'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google

theodp writes: If you never got around to reading Dave Eggers' novel The Circle, the tale of a powerful tech company that bears a more-than-passing resemblance to Google (and has an Apple spaceship-like HQ) is coming to the big screen and the first trailer is out. The film has a release date of spring 2017, and stars Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Remember, sharing is caring!

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[Opportunist]

Tom Hanks is an asshole [youtube.com].

Trevor Moore, spreading Fake News before it got cool!

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[Dins]

Love me some Trevor Moore.

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[Bite The Pillow]

I was in an elevator with Hanks once. Got in the up car when I was going down three floors. Went to the top floor, 21, and Hanks got in. Farts a dry, stony fart, and says, "Gumped my rump." and laughs. "Enjoy 20 floors of smelling like fame," he said, as he raped my seeing eye dog.

His voice is just so distinctive, had to be him. Preview Bite the pillow tab dotslashpassword click submit. Submit God dammit Ed will you click this button for me.

Re: What I want to know is who keeps telling Tom H

[Rei]

... the Circle alwaus seemed...

I know from context that you meant to write "always", but my mind interpreted that word as "walrus" ;)

liberal fascism

Now how does that work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism [wikipedia.org]

Fascism /fæzm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism[1][2] that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe, influenced by national syndicalism. Fascism originated in Italy during World War I and spread to other European countries. Fascism opposes liberalism, Marxism and anarchism and is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.[3][4] ...

One common definition of the term focuses on three concepts: the fascist negations of anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-conservatism; nationalist authoritarian goals of creating a regulated economic structure to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture; and a political aesthetic of romantic symbolism, mass mobilization, a positive view of violence, and promotion of masculinity, youth and charismatic leadership.[25][26][27] According to many scholars, fascism—especially once in power—has historically attacked communism, conservatism and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the far right.[28]

Roger Griffin describes fascism as "a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism".[29] Griffin describes the ideology as having three core components: "(i) the rebirth myth, (ii) populist ultra-nationalism and (iii) the myth of decadence".[30] Fascism is "a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti-conservative nationalism" built on a complex range of theoretical and cultural influences. He distinguishes an inter-war period in which it manifested itself in elite-led but populist "armed party" politics opposing socialism and liberalism and promising radical politics to rescue the nation from decadence.[31] ...

Some scholars consider fascism to be right-wing because of its social conservatism and authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism.[42][43] Roderick Stackelberg places fascism—including Nazism, which he says is "a radical variant of fascism"—on the political right, explaining that, "The more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be."[44]

Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.[45][46] A major element of fascist ideology that has been deemed to be far-right is its stated goal to promote the right of a supposedly superior people to dominate, while purging society of supposedly inferior elements.[47]

Benito Mussolini in 1919 described fascism as a movement that would strike "against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left".[48][49] Later, the Italian Fascists described their ideology as right-wing in the political program The Doctrine of Fascism, stating: "We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right,' a fascist century."[50][51] Mussolini stated that fascism's position on the political spectrum was not a serious issue to fascists...

Fascism is what we today call the "alt-right" - right-populism. The greatest enemy of fascism is those who prefer, support and embrace diversity - what the alt-right calls "cucks". Fascists seek a return to the "good old days", some sort of lost "days of glory", where "traditional" values reigned, while simultaneously rejecting the globalism and the focus on

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[utahjazz]

On Internet forums, especially if you're AC, "fascism" just means "zealousness". Like, "I hate the liberal fascists just as much as the conservative ones, and the Green Party fascists are the worst.".

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[Half-pint HAL]

I do not believe the GP meant to indicate any support for the usage, just comment on what it was.

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[utahjazz]

You are correct. I don't support the usage. Just trying to warn Rei that 5 paragraphs on how fascism is incompatible with liberalism is not going to hit home with AC.

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[epine]

On Internet forums, especially if you're AC, "fascism" just means "zealousness". Like, "I hate the liberal fascists just as much as the conservative ones, and the Green Party fascists are the worst.".

No, what it means is that we have a troll here whose agenda is to tilt the entire exchange so that every political disposition is judged against the most strident example of the first-to-mind reductive cliche.

It's a war against subtlety. It's a war against moderates and it's a war against moderation—wher

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, thank you for summarizing the situation from the liberal point of view.

I will try to give a view from the center.

Usually when someone says "fascism" in this context they really mean "totalitarianism". Essentially everyone conflates the Nazis, fascists and totalitarianism but it is clear that totalitarianism can be on any side of the political spectrum, it just has too many syllables.

So the current backlash, which got a demagogue (Trump) elected was, in my opinion, caused as a reaction against the lefti

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[Dread_ed]

You contradict yourself and even the references you posted from Wikipedia. I suggest liberal doses of psilocybin, and some time away from whatever you have been reading.

Who the hell cast tom hanks in this thing?

[drinkypoo]

He couldn't act his way out of a nutsack

Stay strong, Mr. Hanky.

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[Half-pint HAL]

He couldn't act his way out of a nutsack

Stay strong, Mr. Hanky.

That was my first thought, then I watched the trailer -- this might actually be a perfect role for him. They're placing him as a Jobs-esque stage speaker, and his acting may not be great acting, but it seems to work as a stage speaker style. I just hope there aren't many scenes where he isn't on stage.

Re: Another Hollywood diatribe

[Nidi62]

2 hours? These days you are luck if a movie runs past an hour and a half.

Re:Another Hollywood diatribe

[mwvdlee]

Little known fact; the movie title is an abbreviation from the original title "The Circlejerk".

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[Miguelito]

Yeah, I always love when a Hollywood movie tries to talk down to us plebs about how "eviil" some corporation(s) is/are, or how the "system" is holding down people.

They're some of the most over-paid, spoiled and "in an insulated echo chamber," people out there.

I especially love when they pull the 1% vs the 99% stuff.. many of them are in the 1%.

If it's anything like the novel

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll walk out after 15 mins. I really tried to like the book, but the hip references to modern tech felt absolutely kickable.. like watching a Sandra Bullock movie in a similar vein. Sorry. I'll pass.

Let me guess...

[__aaclcg7560]

Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).

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[Rei]

Google's an easy target; this is hardly the first time. Anyone here seen Ex Machina? Plot summary: "Sergey Brin's home pet project is to put Google's neural nets into robots, what could go wrong?". They don't call him Sergey Brin and they don't call the company Google, but they don't exactly hide their basis either.

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[__aaclcg7560]

Google's an easy target; this is hardly the first time.

My pet peeve is not Google but the media's tendency to identify Silicon Valley with San Francisco. The two regions are 50 miles apart. The Internship movie made it appear that it was a bike ride away.

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[tlambert]

35 miles from Moscone Center on Howard Street in San Francisco to the GooglePlex on Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain view.

As previously noted: I have an idiot friend who bikes this both directions, daily.

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[PCM2]

Weird. Turns out I've rode a bike from San Francisco to Google's campus. Unless that was just an implanted false memory...

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[__aaclcg7560]

Turns out I've rode a bike from San Francisco to Google's campus.

The Internship movie shows someone getting on a Google bike in Mountain View and then getting off the Google bike in San Francisco. Without breaking a sweat. Those Google bikes aren't really good for long distance riding. The Mountain View police are known to stop and question anyone riding a Google bike far away from the Google campus.

They *are*.

[tlambert]

Silicon Valley and San Francisco are a bike ride away (as shown in The Internship).

They *are*. I have an idiot friend who makes the commute from SF to Facebook via bicycle daily. Only if it's raining does he load his bike on the rack on the bus, in the hopes that it will stop raining later, and he will be able to use the bike to go the other direction, the next time he needs to move from one to the other.

Of course... he's Australian, and they are all crazy. ;^)

very american...

[johnjones]

this already exists....

please educate your fellow workers :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu#Censorship

regards

John Jones

meh, totally predictable plot lines

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's from Hollywood, post 1968, then:

1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.

2. The hero will be a military person who goes rogue, a whistleblower, a leftwing politician, a leftwing lobbyist/staffer/lawyer/journalist/activist.

3. The evildoer will be motivated by money or political power.

4. The good outcome will be something leftwing, and the villain will be defeated in-part by some failing of his/her rightwing ideology

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[Black Parrot]

If it's from Hollywood, post 1968, then:

1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.

Wow, I must have misunderstood the plot on all those post-1968 movies where I thought the baddies were commies, nazis, drug lords, foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, anarchists, poor people trying to get rich quick, rich people trying to get richer quick, crazy people trying to do incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons, wayward do-gooders, megalomoniacal supercrooks, pirates, pirate hunters, aliens, alien hunters, vampires, vampire hunters, zombies, orcs, dragons, ghosts, etc.

If you don't like the simulation you're living in, you can always rejoin us here in reality.

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[Maritz]

Because he mildly pointed out that only someone with a massive chip on their shoulder would claim that only those "bad guys" are seen since 68? Nah. Calm refutation. Perhaps it's you who had a raw nerve touched?

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[fsagx]

Wow, I must have misunderstood the plot on all those post-1968 movies where I thought the baddies were commies, nazis, drug lords, foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, anarchists, poor people trying to get rich quick, rich people trying to get richer quick, crazy people trying to do incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons, wayward do-gooders, megalomoniacal supercrooks, pirates, pirate hunters, aliens, alien hunters, vampires, vampire hunters, zombies, orcs, dragons, ghosts, etc.

If you don't like the simulation you're living in, you can always rejoin us here in reality.

.... and APES!

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[Black Parrot]

Yeah, I forgot a lot of good ones. Sharks, eels, piranhas, snakes, volcanoes, rising water on sinking ships, asteroids, robots, machines on the blink, doomsday devices, heat, cold, incompetent technicians, ghosts, time travellers, parties unknown, mad scientists, angry scientists, monsters created by mad/angry scientists, radiation monsters, diseases, ... It's kind of fun to think through the list.

And then there's the *real* villians: bad actors, bad directors, bad screenplays, bad ideas, ruining good book

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[NotInHere]

I'm sure you'll like these movies then:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04... [imdb.com]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19... [imdb.com]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt28... [imdb.com]

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[Big Hairy Ian]

If it's from Hollywood, post 1968, then:

1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.

Actually the villain is as likely to be European (You do have propensity for using Brits, Germans & occasionally the French)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't have to be european, but the villain HAS to have an accent that makes him obviously non-american.
Because those old american immigrant sure do love to hate on those new american immigrants.

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[Half-pint HAL]

4. The good outcome will be something leftwing, and the villain will be defeated in-part by some failing of his/her rightwing ideology.

Left-wing and right-wing are overused and meaningless terms. In the traditional sense, there are many things that aren't either right-wing or left-wing. Liberalism (note: not libertarianism) is not left-wing -- the idea that the individual is the most important favours neither the elites (right wing) or the masses (left-wing). In fact, liberalism is fundamentally more right-wing than left-wing, as commercialism enables freedom of choice more than the social norms of a collectivised society does.

And that is

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[PCM2]

Team movies have mostly failed until recently, which is why the success of the X-Men and the Avengers was such a surprise to everyone.

The success of movies based on some of the most popular young-adult fantasy properties in the world was a surprise ... to everyone?

And where were you for Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven, the Italian Job, Heat, the entire Fast & Furious series, Power Rangers, all the Star Wars movies, Reservoir Dogs, just about any movie set in any real-life war, Team America and all the movies it was parodying, Ocean's 11 and pretty much any other heist movie ever made, etc etc ...

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[Half-pint HAL]

Team movies have mostly failed until recently, which is why the success of the X-Men and the Avengers was such a surprise to everyone.

The success of movies based on some of the most popular young-adult fantasy properties in the world was a surprise ... to everyone?

And where were you for Seven Samurai, the Magnificent Seven, the Italian Job, Heat, the entire Fast & Furious series, Power Rangers, all the Star Wars movies, Reservoir Dogs, just about any movie set in any real-life war, Team America and all the movies it was parodying, Ocean's 11 and pretty much any other heist movie ever made, etc etc ...

Yes, it was a surprise, because it went far beyond comic readers. The Seven Samurai is eastern, and it's all redemption. The Magnificent Seven was a remake of it, and was successful due to being different. There was a rash of clones (Dirty Dozen etc) but they weren't "team" movies, they were people-dying-movies. the Italian Job is about Michael Caine's character, and his struggle. The Power Rangers is kids' TV, and kids TV gives multiple shallow characters to potentially identify with, rather than one stro

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[zuxun]

Is the movie company full of ads?

We viral marketers now?

[BlacKSacrificE]

Remember, sharing is caring!

..The fuck is this supposed to mean? We're expected to shill for this movie because we're geeks? Disgusting.

Re:We viral marketers now?

[codeButcher]

Spoiler warning

From the Wikipedia page on the novel [wikipedia.org]:

'After a brief incident with her own legal issues, Mae ends up agreeing to wear a SeeChange device [camera recording everything] herself (called going transparent), representing her own growing role in the company, epitomized by a public talk in which she insists, "Secrets are Lies", "sharing is caring," and "privacy is theft." '

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[BlacKSacrificE]

Awesome, I love it when the world doesn't live up to my cynicism, thank you.

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[mwvdlee]

1984 called, it wants it's doublespeak back (and, apparently, it's movie plotlines).

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[lonecrow]

Its interesting to me that these dystopian stories are all about a central authority "watching" and "listening" to us so they can intervene and control us. But as witnessed in 2016 rather then listening, it is more of a case of personalized narrow casting into our filter bubbles which then "creates" the reality for the individual. So instead of millions of "SeeChanges" its millions of invisible hooded worm tongues whispering into the ears of citizens convincing them of a reality that is sometimes at od

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[codeButcher]

You are so right.

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[Hognoxious]

No, it means you should torrent it like you've never torrented before.

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[Yvan256]

If anything, to be at least geek-related, they should have written "Share and Enjoy!(TM)".

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[GrabbaTheButt]

Remember, sharing is caring!

..The fuck is this supposed to mean? We're expected to shill for this movie because we're geeks? Disgusting.

Sharing is Caring is the go to term for Torrent Pirates.... I believe the OP is urging seeding of the movie

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[bosef1]

Well, it's kind of like how I'm a Beta, and you're an Alpha, but that's okay because "everyone belongs to everyone else".

Antitrust meets 1984 meets Facebook with Hermione.

[Anonymous Coward]

I would have loved to have been in that meeting.

Lets see ....

[PPH]

... if Hanks can crash land this one without killing everyone.

Wait, that would be more like Yahoo!