Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:21:15 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Drive to make Hollywood obey the laws of science
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but it's better than cartoon science (or Bruce Willis "science").
>
> 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.

Now, wait a minute - you're talking about plot, and character development, and
continuity... when has *that* last come out of Hollywood?

  mark
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