I'll take plausibility with glee, but I've been proven strange in the past.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:06:17 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Sci fi: fantasy or plausibility, which is better? Here is an old question: which makes for a better science fiction film, a film where physics are adhered to ( plausible) or science fantasy, a film where physics are ignored? EXAMPLE: STAR WARS has ships banking and turning in space as if they were in an atmosphere, one can hear sounds in space ( laser fire, explosions, etc) when of course such things would never happen. 2001: A space odyssey has no sound in space, ships moving according to physical law, more emphasis on the cerebral rather than the swashbuckling aspect of the characters, etc. I like both, depending on the type of science fiction film/book it is. Omega Man and Last Man On Earth are both examples of the same film, another good example of reality and fantasy: I AM LEGEND ( Will Smith film ):I cant see a world populated by fast moving, hot tempered zombie people after the fall of civilization..it makes for a great movie, but not something that I would see happening in real life. But in OMEGA MAN, the survivors were plague ridden lunatics that blamed technology for the fall of humanity and demonized anyone that used machines..that's crazy, but it could happen, its plausible... Anyone else? -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail is faster and more secure than ever. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_1:092009
