{"id":21379,"date":"2025-12-30T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/move-fast-break-stuff-how-tech-bros-became-hollywoods-go-to-baddie-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:37:18","slug":"move-fast-break-stuff-how-tech-bros-became-hollywoods-go-to-baddie-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/move-fast-break-stuff-how-tech-bros-became-hollywoods-go-to-baddie-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Move fast, break stuff\u2019: how tech bros became Hollywood\u2019s go-to baddie in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Stanley Tucci\u2019s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor\u2019s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset<\/p>\n

Between the slash-and-burn US government reboot<\/a> led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 has felt like peak obnoxious tech bro. Fittingly, jargon-spouting, self-regarding digital visionaries also became Hollywood\u2019s go-to baddies this year in everything from blockbusters to slapstick spoofs. Spare a thought for the overworked props departments tasked with mocking up fake Forbes magazine covers heralding yet another smirking white guy as \u201cMaster of the Metaverse\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n

With such market saturation, the risk is that all these delusional dudes blend into one smarmy morass. It felt reasonable to expect that Stanley Tucci might sprinkle a little prosciutto on The Electric State<\/a>, Netflix\u2019s no-expense-spared alt-history robot fantasia. As Ethan Skate \u2013 creator of the \u201cneurocaster\u201d technology that quashed an AI uprising then turned the general populace into listless virtual-reality addicts \u2013 Tucci certainly looked the part: bald and imperious in retro Bond villain wardrobe. But even the great cocktail-maker couldn\u2019t squeeze much out of sour existential proclamations such as: \u201cOur world is a tyre fire floating on an ocean of piss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nFrom Stanley Tucci\u2019s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor\u2019s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset
\nBetween the slash-and-burn US government reboot led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 has felt like peak obnoxious tech bro. Fittingly, jargon-spouting, self-regarding digital visionaries also became Hollywood\u2019s go-to baddies this year in everything from blockbusters to slapstick spoofs. Spare a thought for the overworked props departments tasked with mocking up fake Forbes magazine covers heralding yet another smirking white guy as \u201cMaster of the Metaverse\u201d or whatever.
\nWith such market saturation, the risk is that all these delusional dudes blend into one smarmy morass. It felt reasonable to expect that Stanley Tucci might sprinkle a little prosciutto on The Electric State, Netflix\u2019s no-expense-spared alt-history robot fantasia. As Ethan Skate \u2013 creator of the \u201cneurocaster\u201d technology that quashed an AI uprising then turned the general populace into listless virtual-reality addicts \u2013 Tucci certainly looked the part: bald and imperious in retro Bond villain wardrobe. But even the great cocktail-maker couldn\u2019t squeeze much out of sour existential proclamations such as: \u201cOur world is a tyre fire floating on an ocean of piss.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Stanley Tucci\u2019s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor\u2019s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset Between the slash-and-burn US government reboot led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 has felt like peak obnoxious tech bro. …<\/p>\n

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