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He stole 100% of it. Max even mentioned this when he was older and bald. 😂 Michael Jackson stole the coca cola look with the sun glasses from him as well. Only Michaels was black and Max was red and white
"I suppose a lot of people are like windows. So many are see-through, so many get smashed, and so many wander around with a glazed look over them... Are you like a window?" Honestly sounds like a pretty prophetic quote to me.
People can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say "He's nothing but a robot. Covered in make-up. Talks a lot of nonsense." What a way to talk about the president of America. That show really was from the future...
@@BruceAlarie It's my turn already again? I still get flak for Dubja. Folks, it was supposed to be a JOKE; ok, nobody expected you to actually say "sure, great idea".
"How can we make this guy in a plastic suit and makeup look like a computer-generated guy from the future?" "We'll just make the audio skip and loop." --The most clairvoyant men in the world.
Correction: the suit was fiberglass, the actor, Matt Frewer, was wearing foam and latex prosthesis, and the voice effects were achieved with a harmonizer.
This show predicted the future so accurately! In the age of video tapes, Max's jumping around and stuttering foretold the annoyance of a scratched DVD.
Looking at this I realize how far ahead of his time Matt Frewer/Max Headroom was, but I also see where Conan O'Brien and Steven Colbert stole their acts from.
Max Headroom is still the most realistic looking AI on screen today (I know he's not CGI) and that's the genius of it. This effect is still better than our CGI can do even today.
Yeah, that's the subversive genius behind it - it was just supposed to look like done with computers and AI, yet looks more computer-like and artificial than any attempts at making AI characters today. Rather subversive and ahead of its time.
An artist intentionally doing something badly is gonna do better than any businessman trying to do something well, because the businessman wants it for the money he might make off it, and aims to spend as little as possible so he can have more money at the end of it all. The artist, on the other hand, creates things for the sake of creating them, and so will spend all the time and money in the world making this intentionally-bad work of anti-art look exactly the way that the artist wants it to look, nailing down not only the "failures" of their imagined faulty artist, but also the "workarounds" for those "failures", the logical consequences of the "technical limitations" they have imposed on their work. Even when doing 'bad' art, the artist thinks of how their choices shape the result, while the businessman can only think of how their choices impact the budget.
Max Headroom was a epic fella back in the 80s it was a Channel-4 trial program that took the masses by storm,as he intervied the best he never cared a shit. Which was what so funny in his persona and for the early 80s amazing graffix...PEACE
What do you mean? It is a good movie, funny, entertaining, original. People are just salty because apart from the name it has nothing to do with the video game.
@@davidwuhrer6704 it falls into the " so bad it's good " type of movie. But, to each their own. If you look into the history of the filming of that movie, you would be surprised at how much bullshit went on during filming.
Troubled productions don't always end well, in fact I'm surprised the movie made its release date considering how many Producers were involved, all arguing with each other.
The concept of Max Headroom being an avatar that (more or less) infiltrates networks was WAY ahead of its time. I personally would be happy to have him take over the internet and he'd be a load more fun than Siri :-)
From the days when making Matt Frewer look like that was easier with makeup than with computers. I distinctly remember when he said "Why is it the only funny lines on this show are the ones behind me?", after looking behind him he said "I still don't get that joke".
@@davidwuhrer6704 The Internet has been around since the 1960's, it just wasn't known as the Internet back then and was developed for use by the military to start with, as a way of keeping basic lines of communication open in the event of a nuclear war. It wasn't until the 1970's that Universities and Academic Institutions used it, Dial-Up Internet existed in the mid to late 80's, but was limited and very expensive. It wasn't until the mid-1990's that the Internet started to take off, thanks to Englishman Tim Berners-Lee who created the Http protocol and basic HTML.
1:14 this is the joke I came looking for. But I also appreciate the one before it, "The government says the pollution is being caused by all the dead fish."
They're meant to be, apparently. AMC said they're rebooting it with Matt Frewer coming back to the character. Though that was back in July and nothing else has been mentioned. We shall see.
Listening to Max slaughter german was just so goddamn amusing. At least I as a german was able to understand it XDD "UND DER OBER BRACHTE MIR... EINE.... SUPPE! *hysterical laughing for no reason*"
“...And the waiter brought me one” is the part transcribed above, at least. The rest is something about dinner at a restaurant and what he’d like to order as far as I can tell.
@@jackhydrazine1376 3:10 Warum haben die Deutschen so eine hartliche Sprache? Das nun sehr [...?] Ich war in einen deutschen Restaurant, ja, und der Ober brachte mir eine Suppe! Hartlich is not a real word but sounds like hard in English. Einen is the wrong case and gender. Why do the Germans have such a difficult language? [...] I was in a German restaurant, see, and the waiter brought me some soup. It is not coherent, grammatical, or funny in and of itself. Max obviously knows German as a second language, like me.
@@odess4sd4d I think the reason why he randomly started speaking German is because he was built based off the physical stereotype of Aryan Germans and his program glitched
I'm a computer Science major, so I have first hand experience with computers and can say that most computers are painfully dumb, mismanaged, and most programs are kludged together with the equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape. That said, comparing Trump to a computer is an insult to all computers. Even the TRS 80 is smarter than Trump (and the TRS80 had no memory, if I recall computer history correctly). At least computers are an invaluable asset to our society. Trump would be more at home in the 1700's when you could own slaves, be legally justified in beating your wife, and could rape a woman and then have her punished for being an adultress. Oh, and you could be a fucking asshole and still be considered a hero (think founding fathers-most of which owned other human beings). Trump should really be banished to the 1700's to die of infection or dysentery or whatever they had in those days.
I’m a whole teenager and this dude scares me, imagine if he was in your house just glitching away. I’d be terrified! And that incident with him doesn’t help at all.
ya know, everything I've seen this guy in, other than this show, he was really good with lots of charaisma. Honey i shrunk the kids, an episode of Star Trek Next Gen.... Why wasn't he a bigger star?
Crazy how influential Max Headroom was on pop culture of the following decades. It really opened the door to the absurdist humor of Tim and Eric, as well as Eric Andre
Max Headroom character in his original appearance comes from a dystopian near-future dominated by television and large corporations. The AI of Max Headroom was shown to have been created from the memories of crusading journalist Edison Carter. The character's name came from the last thing Carter saw during a vehicular accident that put him into a coma: a traffic warning sign marked "MAX. HEADROOM: 2.3 M" (an overhead clearance of 2.3 meters) suspended across a car park entrance.
Did the editors of this win an emmy? They deserve the highest of honors for doing this. Today it is pretty simple to do it digitally, but remember this was film
30 years later. After being Japanese Virtual RU-vid anime called A.I. Kizuna. Which is the Max Headroom Virtual television shows born in the first place. And later that year, She is the born of virtual RU-vid internet channels in the second place.
3:01"Fan mail.................(munchin voice) Well I haven't had any yet"....(sour face) OMG, I just spit my drink all over the kybrd. 30yrs ago I did the same thing all over my Atari that was sitting on the floor. To Fr Fr Frickin funny.
To think people actually thought he was Computer Generated. Also he is supposed to be a satire of the smarmy middle class American talk show host...... which explains why Americans fell in love with him. Because of course they did.
ZeDoggomensch CGI would imply that the image was GENERATED on a computer. Well, the backgrounds are, Max Headroom is not. It's Matt Frewer in heavy makeup, he then was obviously digitized, color space reduced and the video along with the audio recut to achieve that digital stuttering.
The light, the not so constant frame rate and the low poly-look really sells the idea of this being "computer generated" Either the visual artists knew their stuff and a bit of the future, or this is one of the scariest coincidences ever
