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incentives
3 films tagged with “incentives”
documentary · 2010
Inside Job
Charles Ferguson
Ferguson trained as a mathematician and ran a software company before he made films, and Inside Job is built the way a systems engineer would build it: not as a story about greed but as a trace through a pipeline, follow…
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film · 2006
Idiocracy
Mike Judge
Idiocracy is remembered as a film about stupid people, which is the least interesting thing in it and probably why the film is quoted more often than it is understood. The narration frames the premise as a selection stor…
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film · 1923
Safety Last!
Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
The most famous image in silent cinema is a man hanging from a clock face twelve floors above Los Angeles, and it is usually remembered as a stunt. It is better understood as the last step in a chain of small, reasonable…
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