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It's possible that the golden age of the movie computer is dead, anyway, slain by product placement – witness the glowing half-bitten Apples that litter indie flicks such as the recent Frances Ha, or the seriously uncool scene in Source Code in which Jake Gyllenhaal accesses Bing of all things (Bing!) on his smartphone.
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They shared their scene with my older, uncool, overdressed self in my quest for something memorable.
If the movie has sparked interest among 18- to 24-year-olds now, via social media, it is because that club scene itself has become home to the uncool, the leery, the drunk and the atrocious dancer.
As I discovered at this year's Canadian DJ Show in Toronto, there's still a rough-around-the-edges underground of uncool DJ culture, keeping it real on the mobile scene.
It was a total hoot, especially for people like me who remember how uncool computers used to be before Steve Jobs arrived on the scene.
And the scene where the kid pulls his hoodie over the uncool helmet that his parents have clearly forced him to wear is priceless.
Over the last decade, though, thanks to the bastardisation of its values via dadification (Kaiser Chiefs), ladification (the Courteeners) and indie landfill, the scene and its accoutrements have mutated into something putrid and grotesquely uncool.
In the currency of social media, black and white trumped color; pensive, vulnerable expressions won out; content about Hoffman's addiction was more relevant than that without; and a scene from "Almost Famous," in which Hoffman's character dispenses practical wisdom about being "uncool," became the video clip considered the most illustrative of his life.
And uncool.
How uncool.
Totally uncool.
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