movie review
Oct. 7th, 2013 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"I found myself cycling between appreciation and cringing, almost in time with the action."
That sounds almost like me on Peter Jackson, but it isn't.
It's retired astronaut Marsha Ivins on Gravity.
That sounds almost like me on Peter Jackson, but it isn't.
It's retired astronaut Marsha Ivins on Gravity.
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Date: 2013-10-08 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-10-08 07:11 pm (UTC)But even with scientific facts, I don't really fault the movie (or TV show or novel) as much as I fault people getting their facts from what is, after all, fiction. I find it reasonable that telling a story would be a more major goal than getting every fact right. I love it when the artist does both, but I've begun to think that's very rare, and when I don't notice problems, mainly I just don't have enough expertise.
Finding narrative that compelling is a glitch in the human brain, but it's only one of many, and most people can become better thinkers if they want to. You can report the urban legend, or you can check it out. Or, third alternative, you can tell it just as a story, not as a fact.
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Date: 2013-10-08 07:41 pm (UTC)In the case of LOTR, where all the facts in question are made-up ones about fictional characters anyway, the movie expands on points that contradict the book but which, having come earlier, the book is not specifically concerned to rebut; consequently, they fill the new person's head from the movie and aren't expunged by the book.