It's been over 20 years since Max Headroom was in his prime. He hasn't aged well. This is a promo for Britain's Channel 4's digital switchover. It ran in 2007. More info: www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/...
"you'll be digital like me someday you know" I got shivers when I heard that, and when I think about it, I think he's been trying to warn us all along.
Probably referring to transhumanism, where people will replace their bodies more and more with cybernetics until only the brain remains, and the last generation of flesh-and-blood humans will create digital copies of their personalities to live forever in cyberspace.
@virus7g7 @@OtakuUnitedStudio In a Spanish journal of popular science (Revista Muy Interesante) from 1992, they made a forecast for the next 100 years until 2092. The final section was a small glossary and an entry that always struck me was this: _Cyborg: a form that some human beings will adopt in the future, replacing certain parts of their body with computer-controlled electronic prostheses that will obey the orders of their brain. The most radical, the "huborgs", will repudiate their own organism, they will be in favor of direct implants in the brain and will spend a large part of their lives in virtual worlds. Final goal: encode their personalities into a computer to overcome physical death_
And I for one am looking forward to it. We are the makers of our own destiny, time to self evolve and transcend these limited flesh bags and allow our brains to reach their full potential.
@@ALaughingMan books, possitive experiences, love, giving and self sufficiency is how you evolve. Thats how you level up in life. Transhumanism is inhumane and will lead to war and death.
The funny thing is, we can actually now make a very authentic substitute for a real person on a computer. 'Max Headroom' today would actually look 100% like Matt Frewer. Actually, that could be both fascinating and disturbing to watch a real-looking person 'glitching'.... hmm...how about a reboot C4?
The magic about Max was always how artificial he looked, thanks to that fiber plastic for his facemask, the contact lenses, and the actually CGI-generated animated backdrop. If he gets a re-boot today (like on "Pixels"), the CGI of his head and shoulders should look just like that, rather than actually looking realistic.
Since Max’s appearance is pretty much entirely makeup, he probably wouldn’t look too different if Matt did it again as “normal” Max. Doug Jones was getting started around the same time and he still does his thing.
Way back when, thumping a TV just so would reconnect a loose vacuum tube. Tube TVs were obsolete by 1985, replaced by "solid state" transistors, but the gesture was still familiar. Same thing as Fonzie thumping the juke box. So don't worry, I don't think it was meant as abuse, but nostalgia.
@@DistracticusPrime Even with "solid state" TV's, the Cathode Ray Tube had plenty of analog parts that could be sorted out with a good solid thump to the top. We had an old transistor console TV when I was a wee bab of 5 or 6, and it would occasionally totally beef it on the v-sync. One good whack and it would realign and stop scrolling.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Yes even late 00`s crt tvs need bump to get the v sync right,i miss old analog technology, yes it was flawed but some how it feeled more alive.
Max Headroom could be considered the great granddaddy of the YTP. His glitch, repetitive, and warped talking (including occasionally repeating things backwards) were inspirations for the "genre."
It is him. According to Matt himself as soon as he put the make up on everything came back to him. Which isn't surprising since Max Headroom made him famous.
I don't consider myself old at all and I was a teen when Max was brought to U.S.A. T.V.. The original writers have (a) script(s) to resume everything with. Besides, as a "Computer generated character" Max Headroom wouldn't age unless changed or self-modified. Max had access to his file, so...which was stored on Amiga computers (hehe). Amiga Computer was used to create his Background, and they are fantastic computers...even still.
Michael T I guess it would be up to Matt Frewer. Only he can play Max. And it would be easier to do his face with CGI than all the makeup and metal suit they used for him back then.
MMmm...Matt would be our preferred choice since he's the one that made the character beyond what they wanted. But "only" he? Many people said back in the days of Amiga that the computer could not be emulated when emulations were being made. Years later, and evolution and reincarnation being the truth they are....as well as voices being copied.. Someone else could be Max's voice. Get that done pretty well AND the humor and nuances then, indeed.
@@biblebadcopycatofcuneiform8210 The way I see it, Matt could still do the voice and perhaps some motion capture. He really hated his four-and-a-half-hour sessions in make-up.
Either that or someone in the dystopian future of Network 23 (probably Head R&D 'man' Bryce Lynch) sent Max into the future using a 'hack' Kung Fury Style lol
