While watching Peter Watkins's "Privilege", I got a vibe of both "Wild in the Streets" (about a rock star who runs for president) and "A Clockwork Orange" (in the sense of an autocratic government manipulating a well known figure for their own ends). But more than anything, this movie's protagonist is the precursor to all these so-called influencers. These people who announce that they like certain things, as if to imply that you and I should too, wield as much power as any politician. How long before one of them gets used the same way that the protagonist here does?
It's not a great movie - kind of slow at times - but it still serves as a good warning about letting celebrities have too much influence over the public. Watkins's 1969 movie "Gladiators" depicts a future in which war has become a TV sport, much like all these reality shows.
Paul Jones was a member of Manfred Mann, while Jean Shrimpton was a supermodel. Co-writer Johnny Speight created "Till Death Do Us Part", on which "All in the Family" was based.
It's not a great movie - kind of slow at times - but it still serves as a good warning about letting celebrities have too much influence over the public. Watkins's 1969 movie "Gladiators" depicts a future in which war has become a TV sport, much like all these reality shows.
Paul Jones was a member of Manfred Mann, while Jean Shrimpton was a supermodel. Co-writer Johnny Speight created "Till Death Do Us Part", on which "All in the Family" was based.