(January 24, 2016 at 7:01 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: The Milgram experiment is known by pretty much everyone. Doesn't make good TV though, which is all this ultimately was aiming to achieve (incidentally I believe Brown has already done a show or segment about Milgrams electrocutions).
Glad you recognize that, although I'm not sure an imaginative person couldn't make decent TV of Milgram's far more realistic work. It's on account of what Brown did to reach his end that he never really reached it at all, wanking away into the field of entertainment while twisting the minds of real people. How many people do you think are going to watch that and say "if I wanted to get someone to do my dirty work for me, all I need are a 100+ willing people who I can trust to the grave with it, and several million dollars for the most gifted special effects artist on the whole planet"? What a crass joke! It's why I cringe when the more ignorant people here such as Ralphie call Brown's work a "public service", showing he doesn't know of the Milgram studies.
Anyway, when you begin a show with the promise to demonstrate easy manipulation of people, it should be that which you deliver, entertaining or not.
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