Ridley Scott recalls his experience hiring 200 real skinheads to shoot Apple’s iconic “1984” Macintosh Super Bowl commercial. Directed by Scott, who was fresh off the dystopian sci-fi classic Blade Runner, the “1984” commercial debuted during Super Bowl XVIII and introduced Apple’s Macintosh personal computer. Inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, it portrays a dystopian world in which a crowd of uniformed, bald men passively watch a Big Brother-like figure ranting on a giant screen, until a lone runner, wearing a white tank top featuring an illustration of Apple’s new product, hurls a sledgehammer at the screen.

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