Star Technology and UIs on Movies: Entertaining a Diverse Audience
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
Multimedia, AV 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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Deux Ex Machina = Deus Ex Computer
by Anonymous on Wed 10th Sep 2003 18:31 UTC

I don't want to insist but as mention before the virus of Independence day is a "Deus Ex Machina". A unrealistic event that resolve the plot of a play. Typically on stage, imagine the hand of God coming from the sky and saving the heroe from his certain death. Mostly use in ancient Greek tragedy, is is - in my view - often use as an escape to force an happy ending in Hollywood production.

I can undertsand SofaShark that most of the people don't see this "Deus Ex Machina" as such because they lack knowledge to appreciate, and so the plot seems consistent. But if you know cinema, more precisely theater, you should recognize those and should understand the lack of finess to use such artifice.