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February 9, 2005

Queimada/Burn!

Posted by digamma @ 10:24 pm EST

Having watched Queimada/Burn!, I have no energy to write about another damn film about white guys stuck in the middle of a colonial battle.

However, digamma.net’s crack team of computer science researchers has achieved a feat towards which the field has been struggling for decades - an implementation of Gillo Pontecorvo in a multi-platform scripting language. Without further ado, I bring you pontecorvo.pl:

while (!$socially_relevant) {

print “A bunch of stuff blows up. \n";
print “Boy, this guerilla war sure is more difficult than we thought. \n";

}

print “Colonialism sucked, eh? \n";

By downloading and running this program, aspiring filmmakers can create their own chilling Pontecorvo films, with guaranteed historical significance!

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