Recent entries include: Uber’s Travis Kalanick in Showtime’s “Super Pumped” Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout” and WeWork’s Adam and Rebekah Neumann in Apple TV’s “We Crashed.”Īnd the distrust goes deeper than any Hollywood-Silicon Valley rivalry. And TV series have just as aggressively rushed to dramatize Big Tech blunders. “Ron’s Gone Wrong” (2021) also used a robot metaphor for smartphone addiction. the Machines,” a newly launched AI brings about a robot apocalypse. Kids movies, too, regularly channel parental anxieties about technology’s impact on children. Superman” Harry Melling’s pharmaceutical entrepreneur in 2020’s “The Old Guard” Taika Waititi’s rule-breaking videogame mogul in 2021′s “Free Guy” Oscar Isaac’s search engine CEO in 2014′s “Ex Machina” and the critical portrait of the Apple co-founder in 2015′s “Steve Jobs.” We’ve had the devious Biosyn Genetics CEO (Campbell Scott) in “Jurassic World: Dominion, a franchise dedicated to the peril of tech overreach Chris Hemsworth’s biotech overlord in “Spiderhead” and Mark Rylance’s maybe-Earth-destroying tech guru in 2021′s “Don’t Look Up.” We’ve had Jesse Eisenberg, who indelibly played Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2010′s “The Social Network,” as a tech bro-styled Lex Luthor in 2016′s “Batman v. India enthuses over Oscars for 'Naatu Naatu,' elephant doc Why antagonize international ticket buyers when Tom Cruise vs. The best-picture nominated “Top Gun: Maverick,” like its predecessor, was content to battle with a faceless enemy of unspecified nationality. Great movie villains don’t come along often. Looking north to Silicon Valley, the movie industry has found perhaps its richest resource of big-screen antagonists since Soviet-era Russia. Miles Bron is just the latest in a long line of Hollywood’s favorite villain: the tech bro. (With apologies to the cloud of “Nope.”) He is an immediately recognizable type we’ve grown well acquainted with: a visionary (or so everyone says), a social media narcissist, a self-styled disrupter who talks a lot about “breaking stuff.” NEW YORK (AP) - “A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”Īnd why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk.
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