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And Superman doesn’t have a place to change.
They made fun of that all the way back in Superman The Movie (1978)
Telephone booths were still pretty common until the early 90’s
I thought it was a weird idea anyway, since every phonebooth I have ever seen is see-thru. Was there a time when they were just opaque boxes or something without any kind of window?
No, but the windows were smaller, scratched and usually rather dirty, esp in nyc.
They weren’t designed for privacy. I’m guessing to was to protect against the elements.
Protect the phone, that is. Also enable you to hear and be heard. The clear glass was to prevent anyone hiding in there, for sex or drugs or ambush.
Supes can move so quickly he’s all changed and his work suit is neatly folded and tucked into its pouch while anyone watching would just see a brief blur. But he’d rather nobody bumps into him while he’s doing it.
What if you saw Kent go in and Superman come out? Wouldn’t that be slightly suspicious?
I think part of the appeal was, every kid was thinking exactly that. “I would be the one who figured out Superman’s secret identity!”
I like this explanation better than the official reasoning.
Enclosed ones with doors?
Around here they were all little nooks at best.
in the UK, yeah – all the way to the early 2000s you could get free shelter
Pay phones =/= phone booths.
You saw them in restaurants and bars, but the companies didn’t want the hassle of maintaining full on booths.
Right even the ones on the street weren’t “booths” they were more like stands. At least in the US.
He’ll simply have to jump into his TARDIS… wait, no. 🤪🦸
Superman almost never changed in a phone booth. He did it in two episodes of the old cartoon and the NES and Atari games, that’s it.
And the radio shows.
It’s gotten worse: People don’t want to phone with their phone anymore.
Some people. Plenty still do
yeah but the earth was a better place to live then
Well, the Matrix previously simulated a utopia but the humans still rebelled. Then, the Matrix simulated 1999 Earth.
The 1990s was the most peaceful and prosperous time in humanity. This is not universal, if you were in Russia, Rwanda or the Yugoslavia, but overall there was fewer conflict. Humanity as a whole was riding high on the end of cold war, democratisation, and economic growth.
a utopia but the humans still rebelled.
Humans will complain no matter what. There is catharsis.
Some might even say the peak of our civilization
Trin also slaps her hand against that phone booth’s glass milliseconds before being aerosolized by truck after the agents tracked her shit on a landline, making landlines just about (but not quite) the shittiest way to leave the matrix, but go on.
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If that were really the way out of the matrix, why would they let the secret out in a movie seen by hundreds of millions?
best way to debunk a narrative is to take control of it
Right. I have this conspiracy theory that the media and the government encourage UFO conspiracy theories so they can make them look nuts and crazy, so they are easily dismissed by the mainstream population. Same with the JFK assassination and a bunch of other stuff.
The payphones are still available in my country in case of emergencies. They were refurbished and less dirty than they were in the past. But funny enough, some payphones were converted as first aid stations. As much as our government can be deliberately inefficient and corrupt, they are good with adapting to changing times to keep some public services relevant. One thing I’m proud of is our postal service, which branched out to mobile network operator and banking to stay relevant.
Wasn’t Neo mailed a Nokia 8110 to use?
that was to communicate. to actually leave they had to have a landline.
We still have just as many landlines, if not more. They are just internet connections now. Probably even more suitable for connecting to the real world.
So true.
The matrix tries to coerce you so hard to have a mobile phone.
