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:
It always amuses me when "geeks" get so upset over the depiction of computing in movies.
It doesn't amuse us geeks, who have our suspension of disbelief blown to crap when it happens.
Modern cinema's imperative is fast moving storylines with intriguing visuals.
No. Modern Hollywood cinema's imperative is -entertaining films-. I'd like to hear you describe how the Gibraltar scene in 'Das Boot', the buckaroo scene in 'Red October', or the love scene in 'Top Gun' are fast-moving.
I alos find it funny that so many people are willing to suspend their disbelief at sci-fi movies that depict faster than light travel, teleportation and sentient energy clouds but complain that computers don't work like that.
Disbelief is suspended when everything on the screen makes sense. Absolute accuracy isn't required. Only verisimilitude.
While it may be true that Hollywood doesn't know much about computers, it's equally true that computer geeks don't understand cinema.
Um.. what? It's not my job to "understand" cinema. It's Hollywood's job to entertain me, until such time as Hollywood pays me $10.75 to watch their pap. Furthermore, the very -problem- is that we understand cinema too well. See the posting about movie consultants by Mark Gruber.
It may be true that drama suspense and terror are to be had by a hacker, but you can't expect an audience to be engaged by watching an "accurate" depiction of the activity of hacking.
Why not? "Finding Forrester" was about a guy typing at a typewriter. They didn't feel the need to invent some stupid 3D expert system interface with naked chicks and F1 cars displayed directly into your retina to make it a good film.
ILBT,
Good Grief