Billion Dollar Brain

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Feeling bored I am watching the 1960’s movie Billion Dollar Brain starring Michael Caine. The character of General Midwinter and his computer is eerily similar to the Trump administration. Totally stark raving bonkers.
 
I recently saw it again Michael Caine (great entertainment) and drew the same parallel.

The data crunching Honeywell console immediately had me thinking was this the first AI?

And the mad Texas commie hating republican USA general brilliantly played.

The uncanny resemblance to current events, it could actually be real.

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'Not a lot of people know this'
 
steeleye20 said:
I recently saw it again Michael Caine (great entertainment) and drew the same parallel.

The data crunching Honeywell console immediately had me thinking was this the first AI?

And the mad Texas commie hating republican USA general brilliantly played.

The uncanny resemblance to current events, it could actually be real.

😎

'Not a lot of people know this'
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This was actually Peter Sellars.

Back in the sixties he was one of the first to get a telephone answering machine and he used to record funny voices and impersonations. Celebs used to call him just to listen to his latest gag, one of which was Michael Caine and it stuck.
 
Badger11 said:
This was actually Peter Sellars.

Back in the sixties he was one of the first to get a telephone answering machine and he used to record funny voices and impersonations. Celebs used to call him just to listen to his latest gag, one of which was Michael Caine and it stuck.
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The first two films in the 'arry Palmer trilogy were good this one feels rushed and thrown together.
 
Not saying it is a great film- it isn’t thought with Ken Russell directing it might have been. Just that it was eerily reminiscent of the Orang One and his puppy Musk.
 
Not saying it is a great film- it isn’t thought with Ken Russell directing it might have been. Just that it was eerily reminiscent of the Orang One and his puppy Musk.j
 
Absolutely bombed at the box office, killing off any prospect of any further instalments. I believe they were going to make Horse Under Water next which could have been interesting. Anyway, Ken Russell made it too weird, and it was poorly cast overall, even Colonels Stok and Ross unable to rescue it. It had some curiosity value as the actress who played Anya (Francoise Dorleac, Catherine Deneuve's sister) was killed in a road accident shortly after it was made. Funeral in Berlin much better and Ipcress File better still.
 
Cucking Funt said:
Absolutely bombed at the box office, killing off any prospect of any further instalments. I believe they were going to make Horse Under Water next which could have been interesting. Anyway, Ken Russell made it too weird, and it was poorly cast overall, even Colonels Stok and Ross unable to rescue it. It had some curiosity value as the actress who played Anya (Francoise Dorleac, Catherine Deneuve's sister) was killed in a road accident shortly after it was made. Funeral in Berlin much better and Ipcress File better still.
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I was trying to think who the girl was that's very sad.

I didn't know it was Ken Russell but the photography particularly in Finland stood out for me.

The more bonkers it was the more it mirror's the current situation imo.

And Colonel Stock a great character.

😎
 
steeleye20 said:
I was trying to think who the girl was that's very sad.

I didn't know it was Ken Russell but the photography particularly in Finland stood out for me.

The more bonkers it was the more it mirror's the current situation imo.

And Colonel Stock a great character.

😎
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Also, the voice of the Brain is Donald Sutherland, who also appears in one scene with one line.
 
Ipcress is on Iplayer right now. It may be me but there are no real stars now in the mould of Caine, or supporting players like Nigel Green. One exception for me is Conclave which really impressed.
 
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