Produced in 1975 , it was a futuristic film set in the year 2018 , it was later remade into less successful reboot in 2002.
In this film Corpations have taken over the world and have become the government. They allows and spnisre the brutal Sport of Rollerball l which crass between. Roller derby and other sports, the mass live and die by how well their teams do. The game is violent brutal and players can be hurt and even killed , it's a bit like a modern day version of Breads and Circuses . On the Houston Team, their greatest player is Johnathan E . who has become popular and has larger than life and, for corporate suites running the world, this not a good thing because in their minds, no one player should become bigger then the game because, that would become a threat to their power over the masses . So, what they did is try to force Johnathan E into retirement with the idea that once he's retired he'll no longer a threat and will fade into obscurity. However , Johnathan E is having none of this , since he lost wife to high ranking corporate executiv who desired her , he's got nothing else to live for but the game and, is determined to play no matter the the cost . But the corporation responds by changing the rules and making the game ever more dangerous to the point where teammates getting maimed , crippled and killed and in his best fried Moonpie case resided to negative state because, of Johnathan E's stubborn refusal to hang up his skates. This also begs the question of is Johnathan E hero the real hero of this film or not ? Would you rate this a as dystopian science fiction classic?
Thoughts ?
In this film Corpations have taken over the world and have become the government. They allows and spnisre the brutal Sport of Rollerball l which crass between. Roller derby and other sports, the mass live and die by how well their teams do. The game is violent brutal and players can be hurt and even killed , it's a bit like a modern day version of Breads and Circuses . On the Houston Team, their greatest player is Johnathan E . who has become popular and has larger than life and, for corporate suites running the world, this not a good thing because in their minds, no one player should become bigger then the game because, that would become a threat to their power over the masses . So, what they did is try to force Johnathan E into retirement with the idea that once he's retired he'll no longer a threat and will fade into obscurity. However , Johnathan E is having none of this , since he lost wife to high ranking corporate executiv who desired her , he's got nothing else to live for but the game and, is determined to play no matter the the cost . But the corporation responds by changing the rules and making the game ever more dangerous to the point where teammates getting maimed , crippled and killed and in his best fried Moonpie case resided to negative state because, of Johnathan E's stubborn refusal to hang up his skates. This also begs the question of is Johnathan E hero the real hero of this film or not ? Would you rate this a as dystopian science fiction classic?
Thoughts ?
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