Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA02436 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:34:04 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745F12@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Mooning Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:14:28 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Did you hear that some FX company in the US has been banned from making fake
money for movies, after a scene like you're describing for Rush Hour 2 was
shot, with the fake money being grabbed by people watching the filming, and
then successfully spending the fake notes!
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> From: Chris Taylor
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:39 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Mooning
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> > Is this an example of a more general type of behavior?
> > Once someone breaks a taboo (temporarily) as a provocative
> > act of defiance. Its observers and bystanders, perhaps en masse,
> > imitate the actor and as such break the taboo as well.
> > A memetic avalanche effect by means of taboo-breaking?
>
> Good call - it's like those frenzy scenes in films where a bag of money
> has been cast to the four winds, then someone starts grabbing (money
> that isn't theirs) and soon everyone dives in. The opposite would be
> where thirty people watch someone drown without moving, because everyone
> held the belief that someone else (presumably better suited than them)
> would do something.
>
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