"I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It’s about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we’re just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television’s saying, everything’s saying ‘That’s the world.’ And it’s not the world. The world is a million possible things."
— Terry Gilliam
Real World ____ Heroes Needed
Timothy L. Fort has written a really good article about the lack of strong business role models in the movies today. I really got into it if you couldn’t tell. I’ve already posted a quote earlier but I can’t help but steal this passage as well:
“Erin Brockovich’s work was inspiring, but Julia Roberts’ portrayal made Erin into a model that students still resonate with today. Follow that. Exploit the ambivalence. Milk the drama. Show the challenges of being good in business. It might win some box office return. Maybe it would earn an Oscar. I’ll bet it will provide more realistic, dynamic and interesting models that might even help to make business people more ethical in real life.”
“Exploit the ambivalence” is going straight into the manifesto.
"Most students, though, find the idea that moral values can have a place in business as revelatory."
— Timothy L. Fort, “Real World Business Heroes Needed”
Click above to see what it is. I love that this is such a revolutionary business idea that it took Google to think of it.
Go all the way or go home
Remember that weird moment in Batman Returns where Batman, alone in his batcave, talks on the phone to Alfred in his normal Bruce Wayne voice? Imagine they took that scene and made an entire movie out of it. Oh wait they did it’s called “The Phantom”.
This is the perfect image to represent that movie, by the way. Phantom-mobile? Hell no! Take a taxi.
