Hands up everyone who
remembers the iconic 80s teen-angst John Hughes film, The Breakfast
Club. You know—one of the Brat Pack classics.
Well, the question
arose on social media (in this case, imgur) around whether you could remake it
today and still have the same, oh, story arc.
The conclusion,
obviously, is that you can’t,
since no one in detention would give a toss about anyone else there, being so
wrapped up in their self-entertaining devices.
That got me thinking
about how smartphones and tablets might alter other classic images of isolation
and dysfunction. I’m sorry I’ve not got the Photoshop skills, but just imagine
what Edward Hopper’s stark “Nighthawks” would be like if there were a couple of
iPads in evidence.
Or Edgar Degas’s “The
Absinthe Drinker”.
Or Jacques-Louis
David’s “The Death of Marat”.
I mean—there’s a
whole universe of new interpretation here.
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