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At IMDB.com, the 2006 movie Idiocracy ispresented thus:
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.500 years in the future begs the question about flags. Will a dumbed-down society be more or less prone to flag change than a brighter one? We can expect vexillological errors accumulating as designs get miscopied, though lessened creativity could lead to draber versions of our current colorful world.
image Eugene Ipavec, 08 Sep 2011
I recently came across a prop-flag for this film on sale, and it is described in the following manner:
The 25 stars on this flag are Carl’s Jr. logos, and the six red stripes (separated by five white ones) are made up of the words…Larry Moore, 15 Aug 2011The following companies are proud sponsors of the United States of Uhmerica. Carls’s Jr., Costco, Cavalcade, Flaturin, Tarrlyton, Ronaise, Buttfuckers, Nastea, Bonerax, Brawndo, Acne Insurance.
The stripes are actually rows of red letters: Some brand names, in the
Idiocracy world everything is commercialized, so I guess it’s even
possible to buy ad space on the national flag…
Mariusz Borkowski, 5 Aug 2007
The names of the businesses that make up the stripes on the flag seem
to be ones that are mentioned (parodied) in the movie; by 2506,
Costco’s [a warehouse store] apparently function as small cities,
Starbucks are whorehouses, and Carls Jr. [burger joint] operates
robotic kiosks that spurt tranquilizing gas. (I’m thinking there
weren’t a lot of commercial tie-ins.)
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Jan 2008
The flag is definitely 11-stripped, the red stripes consisting lines of text
sent in a very bold and typgraphically dark face, slightly slanted; its stars
are indeed yellow, perhaps a bit denser than regular, and 25 in number,
arranged in seven staggered rows of four and three stars each.
The settings of its use (presidential bike, its armoured bus escort, and
the Senate(?) speaker’s desk backwall) imply that this is the
2506 U.S. national in this movie. Gotta watch this movie to find the motive
for the number 25 (a half-brain version of the current US?).
António Martins, 9 Aug 2007
As there is no really good image of the flag,
I can’t tell if the parallelograms ought to be “kerned”
to fit the text on the lines (as in the image above) or if they should be all
identical, and the text broken up among the lines.
Eugene Ipavec, 12 Sep 2011
I hunted for better images on line but found only many (many!) instances of the same few images. See here, the largest copy of the one at the IMDb site. Anyway, this yellow-star and red-letter-stripe flag is seen in the bike scene, but other flags displayed in this movie do not share these features — adding to the idea that in this year 2506 flag manufacture is not at an all time best, which agrees with the setting.
I tried, but can’t find anything better than
this.
Mariusz Borkowski, 8 Aug 2007
Also, apart from the national flag, there are a few more
thing of note in the movie; in the inital courtroom scene, the judges’
podium is flanked by two flags, neither the stars-and-stripes. They both seem
to be (different) advertising banners with a single big logo on them —
in the future setting, ads are massively ubiquitous.
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Jan 2008
Sure
the
flag on the T-rex uniform is a regular U.S. flag, as this one is from
1945, not 2506.
Mariusz Borkowski, 8 Aug 2007
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