Chad, or more correctly "the Chad" (said in the same tone of voice as that SNL office skit with the guy who always puts a "the" before peoples names - "the davemeister" ect...) is a running gag in the movie. Personally I didn't find it funny, but I guess that's a matter taste. In any case, I can't see how this could have been planned, as the movie had to have been finished a long time ago, and the recent fame of the election ballot chad could not have been foreseen. And any suggestion that "the Chad" was added last minute to the script in order to ride the chad wave generated by the election controversy runs into the credibility problem generated by the fact that this would be a lot of work to go through for a very stupid joke. So, in other words, I say coincidence, and not a very meaningful one at that.
That was my take too. But, what he was saying was that he thought that someone from the studio had noticed that chad was a fresh and timely political news buzz word getting a lot of play and then tried make a covert media connection (by alerting reporters ?) since it was also a preexisting comic theme in their newly launched movie. An attempt to bundle his smaller movie meme with a larger (spontanious) political news meme. I guess I thought the funny part was the coincidence aspect linking these two look alike blips coexisting in saturated media and how Tom makes a little office joke by connecting the dots with a slightly paranoid industry theory. I need a vacation.
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- jim 11-16-2000 5:14 pm
That was my take too. But, what he was saying was that he thought that someone from the studio had noticed that chad was a fresh and timely political news buzz word getting a lot of play and then tried make a covert media connection (by alerting reporters ?) since it was also a preexisting comic theme in their newly launched movie. An attempt to bundle his smaller movie meme with a larger (spontanious) political news meme. I guess I thought the funny part was the coincidence aspect linking these two look alike blips coexisting in saturated media and how Tom makes a little office joke by connecting the dots with a slightly paranoid industry theory. I need a vacation.
- bill 11-16-2000 9:13 pm [add a comment]