THE cliched internet billionaires on private islands in movies never went so far as to call for race war across a continent, audiences have observed.
Amoral tech bros, who replaced the 1980s slicked-back hair Wall Street profiteers as Hollywood’s favourite villains, usually intend to corner a new technology to hugely enrich themselves as opposed to openly demanding civil war.
Viewer Nathan Muir said: “Yeah, reality’s kind of raced away from fiction on this one.
“The bad guy buying an entire communications network in, I dunno, Iron Man 4 would have some clever plan involving mass surveillance and control. He wouldn’t just shout ‘RACE WAR!’ like an EDL member freshly released from HMP Styal.
“In the movies they’re smarter than everyone but the hero. In real life Musk doesn’t seem to be able to see through a fake Daily Telegraph headline created by a bigot from Bolton.
“Maybe there’s some long-term Machiavellian plan and posting total bollocks on Twitter is merely a cover to distract us all. Ah, I see he’s spending tonight arse-licking that half-wit who fluked his way to being president. So maybe not.”
Screenwriter Helen Archer said: “You couldn’t get a three-act structure from Musk. First he’s too evil, and second he’s f**king thick.”
