Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:31:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Drive to make Hollywood obey the laws of science
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote

<<The proposals are intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses

of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the

suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.>>

>Of course, this might mean that directors and producers actually
>take 5th and 6th grade science.

The trouble with that is that 5th and 6th grade science aren't all
that accurate either.

I'd be more interested in plots that required the characters to behave
like human beings.  That would have prevented Star Wars The Last
Hope, but it can't all be good.

=Tamar