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Does Hollywood make things unbeknown to us seem too real or are they documenting truth? There are many movies based on science –sorta- and others that are just ridiculous. Comment on this citing movie examples. How are we to take this Hollywood “business”?
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Hollywood will always remain Hollywood. They dont create movies/documentaries to educate us, it is still mostly about the business for them. Ofcourse there are some movies which portray torical events, philisophical ideas, interesting predictions and positivly influential shows, but it tends to be more about the entertainment of hazardous events or the ironic portrayal of hilarious everyday problems. They will awlways twist the truth into something a bit more exciting, an ounce more of laughter or a extra scream of horror. Teachers (Mr. Pennypacker) sometimes thank the movies/vieogames for atleast giving us the names of major figures, notable events or important decisions/contracts but it is never or at the most selom (unless in documentaries) that the Visual/Electronic Entertainment Department will grant us the entire truth, because thats not what its about, its about attracting viewers and you dont do that with documentary shows, or atleast thats what Hollywood thinks :)
those r just my thoughts...
-DJ
some movie examples could be the classic cowboy movies (relating to eEnglish class now, American Literature).
"the poor starving white settlers arrived on the beaches and build with their last energy their log-cabins while trying to fight off the cougars, untill the horrible, merciless, and cruel indians came and shot arrows through their heads and butchered every whiteman there was until the heroic cowboy came and saved them all... atleast thats how the books were written.
Hollywood is a commercial organization, and they want to make money. Producers or directors may try and exaggerate or 'tweak' things in real life for the purpose of making their movie make sense and be more interesting. Sometimes, factually accurate movies are made, but for the most part, they're never completely true. As a result of this, I find that movies very often distort our understanding of our world when we are introduced to something new through a movie. For example, some movies may portray cavemen living alongside dinosaurs, and that may lead some children to believe that humans existed when dinosaurs did. I can't really think of much else right now but you all know what I mean.
As for this intro for the movie Armageddon, it is made in the perspective of one of many theories. The fact that dinosaurs were wiped out by a "piece of rock just 6 miles wide," well... isn't a fact. We don't know whether this is true or whether it was because of an ice age, volcanic eruptions, or whatever other theories there are out there. This may cause a problem by making people believe in one thing as they grow up, and then suddenly hear about dinosaurs being wiped out by a global ice age and they might think, "But I thought a meteor killed them," and then become confused and have to reorganize their knowledge on this extinction. So movies can confuse people or cause them to believe in the wrong thing. If something is completely untrue, I guess it has less of a chance of doing this to the audience because its easily intelligible that its wrong. But small 'tweaks' are what cause people to miscomprehend things.
Nonetheless I love movies and I don't care whether they are accurate or not, and I'm pretty sure most other people don't either. But I suppose it can still be an issue.
I agree with what both dj and yongnak said. Hollwywood is very into just trying to make money no matter which way th route takes them. But i also can't help thinking that it is through thm that we sometimes question the future.
Usually people wouldn't think much about the day of Armageddon or if they do it's through a religious perspective.Movie such as this and also 'the day after tomorow' in a way opn our minds. It makes us inquir if something like that could rally happen to us whilst we were still alive. What stipulations would there be and whta would we humwns do, or be capable of doing in order to survive. It is these kinds of questions that inspire people to think out of the box. It is also these questions that shall remain a mystery and might continually alude us and by doing so will be more alluring.
i belive that in these movis there is sometimes a grain of truth that is manipulatd ti the will of the director.It is through this grain that the movie is developred. yes, the trith shall be exagerated to astronomical proportions to th point that it will seem mere fantasy but the truth is present none the lee. We don't know if a huge meteor shall hit the earth with the power of 1000 nuclear weapons and bring about an ice age and thus ending the world. What we do know however is that the world can not llast forever and one day it will be destroyed as is ussually nature's course of things. we know some of the facts and so it is up to us to use our imaginations,twisted or not, to try and predict the future. It is through this that hollywood tries to make its money.As long as the phrase 'what would happen if...' remains in our vocabulary, hollywood will also.
Most Hollywood movies are not for education, they mostly are foe entertainment. Of course there are a few based on true stories (which still are not completely true). Many science movies are just made up though they may have a little bit of truth in them, but they are called science fiction because they are fiction.
I too agree with Dj and Yongnak that Hollywood movies are just made for money. But some are not just for that. Some movies actually have useful purposes. Some are to inform people about something or to get people to understand something. Of course those movies too are exagerated, but that is what most people find interesting. Because if you were to watch only the facts it would seem like a documentary.
So what i mean to say is you can't just catagorize all Hollywood movies and say all the directors, producers, actors...etc want is money becaue different movies have different purposes.
oes Hollywood make things unbeknown to us seem too real or are they documenting truth? There are many movies based on science –sorta- and others that are just ridiculous. Comment on this citing movie examples. How are we to take this Hollywood “business”?
This is really just another Hollywood movie... A six mile wide rock can not cause the entire earth to be blanketed in a thick layer of dust that can not be penetrated by the sun in 1000 years. Not that i am an expert, but a six mile wide rock is not very big, and a 1000 years before the sun gets through... I am sure this could be a great movie, but they are taking a possible event and blowing it up to ginormous proportions so that the movie is of some interest to the public. If they portrayed the events like they might actually happen, the movie would be a flop. Not all movies are like that however. Historical movies show actual events and actual lives of people, although all the boring parts are cut out to shorten the movie and to keep it interesting. There is not problem in watching movies, just be careful of what you believe. If you are wondering whether something that happened in a movie is true or false, check it out on the internet, although the internet can give completely inaccurate information... Oh my gosh, where are we to get the truth?
I think that Hollywood always has to come up with an idea that is captivating enough to influence hundreds and millions of people to watch the movie, whether it can happen or not. For example, in Die Hard 4, a team of hackers hacks into every part of America (socially, economically, traffic lights, etc.) and causes nationwide mayhem. Now, where this might not happen in real life because of extreme security, it is still a really captivating idea. Many good movies in Hollywood have been historically accurate and have told of events unbiasedly in a true way. For example, The Devil's Arithmetic tells of the Holocaust and what life in the concentration camps was like for Jews. But others, like 300 make a huge spectacke and make up imaginary events to make something seem cooler. In Armageddon, of couse, no one knows how the Earth got destroyed, but the theory at the beginning might be the one that most scientists agree upon. This Hollywood business is mixed. Sometimes, you can really find movies with a really good message and sometimes you can find ones that are very interesting, but most of the really high-grossing movies are filled with stupid humor, macho action scenes, dramatic story-lines, horrific deaths, and made up stuff about world crises or aliens. It all depends on you what you make of Hollywood, just as it depends on what you make of music.
Hollywood is a very tricky bussiness, it can make you belive alot of stuff, but science maybe not i mean some movies like mission to mars ,showed what some ppl thought like with that face freature on mars like maybe its real but we don't know , and it can make kids go psyco somthimes by showing soem pretty werid stuff.
so in conclusion i think the hiollywood bussiness sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and will rarely educate us, but it's still nice to wonder or think about these things.
I agree with a lot of what DJ says. There are movies that protray alot of realistic events and scientific situation but that doesnt change the fact that its the hollywood BUISNESS, and they wanna make some money! and the way to make that money si through generating more interest and a more interesting movie. I am not saying that it is not interesting to wacth a documentary that teaches you about a specific scientific idea, but that doesnt mean that you want to go and pay a movie ticket and sit there with u poopcorn and watch it. The movies u watch at the theatre have to evoke emotions and experiences that a documentary probably wouldnt do. The things Hollywood changes and the tiwsts they make are there so they make money!
From this video, I think that Hollywood is not basically telling the truth but gives us ideas of what could happen. Maybe it will, maybe not. Who actually knows? Even Scientifics are not sure about it so I think that Hollywood is just giving ideas about the future. They make people dream and this is what we are all looking for. Business is business!! Is it for money? Sure it is. And again this is what we are all looking for.
as everyone said, hollywood is hollywood. entertainement for profit. they will change the truth, exagerate, or invent. even the voice was dramatic. however sci-fi movies such as this one, historical or political/police thrillers have a base of truth under them. a starting step were the writers began their brainstorming. Movies like Die Hard 4.0, The Mummy series, and more have a base of truth around them. I'm confident that a country as succesful and as vast as the united states must have many of its service automated by computers, wheter or not u can hack into them and cause chaos is yet to be proven. in the mummy most of the stuff about resurrection and all that was for the show, BUT alot of the historical content in there was true. i agree with yong nak that the closer the movie is to the truth the more likely it will be appealin ( for example in The Dark Knight, batman is obliged to change his armor to move easier, thus making him more vulnerable to bullets, cuz bullets bouncing off him like he was superman was kinda getting boring.) and movies that are 100% made up always have relation to real life situation to make them interesting to the general public. how are we supposed to take hollywood?? Like we have been taking it for the past couple decenies, we watch their movies, we love or hate them, but we dont go home believing everything we saw.
NOTE TO TARA: you shouldn't under estimated the power of a 6 mile wide asteroid, because you don't know enough about it to consider it false. for example what its made of, what is inside (wheter is volatile material) or even how fast it hit the planet. so ye there is my point.
Hollywood will blow things out of porportion to sell movies. The movie Armaggedon was a very good movie, but as everybody can see the intro of the movie does not have accurate facts. Now, if you go to a encyclopedia and read what actually happened when the asteroid hit, ITS GOING TO BE BORING. Personaly i would much rather listen to the guy in the video tell the story with a few twists, rather than listen to bill Nye the science guy give me some boring info. That's how Hollywood attracts suckers like me to go watch the movies they advertise, and as tara said some are good and others are just ridiculous. The fact that Hollywood does this makes some people hate some movies, because it has negative affects on the youth and those who know nothing of the subject. Then those people go out and spread false info, or sometimes they get embarassed because they are telling someone who knows allot of the subject rubbish. Then visual enhancements come into play, when i watch the intro it looks like somebody torched the earth with a flamethrower, now we dont know what it looked like but come on that was a bit over the top, yet again that attracts people. Last summer i went to the my house in the US as always, and then there was a preview of a movie called "The Happening" the preiveiw looked so cool and i thought there would be monsters and things in it, but it turned out to be about trees sending a spray in the air making people kill themselves....BORING!! that was an example of digital enhancements to attract the simnple American. My final analysis is that hollywood should keep doing what its doing because it is a form of unchallenged entertainment....DARE TO DISAGREE!!
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Hollywood is and will always be just an entertaining business. Since it is a business its primary goal is to make money. However the money that hollywood makes comes from entertaining. As long as they entertain us they don't care if it is the truth that they tell us or not so I think some of the movies are documenting truth but those movies that are documenting about the truth might still be changed a litle bit to be made more interesting. Obviously other movies are probably unreal. I think we should look at the movies because it still teaches us a minimum of things and then later on we can relate and learn more or try to understand about those things more. I also think that we shouldn't beleive everything we see on tv because even though tv never lies it sometimes bends the truth
Franck
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