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Snakes on a Plane
2006 · Film · 105 min
Directed by David R. Ellis
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
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"High concept" doesn't refer to the elevator pitch being interesting or unique. The less interesting or unique the movie is, the more high-concept it is.
"High concept" refers to the elevator pitch being a complete description of the movie. Nothing in the plot that might take more than a couple of seconds to describe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_concept
> High concept is a type of artistic work that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with low concept, which is more concerned with character development and other subtleties that are not as easily summarized.
> Extreme examples of high-concept films are Snakes on a Plane and Sharknado, which describe their entire premises in their titles.
Interestingly, this is exactly the opposite of what everyone assumes the phrase must mean, based on the ordinary meanings of "high" and "concept". Such is life.
Hollywood dialog:
"We're making a new movie. It's called 'Snakes on a Plane' "
"Oh? What's it about?"
Any movie (or generally any artistic creation) can change the audience. But Snakes on a Plane might not hit the same as say The Wages of Fear.
Wikis for those not familiar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Fear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane
I think I associate it with the film, Snakes on a Plane.
[Snakes on a plane| https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/] is a hoot!
It would be interesting if a social media post/idea led to a movie.
I know social media led to the phrase "Get these MFing snakes of my MFing plane!" getting included in the Snakes on a Plane movie.
I think there was a reddit post turned into a movie deal about what if modern U.S. Marines were transported back in time to the Roman era, but I don't think anything has come from it.
Does anyone know of any other social media posts affecting or turning into movies?
Snakes on a plane didn't get a R rating, so we can assume the limit on number of expletives is above the number for that film.
> I bet this was a guy raised on video games. I was about to make a joke about it but I'm actually serious.
That was a major plot point in the movie, Snakes on a Plane.
> This leads us to today, where critic reviews are functionally useless for the broad audience
This is rather over the top, since the article clearly shows reviews and audience ratings does correlate, especially towards the top.
But it is always interesting with movies where the difference of opinion is starkest.
Note that the "audience ratings" does not always correlate with the average audience. Especially with divisive movies like TLJ or the Ghostbusters reboot, disgruntled fans run campaigns to get the score down. TLJ is still one of the highest grossing movies in history, so the audience rating putting it significantly lower than say John Carter or Snakes on a Plane is clearly not representative of the general movie going audience.
From talking to their friends, or older siblings, or parents about their experience. By watching non-pornographic films where sex scenes are more realistic. By reading online accounts from other teenagers or adults. By talking about it in sex ed class. By reading articles in the newspaper such as "What Teenagers Are learning from Online Porn".
Moreover, the 15-year-old doesn't need to know what real sex is like in order to suspect that porn is fantasy. "Snakes on a Plane" is not treated as a documentary by people who have never travelled on a plane.
Film idea: a young Indiana Jones and Samuel L Jackson's character from Snakes on a Plane attend a church like this as teenagers.
Anyone else got goosebumps?
Not all of it was "great", but definitevely left their mark on the internet and in society:
Of the top of my head:
- The thousands of memes, from rickrolling to rage comics.
- Dusty the cat
- Project Chanology
- Gamergate
- The Fappening
- Karen, the school bus monitor
- Snakes on a Plane (movie), Cave Story (game) and many others became highly successfull after becoming viral in 4chan.
- Risk of Rain (game), Engine Heart (tabletop rpg) are commercial products that were created by anons with the help of 4chan.
- Many other free quality media being created, from videogames (Katawa Shoujo), to tabletop rpgs (Adeptus Evangelion), wargames, comics, music, etc. [0]
- 9001 lulz/day
[0] I would know more, but I mostly browse /tg/ and /v/ related boards.
A lot of media isn't designed to last. I saw 'Snakes on a plane' it's a trash movie but I enjoyed it. I wouldn't watch it again but I'll go and see another trash movie soon I'm sure.
It's a fair question, and frankly it may well be it has nothing to do here. I just see it as relevant to nerd-culture because of the obvious (I think) reference to the "Snakes on a plane" movie. You could argue nerd-culture is not enough for hacker news, but then if you look at the homepage for example the GOOG split into GOOG/GOOGL article really has nothing to do with hacking. It's news for google shareholders, but somehow it seems many people on HN care about the stock market and Tesla cars and many other things which don't directly relate. Some things capture the HN mind-share and they become acceptable. Sometimes I too am baffled by what ends up on the front page.
So many people, many interests and opinions. That's why there is a 'new' page and a front one I suppose.
Why should they expect a lower return? While I understand that value in being unique, I can't imagine a high quality production of a public work would be damaged that much by low quality productions of a similar work unless it's just profanely overdone. And in that case, why would they have sunk that much money into it?
I mean, every time a zombie film comes out, three cheaper ones come straight to video. The new Dawn of the Dead did fine. And even in copyright, Snakes on a Train was in video stores three days before Snakes on a Plane came to theaters!
Sure, they may have had to think of a unique name to identify their product to fans (even just "Peter Jackson's LotR",) but I'm not convinced that they would've suffered, had lower quality renditions been widely available. It may have made them stand out more.
I really disagree with the premise of this post. Emotional impact (United 93), psychological impact (Black Swan), intellectual demands (Primer) all equate to a lower rewatchability score, since watching the movie takes a lot out of me. However, the more of an impact a movie makes, the higher my opinion of a movie. Because something is light and fluffy doesn't make that movie "better", it just means it's easier to watch.
Rating films this way may do a good job of the "so bad it's good" camp (Snakes on a Plane), but will do an incredible disservice to movies like Black Swan.
ℝ² is the Cartesian plane; it is a reference to the movie "Snakes On A Plane".
> perfect example of the male body
Ha! I must spend too much time around weightlifters/powerlifters. He looked a little scrawny to me.
Another interesting case of internet popularity not translating into sales was "Snakes on a Plane". From wikipedia:
""" Due to the Internet hype surrounding the film, industry analysts estimated the film's opening box office to be between US$20 million and US$30 million.[4] While Snakes on a Plane did narrowly beat Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby for the number one position during its opening weekend, it did not meet these estimates and grossed only $US15.25 million in its opening days, a disappointment for New Line Cinema. ""
The one movie that tried this tactic (Snakes on a Plane) didn't do that well.