Charlie Brooker explores the gulf between real life and television. How TV's notion of knowledge has changed from bespectacled experts to celebrity presenter drivel.
09:39 - 10:52 The music is Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedy's performed by an orchestra. And just when you though Charlie Brooker could not get anymore awesome.
It's kind of weird seeing He-Man explain time travel is fictional, next thing he'll be admitting he is a fictional character and he'll break down in tears.
Please no Charlie don't give up n stop posting stuff, just cause folk are hijacking your beautiful work, they're only doing cause they're loving it n you speak truth that resonates x you are blessed to infiltrate x nice one our kid xxx
Stupidity is a by-product of education. To an extent you are right to say this, some people are not educated enough to realise they can educate themselves!
What he said about the television being wheeled into class is absolutely true, every child acts as if they'd never watched tv before, it was similar to being allowed on the computers, we'd just go balistic and then we'd go home and they'd be a tele and computer staring at us in the face...wierd.
You can tell this brilliant man used to write with the also so ever brilliant Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci. Their shows all shared that same agenda with metaphoric satirical wit. These three men make me feel fucking brilliant for being fucking intelligent.
even as a rational man, the ghot watch thing is still a little creepy, it catches you off guard because of the familar presenters you grow to trust over time i think
Ok when that guy mentioned jayce and the wheeled warriors (which was aired on channel 4 at the time) actually made me smile and laugh. Ok in honesty i hate april fools day news reports, not because they catch me off guard its because i have my guard so high up that when i hear the news of a gunman attack taking place im most likely not going to believe it. so TV ruined my life simply by lying to me and straining the line between reality and fiction
Was that old documentary about the spaghetti harvest for real? seriously, what was going through their minds. And the actors, picking strands of spaghetti off trees for a documantary made to decieve people. Couldn't they have just showed the truth of someone making the dough and then shredding it???
Calculating the number of atoms in the floor boards really isn't so difficult. You need the mass and the main chemical constituents as well as their ratios.
I like Curtis for the most part.... but you'd have to be pretty damn deluded in his favour not to admit he uses visuals to make his documentaries seem more interesting then they actually are
"curtis uses footage to illustrate arguments" he uses footage barely related to what he's talking about to make things more visually engaging, like for example showing footage from old Arabian knight movies well talking about the american government's exaggeration of Islamic terrorist threat in The Power Of Nightmares
@disamjisa "very few people have the breadth of literary knowledge of even the average middle class person from a few decades ago." Absolute bullshit. In the words of Peter Medawar "the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought." You seem to be a victim of this.
09:39 - 10:52
The music is Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedy's performed by an orchestra. And just when you though Charlie Brooker could not get anymore awesome.
It's kind of weird seeing He-Man explain time travel is fictional, next thing he'll be admitting he is a fictional character and he'll break down in tears.
Classic orchestration of 'Down the Tube Station at Midnight'? Sweet!
I love Charlie's presenter/expert intro spiel, he absolutely nails it. The inflection, the language, perfect.
"I'm going on a journey:..."
From 14:24 the dude at the door, while he talks about ghost watch is hilarious!
Great, now I have to go to bed thinking there's something called "Mr Pipes" waiting for the lights to go out
Please no Charlie don't give up n stop posting stuff, just cause folk are hijacking your beautiful work, they're only doing cause they're loving it n you speak truth that resonates x you are blessed to infiltrate x nice one our kid xxx
Stupidity is a by-product of education. To an extent you are right to say this, some people are not educated enough to realise they can educate themselves!
What he said about the television being wheeled into class is absolutely true, every child acts as if they'd never watched tv before, it was similar to being allowed on the computers, we'd just go balistic and then we'd go home and they'd be a tele and computer staring at us in the face...wierd.
that cartoon allstars drug special scared the crap out of me as a kid.
I wasn't very old at the time and it scared the shit out of me.
14:35 , never noticed the ghost in charlies hallway before. that was clever
You can tell this brilliant man used to write with the also so ever brilliant Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci. Their shows all shared that same agenda with metaphoric satirical wit.
These three men make me feel fucking brilliant for being fucking intelligent.
"Oh go and edit the Guardian" :D
i could not sleep with the light off for weeks after watching ghost watch when i was young
Was that Ridley Scott saying "yess... terrr.... day"? heh.
Ah, so "Ghost Watch" is where Slenderman got his start. Doesn't quite have the polish of his later work, but he still had all the basics down.
"How TV ruined your life" the show calls itself.
Is being watched on the internet, which is probably going to ruin so many more.
12:00 Ladies and gentlemen, your nightmares for the next three weeks.
I think Charlie himself was the one person that disliked this, oh Charlie!
You are a total fucking star for posting this info! I've been trying to track down that music for ages, thank you!
"Draw something that scares you.
Alright....What does a vagina look like?"
epic
even as a rational man, the ghot watch thing is still a little creepy, it catches you off guard because of the familar presenters you grow to trust over time i think
@adfaadfa89
I know, I've probably spent the last 20 minutes trying to work it out! The bit around the 2 minute mark is really familiar....
Ok when that guy mentioned jayce and the wheeled warriors (which was aired on channel 4 at the time) actually made me smile and laugh.
Ok in honesty i hate april fools day news reports, not because they catch me off guard its because i have my guard so high up that when i hear the news of a gunman attack taking place im most likely not going to believe it. so TV ruined my life simply by lying to me and straining the line between reality and fiction
Ironically I watched this instead of revising...
Is that Henry Woolf at 7:39??
6:57 Is that Michael Palin in a time warp?
The music at 04:21 is? I must know!
that WO-GAN just scared the life outta me o.e
Oh God, 7:28, Charlie predicted LA Noire
I believe it's Johann Johansson - The Rocket Builder.
Hahahaha this one is amazing
What is the female Bush scratching at 9:13? There's got to be a joke in there but I just can't construct it.
I have still got my packaged wo - gan action figures, they must be worth a few quid now ?
Was that old documentary about the spaghetti harvest for real? seriously, what was going through their minds. And the actors, picking strands of spaghetti off trees for a documantary made to decieve people. Couldn't they have just showed the truth of someone making the dough and then shredding it???
I love how meta this is
Calculating the number of atoms in the floor boards really isn't so difficult. You need the mass and the main chemical constituents as well as their ratios.
Wizzy wig. I used to see that in small school too
I want a Lazer Cow!
@adfaadfa89 It sounds like a weird xylophone version of New Born by Muse.
WO-GAN is the most fucking surreal cartoon i've ever seen!!
Oh how I love the British sense of humour.
Brightly coloured bibble.
Look near the door at 14:35 they put a ghost in there for a joke.
Laser Cow.. FTW!
I would totally watch Wo-Gan
@tomgoldswain2
if you find out i really wanna know
Barry Shitpeas at 14:18
@disamjisa
I think you may have completely misunderstood what i have just said.
so why is what Curtis does OK but all that symbolic journey stuff of other documentary shows isn't?
I want a laser cow
think the music at the beginning is a different version of this ....
/watch?v=hjvspeLgeww
4:34 - to be fair, it was only a ginger...
somewhat ironic coming from an Adam Curtis fan though
03:37 Baldrick's mum
8:15 You're doing it wrong, Brooker.
I like Curtis for the most part.... but you'd have to be pretty damn deluded in his favour not to admit he uses visuals to make his documentaries seem more interesting then they actually are
9:12 - that's a MAN, baby! a MAN!
WORDY!!
@adfaadfa89 It sounds like a Xylophone cover of Everyday by Carly Comando
/watch?v=RCObXuAwCIA
I finally found it!!
Ruth Barrett - Earthflow
/watch?v=RE0Q4O_GUuw
"curtis uses footage to illustrate arguments" he uses footage barely related to what he's talking about to make things more visually engaging, like for example showing footage from old Arabian knight movies well talking about the american government's exaggeration of Islamic terrorist threat in The Power Of Nightmares
@disamjisa "very few people have the breadth of literary knowledge of even the average middle class person from a few decades ago."
Absolute bullshit.
In the words of Peter Medawar "the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought."
You seem to be a victim of this.
@tomgoldswain2
if you find out i really wanna know