Office and the Movies
It’s finally arrived, proof of the Microsoft engineer’s celebrity status!
What’s the first thing you see in the following picture?
(collider.com) (much bigger version)
That’s right, it’s Office 2007!
I always wonder what low level movie set intern gets to create the dummy documents which show up on screen in the background. Did someone begrudgingly type out a full page of numbers and dates? Or did they use some scripts to generate it for them? Did they drop out of Berkeley for their big break in the movie business only to end up as secret document creator for blurry movie backdrops?
If you want to get really nerdy, you can tell that the document was originally a DOC file since the string “[Compatibility Mode]” appears in the title bar. Perhaps they wrote this on Word 2003, installed 2007, opened the document and filmed. I wager that’s the case since the Office Button blinks during the entire shot, meaning no one ever bothered to click it.
Or perhaps this goes towards defining the character on screen. Perhaps Chad from Hard Bodies is so hard core he only uses the keyboard ever, thus never using the mouse to close, open, print or even publish his documents to XPS or PDF. Which begs the question, why does he prefer to view his documents zoomed in so far that they need a horizontal scroll bar?
I’m not sure what the Coen brothers were going for here.
