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May 12, 2016 · By TIME Staff. May 12, 2016 6:28 AM EDT. E ight years ago, with the publication of Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason, our country had a debate about whether its citizens were becoming ...
Jul 20, 2021 · In “Idiocracy,” set 500 years in the future, America is suffering from famine. Every public function has been turned over to some self-serving corporate interest. A fruit-drink company ...
Jan 17, 2021 · Idiocracy: A Gospel for the New Aeon. At last the great day dawned. Idiocracy, the totally made-up movie by Mike Judge released in the year 2005 of the Old Aeon, was in the month of February in ...
Jul 4, 2011 · We're rapidly becoming idiots, even as you read this. Posted July 4, 2011. The 2006 film Idiocracy was meant as a Wake Up call to America. Obviously, first and foremost, the film was meant to make ...
- In The Beginning
- Money Troubles For Idiocracy...
- Making It Look Right
- Ass, The Movie
- “We Were So Rushed.”
- Finding An Audience
Mike Judge (writer and director): The first time I got the rough idea was in '96. I was thinking about evolution. In our modern world, pretty much everyone survives, so what would that mean in the long run if you're talking about purely genetics? I very quickly had the idea of some kind of time-traveler-frozen-in-a-coma kind of thing. When Office S...
Darren Gilford (production designer): I remember having a conversation with Mike Nelson, who's the producer, back when I took the movie. And it was like, “Here's the money you have to make this movie; you either make it for this, or we're gonna find somebody else.” I remember sitting in that room thinking, “I'm gonna agree to do this movie knowing ...
Judge: I wanted it to look like an epic, Laurence of Arabia-like gigantic movie. I wanted it to look like a big-ass huge Blockbuster hit. Gilford: I did a bunch of concept art really early and I think I was overly ambitious. I did a bunch of stuff imagining what Washington DC might look like in the future, really dumbed down. I put a big Frank Gehr...
Judge: We actually had to shoot the Assmovie, which wasn't fun. Suhrstedt: They brought in about six guys with bare asses. Mike was literally saying, “I don't want any hair on his ass.” Judge: They just sent Polaroids to casting people; I should apologize to them for having to do that. Suhrstedt: We literally found a theater, a little bit south of ...
Judge: What would have been nice is to have a few more days of shooting because we were so rushed. Lampl: I think I worked for three weeks straight without stopping, sleeping at the studio off and on just because the demands were so great. Judge: At a certain point it went from a good vibe to thinking that this movie was cursed from the beginning. ...
Cohen: It was definitely disappointing but I was also really proud of making something that I thought was good. After thinking that it had disappeared, someone would tell you, “Oh, that was my favorite movie in college.” Hunt: I was disappointed that it didn't get a wider audience at the time because I thought Mike's work deserved that. It's such a...
Jul 22, 2024 · It's the story of an average man frozen in a capsule who thaws out 500 years from now to find a world overrun by garbage, idiocy, corporatism, and violence. The things Idiocracy predicted have gone from dystopian nightmare to everyday life much faster than 500 years. Just like the movie, people pay less attention to the world around them.
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Feb 24, 2022 · A decline of seven IQ points translates the average citizen to the intelligence level of the average juvenile delinquent. It is therefore probable that the decline in human intelligence is being accompanied by an increase in rates of murder, rape, and violent assault – as well as a lack of forethought at the ballot box.
