itself. ... It's not a game man is supposed to grow strong in, Jonathan. You appreciate that, don't you?"
Oppressors cannot allow individuals to arise within the collective.
I mean think about John Houseman.
He played the implacable, materialist, northeast WASP greatest generation villain in at least 3 movies in the 70s.
But then in the 80's he's the same character in a "Smith Barney - We Earn It" Wall Street investment commercial. The same character had become the hero.
I wonder if Jonathan should have listened more and retired? Thus at least safeguarding his team from the ferocious rule-changes that almost doomed them and left many either dead or injured never to play again? Or did he win at the end and end the stranglehold the Corporations had over the people?
I have always thought that too...I love that he rebelled. and I root for him...but he was very selfish in his rebellion...His best friends were killed and his team was pretty much annihilated....He Won...but we will never know what exactly he did win...a rousing finish as he skated around the track? Can't see the corporation letting him continue in Rollerball after that...and honestly, if the vast majority of people are coddled by Luxury and a great standard of living as implied in this scene here...there won't be any revolution. The "Statement" Jonathon has made is very Pyrrhic in the long run. It's up to us the audience to make a good or bad ending...and Jonathon's utter defiance of corporate decisions just won't stand in the long run in my opinion. God I love this movie.
Well if you look like that than Julian Assange or Snowden should never did things like they do because it ruin their lives and lives of others but is it really their fault?Jonahtan always wanted to play rollerball because he loved the game and his intentions was pure at heart and I believe that that this was the message of this film if you do things that you love with passion and without secret agendas even if you are in minority and fight against the (corrupt) system you can still win.....
Houseman does a great anticipatory impersonation of Klaus Schwab. Very prescient.
Kingfield should of told Johnathan E that he is nothing compared to Mr. Haaaaarrrrrttttttt.
Good idea
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John Houseman makes this movie what it is.
Doctrine and Covenants section 123
Now I know how Biden felt when they swapped him out for Kamala without due process.
whom is best to play the role of John Houseman? Stream a series, 10 yrs before the start of the movie. 10 yrs / seasons 10 eps each, with at least 10-15 mins of game play content // co ed females play the bikers 'corporate decisions are made by corporate executives' and the slaves need not know how decisions are made
usa is still going thru their era of Corporate Wars // just do not interfere with management decisions
Hey! It's producer turn actor