Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
01:37 - Uh...
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55832,00.html
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...Is this for real?
A short film called iBrotha, starring Neil Rayment from the Matrix sequel, has just finished shooting in London.
The independent production is about a young man so obsessed with Apple Macs he becomes a Malcolm X-like revolutionary, fighting computer bigotry -- by any means necessary.
"It's about that whole religious fervor that grabs Mac users the way it doesn't with users of other platforms," said writer/director Jake Barnes, who described himself as a "recovering Mac addict."
Brother Copland emulates Malcolm X -- in a way. (Copland is the name of Apple's aborted operating system in development before OS X.)
Rayment, 30, and his twin brother Adrian feature in the upcoming sequel Matrix Reloaded, as a pair of kung-fu fighting villains. The menacing twins play rogue viruses, roaming the Matrix in all-white attire and silver dreadlocks.
The iBrotha movie features a multicultural cast of characters, including Brother Ive (after Apple's lead designer, Jonathan Ive) and Brother Newton (Apple's discontinued handheld computer). It also stars an early Macintosh, the 512K.
Bizarre, if true.
The movie's website is dedicated to the memory of Rodney Lain, a popular online Mac columnist who wrote under the iBrotha moniker. Lain committed suicide in June.
What a way for a pundit to achieve immortality.
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