Predicted by Videodrome, gorily explored by The Neon Demon.
Ryan looks at how technology has changed movies and the way we consume them.
This article first appeared atDen of Geek UK.
Unlike 8mm film, videotape was relatively cheap.
This availability of images created a certain amount of concern among censors and sections of the media.
What kind of psychological damage might horror movies likeDriller KillerorThe Evil Deadhave on young children?
What unforeseen effect could the ability to rewatch scenes of violence have on the human mind?
William FriedkinsThe Exorcisthad been withdrawn from video circulation as part of that 1984 act mentioned above.
Videodromeimagines a future where society has become addicted to the moving image.
We live in over-stimulated times, says the femme fatale-like character played by Debbie Harry.
We gorge ourselves on it.
We always want more.
And I find that very interesting.
The Neon Demonis very much designed to be like a YouTube movie, Refn says.
Its designed to be chopped up.
you’re able to cut it up into seven or eight pieces and theyre, like, vignettes.
In terms of filmmaking, what is the answer to this new era of democratized images?
But branded as a semi-sequel to the 2008 hitCloverfield, it wound up making more than $100m.
Further sequels are planned, with only tenuous links to the original monster movie other than the name.
Jessie inThe Neon Demonbelongs to a generation of people who understand the power of branding at a personal level.
In 2010, Swedish student Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg began making YouTube videos about his favourite pastime: videogames.
Its my television name.
Such utterances as Im vulgarity.
Im the future could have come from OBlivion himself, or his real-world inspiration, Marshall McLuhan.
It is, Refn says, his act of individualism.
The idea that the future of entertainment is a lot more about brands.
Its what it says that you as an individual person [that will count].
Twitter users can be trolled, YouTube videos spammed with horrific messages.
Videos and music can be taken and remixed, images Photoshopped in ways their authors never intended.
Like a vast version of Hollywood, the internet is a land of opportunity.
But so, too, is everyone else.
