Clay Risen entertains the idea:
There was a time, not long ago, when every college male could be expected to have the same 20 or 30 videos in his dorm room (Godfather I and II, Swingers, Pulp Fiction); with the rise of online libraries and file sharing, who wants to watch the same old movie again and again? Who wants to even watch a movie at all, when YouTube clips, online TV, and multiplayer online games are equally entertaining? Of course, they’re not equally as rich in dialogue, and even if they were, they’re not equally shared by mainstream culture. Cue the gong: The movie quote is dead. …
It’s comforting to wax nostalgic for a day when everyone seemed on the same page, culturally, and seemed to stay there for months, even years, on end. Nowadays, a cultural meme is here and gone, gaining hold for a few moments, like a tenacious snowflake stuck, for a few seconds, on the window of a speeding jetliner.
(Video: The TV version of "these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane" – a catchphrase that was originally "a cynical late addition, filmed and spliced into the film after an Internet parody suggested it.")
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