Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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SofaShark says: "it's important that the tension is created to advance the story", and "computer geeks don't understand cinema".
on the contrary. there is a much richer and deeper drama, suspense, terror and delight to be had in uploading, downloading, network tapping and so on. its just that film makers either don't know, or don't have the ability to portray this in their films.
on your basis, you would only have the lowest common denominators to provide suspence and thrill in films. but no, many a time, films have been made about experiences and subjects that most viewers are not expert in. but they LEARN as they watch. they learn to appreciate someone elses experiences and feelings and perspectives.
i guess it depends on what you watch films for, its its jumping-screaming-and-fighting, then maybe not. if you watch to be informed, to learn, to taste something new, then of course viewers can be made to feel the same things that hackers do.
2 examples - did anyone see that documentary they did on Andrew Wiles's tortured proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Even if you weren't a mathematician you appreciated quite a lot of what a mathematician goes through. did anyone see that film "Ulysses Gaze" - it certainly took me on a journey of not-always-pleasant discovery.
a case in point - science writing has never been so popular.
computing in films -> it can be done!