Hollywood and Science

     Hollywood and Science is probably one of the least likely partnerships for many movie viewers.  While they can occasionally get aspects right, they tend to live more off of exaggeration than reality, but in the context of science fiction, directors give a glimpse of the future that we all wonder about.  For Hollywood, science is the future and what it holds in store for all of us.  Directors try to give an image of what it means to do science in these cinematic pieces by showing us the production process of the technology/science, or giving us a scientist to hook the creations upon.  This establishes some of the background information for the actual storyline, and makes the audience whole heartedly follow what is happening.  Typically the screenwriter, producer, and director get to name what the science in the story actually is.  In some movies the elements of science can be almost non-existent, but in others like “I Robot”, the uses, creation, and future of science is almost laid out for the viewer to appreciate. 

 For audiences of Hollywood, a truth that can assumed here is that most of what these movies promote as science will never be fully accurate.  Hollywood and its films will never be known for one hundred percent accuracy, because they will generally want to work some angle, and reality doesn’t always fit their agendas.  This is represented by some of their past attempts at portraying actual events like those of historical significance, which historians find are fatally skewed or flawed.  Sometimes in their attempt to show elements of science, Hollywood finds itself pointing fingers at certain individuals, and not trying to find the full story of the event that had happened.  This breeds an under-informed public, who tends to believe all that Hollywood feeds them.

Even with Hollywood’s flaws, they still manage to entertain our fancies, and promote our Era of scientific evolution.  This helps raise some of the modern issues that don’t always make it to the general public, and inspire the future science thinkers.  The only thing audiences should be wary of is the question of, what is actually true, in relation to science.  So, is Hollywood only exaggerations, or is there some form of a truth that we can take from their skewed opinions?

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Third English assignment, called a one pager, and why not Hollywood?  I love movies, until they are made from books where the director completely ignores the book's important parts.  Hope that never happens to me.