Good to see

where you are using

Mars Polar Lander

he was right

about that right.

You should get there.

It was just like

there was

a way

to make

her.

There was a little over

a little digital people.

Yeah.

Thank you.

A good memory for a lark a rock star.

That was quite quite it yeah I'm
not sure I can match that but

I'll do my best as you.

I heard I'm not in the lab anymore about
fifteen years ago I decided to really be

more fun to write about science rather
than to do it and what I do is I write pop

science popular science and what could be
more popular than science are in media.

There's a lot of it on T.V. Still a lot
in books but a huge amount in movies so

I want to talk about Hollywood science
by which I mean how how we would treat

science and also how it treats you guys
because you guys are scientists or

at least many of you are or will be or
no sun so this topic is about all of us.

So let's start this way
if my remote is working.

That's the book The hard part was looking
at one hundred twenty three science

fiction films in about a year I was
burned out on science fiction but

now I've returned to that
kind of recovered and

it's an interesting topic because
there's a lot of it on screen.

If you go to
the Internet Movie Database and

check out how much appears there
under the title science fiction.

There's about one movie a month science
fiction movie a month since one thousand

is when the first science fiction flick
came out total of about fourteen hundred

feature length science fiction movies.

Plus a few documentaries and
if you know most about science just

biographical films pile picks and
one of the points I want to make here is

no matter how bad the science gets in
these movies and it can get pretty bad.

There is always a nugget.

You can work with particularly if you
teach science or write about science.

You can do something with that nugget to
turn it into a really interesting moment.

Maybe even a teaching moment.

So keep that in mind as I go.

Thank you.

Now I want to make the point that.

What I'm calling Hollywood Science is a
cultural force a major cultural force and

like any big forces force it
has its good side its bad side

there are some of the good stuff.

These films entertain beautifully.

They make lots of money.

And you can argue that it's high quality
released to science fiction films were

nominated for Oscars last year.

Avatar in District nine in them won but

at least they were nominated as
far as money goes out of the sixty

all time top grossing films twenty two of
them are science fiction also a little

bit more about that in my next line
to have wonderful special effects.

There's nothing in the world we
can build There's nothing in

the real world that can build an imaginary
world the way these films can and

Avatar is maybe the prime contemporary
example of that they talk about real

issues of science and
society like genetic engineering.

Even if it's science fiction
those issues have to appear and

millions of people see the movies.

So they really spread
science in some way or

maybe in correct science and finally to
inspire young people to become scientists.

If you scratch a lot of scientists you'll
find underneath science fiction fan and

from an early age.

Somehow they make people aspire to do all
the exciting things that they've seen in

the response in fact how many people here
read or watch science fiction regularly.

OK including some of
the faculty by the way.

So it's a pretty good number.

This is a real cultural forces that
we will hear some of the numbers.

This is remember the title of my
talk was Hollywood Science good for

Hollywood bad for science.

Maybe question mark.

It's a good part for Hollywood.

Money Makers Avatar made just under three
million dollars two point seven seven

two thousand seven hundred seventy
million and there are a lot of other

famous names out there making at least
half a billion points to another billion.

So they do quite well they're very very
popular with one of these films do badly.

Well they screw up science.

Sometimes anyway here on the factual
level meaning they just get.

It's wrong or a little more subtle
they show how science is done and

how scientists are in ways that
are really not very realistic.

That's what I mean by this statement down
here that they stereotype scientists and

sometimes the science gets so
weird that it seems that

Hollywood Science exists in an alternate
universe now or at a university here.

Everyone here has a beginning
it was looking for a degree.

So I've come up with an exam that
will give everyone here a Ph D.

you know how I would science
multiple choice three questions and

then a flash mob on
the screen in a minute.

Don't be shy.

If you think you know the answer but

how you would give the question
shadow right out OK you're reading

the most likely place for
an asteroid to hit the earth.

It's Georgia Tech you guys know
the answer or possibly a desert or

B. when I get this when
I ask this question.

The second popular choice is Tokyo.

But New York usually wins hands down.

After a nuclear blast that would be you

on the ball again total devastation or
total

devastation and

finally let's get into the exciting
world of bio nearing cloning can be

used to make an army copying plants and
animals but only after much time and

effort or be pets and
people even dead ones right on the spot.

So all these things by the way have

appeared in real Hollywood movies I did
not make up to be answers and I was.

The answers are the way how we
would like to portray science.

So you can make the argument
that Hollywood movies

I said before always have
a nugget of science but

it's often hype to done it correctly or
exaggerate in other ways and now I want

to show you a clip that illustrates
some of the things that's going on.

This is the movie day after tomorrow
which is about global warming but

that has a science very
nice special effects and

heroic scientists as an issue will
return to later so let me run the clip

the

sound a lot of the on maybe was muted.

I always start with the world.

That's a little bit over the top

though is the Statue of Liberty
had some trouble in the film.

You can watch for that and
half of the clips there I'll show it.

So with the Statue of Liberty and
the other home Mark is either

the Empire State Building of the Chrysler
Building in New York so watch for

the words as I go OK that was about global
warming is that really what's going to

happen with global warming
exit exactly right.

Exactly right.

Let's do the science score
scorecard Yes the majority of

scientists believe all warming is
happening it can cause violent weather and

do bad things to the ocean level it can
also cause an ice age believe it or

not because it diverts ocean currents.

But we're talking about decades not
over weeks so great example a movie

that has a nugget of actual science in
it but for dramatic dramatic impact

has to speed things up a factor of three
hundred maybe three thousand dollars going

to sit and watch a movie where the sea
level rise is one inch per year.

So I can't be too exciting and

this is the same kind of thing
happens in every scientific area that

is treated in science fiction movies
which is most scientific areas.

Assuming I have time I'll be
able to make the same point for

cloning for aliens for collisions from
space and finally the topic that affects

everyone in this room most directly
are scientists three trillion in film so

let's go ahead and
talk about cloning turn.

OK I'm going to have to.

On and on again in a second.

We'll go back to Jurassic Park
one nine hundred ninety three.

This one takes a little while
to let's get speakers only

for the younger people in
the audience that machine up there.

It's called the movie projector I don't
know if you've ever seen one before which

was great for me by the film studies
department at Emory so they had to put in

a little twist to remind us that there was
a time when all this was really on film.

OK drastic part

is

that loud enough I'll get

you

know say something that science
fiction movies don't do much anymore.

Actually give a lesson a small lesson eat

meat.

I'll stop it there but you get the point.

Remember the movie.

Yes I will thank you for mine and
remember this movie goes

back over fifteen years I mean everyone
in this room has heard about D.N.A.

for years and years but fifteen years
ago not not so very commonly know.

So this film told a little
bit about the and

then I wouldn't call it a high
level lesson but it set up.

And it helped make D.N.A.
a household word.

So it spread knowledge of this
new aspect of biological science.

OK I want to get out of that one.

And this just sums up what I said
the good science yes it's bad D.N.A.

bad science Well people have
actually found very old D.N.A.

But as you can imagine it's
not a very good shape.

So making a dinosaur out
of the probably won't fly.

In the movie actually damaged dinosaur
from an ostrich egg which probably

wouldn't work.

And finally John the portly fellow at the
beginning who saw him self on the screen

appears at the same age
that he really is and

of course cloning doesn't work that way.

So there's some good points in the here
and now it's a very good point but talk

about areas a little bit different because
other areas such as genetic engineering

there is some established science of
course we haven't yet found any Allianz.

So all you can do.

Maybe in talking about Allianz
in science fiction films is

to say there's no way to
describe seem reasonable or

unreasonable reasonable examples in the
film The War Of The Worlds which actually

came out in two versions as the Tom Cruise
version from two thousand and five but

an earlier version in one
nine hundred fifty three.

I'm showing you still from both of them
both cases the Martian invaders and

being defeated because they can't operate
very well in New York greater gravity or

atmosphere isn't right for them and
finally they succumb to earthly microbes.

That is a real concern.

NASA has sent out spacecraft and
what them back in the contaminated them.

With the worry that something
out there may be infectious for

us folks down here on Earth so
that science is kind of reasonable and

reasonable science Starship Troopers
from Robert Heinlein story.

So I'm in one nine hundred
ninety seven we encounter huge.

Now the bugs are actually portrayed
very well that's a great example

of the wonderful special
effects films can do.

I'm going to show you the trailer from it.

The quality is not too good is
downloaded from the internet but

you'll get the idea when we
turn on the big news again.

I I I I

I think that your adrenaline
pumping your dad right.

Who cares of the science is right or
not it really it really works and

the bugs as I said are beautiful and

beautiful and they're the most disgusting
looking things you could possibly imagine.

That's what the science
probably I need to do you know.

OK.

A scene I didn't show but the movie
uses those bugs are very clever and

they wipe out the series by
lobbing in space rocks and

I'm going to talk later about a coalition
from outer space that actually would work

as weapon in fact the U.S. Air Force has
considered doing that on a small scale

bad science it's unlikely that bugs
in humans can function under the same

conditions you notice the human soul
is in the bugs were in the same planet.

Apparently the gravity was OK for the
humans when they were breathing without

any artificial aid so it's all the same.

And of course the big issue
is the size of the bugs.

Now this is a great
illustration of the point.

I tried to make before that even
if the science isn't right.

You can teach out of it we
teach a course at Emory called

Science in film I have a colleague in film
studies we have a lot of fun doing it.

We both we both stand up and talk at
every light should really have a good

time with the students
in the film clips and

this is this example always nails the
students they really get it right away.

There's the bug on the top
as seen in the film.

Let's say ten feet tall quite large.

I went out on the internet and

found what looked like
the equivalent bug on the bottom.

I'm not an expert but
he looked similar and

what I'm going to do is
scale up the little one

to the size that we see in the movie so
let's say the little one is in.

In flowing in.

Where is an ounce.

If you scale him up and keep his innards
the same his density is the same.

So his weight has to go up
as the cube of the size.

So you go from one inch to two inches
to Q. is a sewage eight times is heavy.

He's just going to half
a pound six inches one ounce

fourteen pounds and
when he's ten feet tall.

He weighs one hundred
eight thousand pounds.

So if you took this bargain scale them up
you're actually have to feel sorry for

him because if you could flip a more
you could never get back up in

fact I doubt that he could stand his legs
simply cannot handle the weight In fact

if you work on the right hand column that
can tell you how much weight there is

per cross-section of leg and
that goes up over a hundred times.

So these parts cannot function as shown.

Now when I talk about this and
some smart student and

I do mean this is an intelligent.

Well maybe they're on a planet with
lower gravity and therefore they grow

bigger there is you just sort of internal
evidence in the movie their home planet

which is where all the fighting took place
as about the same gravity of the earth.

So you can think about the science
is going on and even using

internal logic in the movie to figure out
something really important about science.

This tells us something about scaling
wars and why bugs are big Why bodies

are small and elephants are big so
I There's real science in here.

If you think about it in the right way.

Now let's get to the target that
everyone loves big rocks coming in and

smashing up the earth probably
half a dozen movies in this.

Go all the way back to the fifty's
a movie called When Worlds Collide.

We were not quite here by a rock but
a planet swings by really close this watch

the crust what you see there on the left
is of course the Empire State Building.

Manhattan and ocean liners floating in.

And things that really got messed
up more recent ones are Armageddon

which spacewalk takes out of
course the Chrysler Building and

they send up a crew of oil drillers
to try to split the rock with an H.

bomb and give the two heads sideways
pushes so they've missed the earth.

And then finally want to going to
show you a clip from Deep Impact

also a rock hitting the earth.

It's only a kilometer across
we don't sound like a lot but

it hits the ocean and
when we meet bad things happen.

Now in Deep Impact I want you
to stay alert and again look for

internal evidence that will let us
figure out the science and correct or

not there are some clues in it.

We'll get the speakers on.

I can't quite see the music but
it is OK and it will start the clip.

You're going to see a projector again

and you also are going to see what we call
in the business the bad news a moment

when the populace here is that
something really bad is coming down.

However it's delivered by the guy you want
to deliver it really you caught a person

who could be better than
Morgan Freeman to give you Wagner's

Ring me.

To get a little science lesson
in this one to a brief one.

I'm going to stop it.

Here I'm going to show
you more of that but

I want to make sure we have time for
you to actually see the tsunami.

So I'm going to skip over the crew
you know all about the crew

their international there's one of
every gender one of every race.

That's the standard stuff including
a Russian guy right there.

They're going to they're
going to take up an H.

bomb and and
smash the incoming spacewalk into pieces.

That's the plan.

So they're on their way there heroic

I might have to restart this
to get to the point I like so

bear with me just a second if
you would just sort of do it.

Yes the Statue of Liberty

Washington Square in New York
if you recognize the

Brooklyn Bridge
the Chrysler Building on the left.

OK So a lot of destruction

very fetching going rendered I
would say let me get the sound off.

But the science makes sense.

Yes.
To a large extent it.

There are destructive spacewalks I'm
going to show you some examples but

let's just say now that they have
caused great damage they wiped

out the dinosaurs this movie starts with
a voiceover saying sixty five million

years ago a rock ten miles across wiped
out the dinosaurs and that's accurate

that really didn't happen but
then there was an air burst of an incoming

space right Governor Siberia one thousand
there wiped out hundreds of square

miles of trees apparently didn't kill
anyone because it's so sparsely populated.

But it took out forests and

finally the barrier of the crater
is a media crater in Arizona.

I'll show you a picture of it.

The damage shown is reasonably
accurate is that but

we had a way that looked like
it was a thousand feet high.

Did anyone see any internal evidence

to make a quantitative can we
do a quantitative judgement.

Anyone looking carefully.

How far in the way come.

Did you see the sign that said we
didn't you beach in six miles.

OK the wave came six miles inland
at least is that reasonable

turns out it is actually this film
is based on an actual simulation

a two astrophysicist at Cal Tech
did the estimated one kilometer of

rock hearing about three hundred miles
east of Cape Hatteras which is where

this movie puts it and they estimate
that the ways would come in sixty miles.

So the science is actually pretty accurate
what's inaccurate about the movie well

wouldn't do the job the movie Armageddon
gets into that more than this film

does it turns out that even the power of
the hydrogen bomb although it might split

the rock couldn't push it into pieces
apart far enough to clear the earth so

that it would not do the trick
the other thing that's inaccurate.

So you could do the math and actually make
a teachable moment out of this you could

show it doesn't unbelievably
does not have enough energy to

do it the other thing that is more subtle
is what in the eyes of this will happen.

Very gray the odds of a rock hearing
us go inversely is the size of a rock.

So it's a small rock some of
the size of a gram we have big ones.

Well the last one that we know about
was sixty five million years ago and

the dinosaurs can't die.

So this might happen.

Probably not anytime soon.

Let me show you some real damage
done by space rock just so

you'll know that this is real this
is the boundary crater in Arizona.

I visited this is not my photo but
I have seen it.

To give you a sense of the scale this way
everything on the right is a road and

the little white spot down at
the bottom our research buildings.

So it's big science fiction
our artists the rather.

Grizzly idea of imagining
what the same sized

rock made that whole would do if it
landed in the middle of Manhattan.

If you know you're looking at the Wall
Street nine nine eleven happened and

the big rectangle just above the center
of the picture is Central Park.

So the artists had the space rock
here somewhere around fifty or

sixty in the thirty's and that's the same
size hole that I just showed you out now.

Arizona.

It takes a good fraction of the city and
brings in enough super heated air that

it causes fires all the way east on Long
Island all the way west and you do it.

It is a serious thing this.

And the next interesting
question is how big a rock.

Do you think it took to make this so
it's tiny.

That's what they're.

Of course the reason that it is
that the structure of is not

the man asked because it's only one
hundred fifty feet across the size of half

a football field but
how fast it's coming it's coming

in at something like twenty
five thousand miles an hour.

You have enormous kinetic energy.

So that's why these things big
huge craters space rocks are real

things we've had some close misses.

With asteroids in the last fifteen or
twenty years.

You know by close I mean the distance to
the moon which by cosmic terms is close.

Not really do the point which is dangerous
but what this movie has portrayed is

certainly not impossible that something
to think about tonight is falling asleep.

Maybe now let's get
the scientists on the screen.

I'm very happy.

I have time to talk about this
because really an interesting topic.

I'll go to an expert in science
fiction movies you can be with

James Cameron after he made some of
the Terminator movies and amateur hour.

He said that Hollywood always
shows scientists is idiosyncratic

nerds are actively developing so
we scientists are really nerdy or

you know not too great a choice.

This is third choice.

Sometimes we're heroes that's very nice.

Why does a serious stereotyping
happen I have two reasons.

I'm sure there are many
other possibilities but

these are the two that make sense to me.

If you calculate how many
research scientists around us and

I just did a very rough calculation
a number of Ph D.'s produced the year of

the average research scientists and
came up with a number that a million.

Well about three hundred
million people in the U.S.

so out of every three hundred
people only one is a scientist.

The average guy who doesn't hang around
the Georgia Tech campus when the MIT

campus mammary campus has probably never
met a scientist and it's very easy to

stereotype what you don't know about
the other point is that so I'm science

fiction is not known for doing startle
characterization in fact the stereotypes.

Everybody not just the scientists but
we get we get caught up in that net.

And here in the scientific types just to
give you some examples over the years.

Some are met or obsessive or
even clinical you're saying upper

left you have the original Dr Frankenstein
in the middle is Marlon Brando

playing the crazy Dr Moreau that's
the name of the film from an old.

You are story.

Who's going to create a new
super human race to genetics and

things go awfully bad way.

And on the right.

We have the mathematician from a beautiful
mind who truly was Clint clinically insane

and we have evil scientists this is.

Gregory Peck playing
the very infamous not see

Dr Joseph Mengele that's in
the movie The Boys From Brazil and

on the right you have shown been playing
another nasty geneticist he clones people

he makes clones and sells them for
body parts really really about is evil.

If you can get in
the Bio Sciences I would say.

We have her our novel
scientists on the right.

The hero of the day after tomorrow and
the last in the white lab.

She discovered the secret to
cold fusion talk about science.

It isn't real but in the movie she makes
it work and gives it to the world for

free extremely No she does want
to make a dollar from it and

finally have the nerdy scientist on
the left is from back to the future.

Everyone's favorite science
fiction movie everyone loves that

movie the little guy anyone recognize
who the middle guy is with and

that's Prince Spiner in Independence Day.

He's a little nerdy year
than Jeff Gold who was

also an independent but Jeff Goldblum is
not exactly shoplifting either and film.

The guy in black and white is for
the older people in the audience are and

I'm not sure any of the college students
would recognize Him Who is that he's

a scientist and he's also a well known
movie star but from an earlier generation.

Terry Grant playing apparently an hour

in a movie from the one nine
hundred thirty S. bringing a baby.

And you know this of course Carrie going
to the very nice looking and smooth guy.

We put glasses on and
that all it takes to turn him into a girl.

It's just that simple.

I'm glad I wore my contacts today.

I think I have time to show you at least
part of a clip because I thought to be

interesting to see the original original
Mad Scientist even before Dr Frankenstein.

The summary from one nine hundred twenty
seven very famous movie called Metropolis

and actually put it in my book that I told
you about at the beginning of the talk

actually put it on my all time best with
that because it had incredible predictions

about where the world would be one
hundred years from thence we really did.

Well I'm going to show you
the scene where the scientist whose

name is about buying he's the guy with
the artificial hand in the picture

finds that the girlfriend is built
from the robot who's moving over him.

Doesn't seem quite feminine enough.

So he's going to do is
improve her looks and

personality by transforming
her from a real human girl.

So he's kidnapped a very pretty human and
is going to transfer her face in her

personality to the robot and I want you to
see the ladder which she does this it's

really interesting to see how the Invision
the science lab in one nine hundred twenty

seven also check out the scientist himself
is a little different from a scientist

scattered on I'm sorry that birds but

I hear it's a regular problems
will just be with you and this

is a silent movie but
it has a film score that was added later

and I want you to hear the music.

It's rather nice music it
really fits the moving of

course the famous director
Fritz Lang nineteen twenty seven.

There's the robot going to start of the
clip in a couple of places just to point

out some interesting features as we go
first thing you'll see is the face.

So the woman who kidnapped.

Now here's the deal there are wires going
from that house resigned contraption

to the robot that will turn her into a
facsimile of the woman lying on the table

notice what's over the robot's
head it's a pentagram and

also noticed our scientists is addressed
to somewhere between a wizard and

a scientists in fact even
more war of the wizard.

So this is kind of a transitional figure
in my opinion from a time when we didn't

exactly have something in the story and
then something different than it does now.

In fact was more magical to a more
modern time because you'll see some

modern after out of the slap to it that is
modern For one nine hundred twenty seven.

How about that lad.

Would you would you love to work in that
way as one of those curving shelves over

there on the right.

But also notice again every attempt has
been made to make the film as modern as

possible.

You see the spiral in the upper left hand
corner and the other ones on the right.

Fluorescent lighting which
was pretty new at the time.

So in the eyes of an audience then this
would have been really hot all for

modern laboratory stuff.

OK I'm not going to show the whole process
although it's fun but you probably

get a flavor of the way in those days
there was plenty of plenty of gossip and

interesting things going on behind
the scenes too just so there is now.

So the activist lying had been married
to the woman who wrote the film script.

She divorced him and married the director
for so long so I'm sure there were some

interesting hanky panky I guess she
just went she liked that arm robbery.

OK I'm near the end I want to
make a couple more points.

So please let me do that and then we'll
have some time to talk or two questions.

If you like the couple of thumb
scientists who are realistic.

I've asked a lot of scientists and

the star by far most scientists
think Jodie Foster is to

ready was trying to contact the most
realistic scientist has seen on film.

She's dedicated she's attractive but
she doesn't overdo it.

How much more time on I'm sorry.

Thank you.
I can be getting Sorry folks but so

she wins and doesn't other characters
who is not very well known but

to me he represents exactly the kind of
villain scientist who will even give up

his personal life for
the sake of assigned to science.

That's a mathematician named Gerard LAM
But when the movie Good Will Hunting.

Not well known but

I think it deserves to be I'm going
to skip the worst films of all time.

I'd love to talk about them but
I think we have time.

However I do want you to know that the all
time worst movie ever is the core and

I also would like you to know that
the American movie going public is smarter

than you might think is
this movie lost money.

It was so bad that people did.

To see so
justice some justice in the world.

But I'm going to skip this this is really
important point I want to make and

it goes back to something
I claimed at the beginning

of this talk that science fiction does
have the power to convey science so

I'm going to compare two films both
about global warming two thousand and

six Al Gore made a documentary
about global warming.

It is even on the boring side.

It shows photographs and
graphs and charts and

Al Gore is not the world's most exciting
speaker but it was meant to be serious.

You could quibble with
some of the points but

I think overall it got the science right.

That still married.

About fifty million
dollars is the second or

third highest ever for a documentary and
it also won an Academy Award.

So it did quite well.

How much money do you think
tomorrow Made hundred million

six hundred that's close.

So now please be sure I'm not using
the amount made as a measure of quality.

I'm just using it as a measure
of how many people we reached so

the day after tomorrow with all its hype
Ignace well because it was hyped ten times

as many people and it changed opinions
about global warming a sociologist

actually went out and studied it and he
interviewed people before and after they

had seen the movie and sure enough after
seeing it at least to the sociologists

they said we're now taking global
warming a little more seriously.

So these films can have
incredible incredible impact.

It's really a point I want to be with you
or anyone here is thinking about writing

a movie script I think you
are to keep that in mind.

OK I have some modest proposals for

making the connection between science and
science fiction that are this really my.

Slide so my timing is good more
have time to chat a little

the one movement is to
connect filmmakers with

scientists at the National Science
Foundation has a program doing this.

I'm involved in a program run by
the National Academies of Science which is

pretty high powered it's well
respected called The Science and

Entertainment Exchange.

It runs blog and when a film maker
wants to make a movie that has science

this group will suggest scientists or
scientists consultants so

that at least offered the chance to do the
science a little bit more accurately but

still have a good movie.

You don't necessarily have if
it's science in a science movie.

If you're making a point about science and
society doing something very important.

So a film that I love it was on
my ten best film called Garrett

about the future impact of
genetic engineering in total.

Now that has almost no one piece or
science in it and

here is very effective in showing where
the science might take us baby in good

ways maybe in bad ways I think
that's really a powerful use

for up to me I would

say I know that you some science fiction
films you had to suspend some disbelief.

So you could not do everything in
Star Wars or Star Trek without F.T.L.

travel faster than light travel.

Device time were here it's a no no no you
can't do that it violates the theory of

relativity to me it's OK for
the sake of the story but

then I really like it if
within that one assumption.

The rest of the film you develop logically
now I made that comment at a huge science

meeting in San Diego triple science
has a lot of international coverage.

We had reporters from all over the world.

And I just want to show
the media reaction.

Scientist I would please break only one
law physics proving I was in the sky over.

I love this one is if I had the power
to do this drive to my car I would have

the laws of science American
professor Sidney Perkowitz proposal

is intended to curb film
industries worst abuses.

Certainly they're going to listen to me
you can be sure my phone is ringing off

the hook on that one but

my favorite one was this one scientist
I would start making crap up yet

about why among the three
films that would make Einstein

blush one of the three was the core.

So the B.B.C. knew I was talking about.

OK Just two more points and
then we are done and

we get back to where I need to be here.

There are some wonderful film
science fiction films made

outside of how it works.

And they bring different views of the
science and of the impact of science and

society.

Probably most of you here.

So I destroyed the South African film.

Sleepy early may not have seen it's
a science fiction film out of Mexico and

the idea there is the U.S. so

hostile to immigrants coming across
the border that it makes them stay in

the Mexican side uses remote employment so
they can still work on the American side.

How is that for
an idea that covers a lot of science and

a lot of contemporary political
temporary political issues for.

Dark matter is a film about graduate
students in physics who are Chinese and

the problems they have in
adopting to American ways of

doing science in American ways of life.

I made the point that even the story

that science gives teaching moments and I
gave you couple of examples of the giant.

Sects in the calculation of B.H.
by not being sufficient

to divert an asteroid from the earth and
then here is my final statement.

I have a dream.

This is my dream.

One day we'll have a mad if thrilling
money making films I can proudly say

no scientific concepts were seriously
harmed in making this film.

Thank you very much

open to questions comments heckling.

Well I think the first thing I would
happen would be the same thing that wiped

out the dinosaurs only worse.

The reason the dinosaurs got wiped
out when that asteroid came and

sixty five million years ago.

It kicked up enough dust
to decrease sunlight so

temperature went down plants
didn't grow animals died.

If they'd hit a sandy patch that would
probably even be a worse catastrophe so

that to be really bad news is good point
that would so the thing that's most likely

to happen might be one of the worst things
that could happen to anyone else sir.

I think a lot of it is and I think
the Internet is even is even worse for

that because a Hollywood.

I how we were directed made does not
care about the science per se but

he wants to build a world that you
that you the viewer can believe in.

So who will make some effort
to make it look real a stick.

That's why the Corps didn't work at.

Broke all bounds of
reality on the Internet.

There's absolutely no filtering what so
ever.

So you can anyone who long for from a
Nobel laureate scientist in the next one.

Maybe from a nut and
if you don't know you believe me quickly.

I so I think that's a serious issue but
I don't think movies and

Cisco is the worst anyone else.

Yes ma'am.

I don't have

the whole list of my head I have it in my
book but I will make you buy the book.

BUT THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ever
anyone know that would be the old one.

Yeah the old one.

The new one crap stop
making crap up the old one

metropolis as as I said you know what I'll
do while I'm answering the next question.

I'll pull out my book and

maybe I can read the list you have
it with me now can't anyone else.

All right I'll just

pull out the book always carry
a copy with me you never know if I

can find it the two

worst already told you that the core
being the lead in the other

one is a movie called What
the bleep is anyone seen that.

Yeah all right.

This is chronological order all this

to newest it's actually not
passed in a special award.

So the Nano Metropolis thing from
another world one nine hundred fifty one

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL ON THE BEACH
anyone here know that the students

too good because it's an old
film very powerful Blade Runner.

I don't think you can match that for
a science fiction movie that sets a mood.

The only one that comes close
is one that came out last year

called Moon and we have.

I recommend moving it.

It really is special
drastic park contact and

I put a beautiful mind in there you could
argue it's not really science fiction but

the directed did something
really really hard.

He took a mathematical theorem and
put it on screen.

If you remember the scene in the bar all
the grad students are trying to figure out

how to pick up all these pretty
young women and then you go.

SHE Why to be the best strategy that's
actually the theorem that one that

mathematician and so
I thought that was special.

Math is the hardest thing
there is to dramatize and

then the special award was for
the day after tomorrow for

all the hype in speeding up I think it
really addressed an important issue so

that was my ten you notice I
didn't put Star Wars there

are these are great movies I mean
I enjoy them as much as anyone but

I don't think they really
build on science very much.

I think they're cowboy films and
in outer space at least Star Wars

is Star Trek is a little more solid
Hollywood Science in the bookstore.

They even have a signed copy anyone else.

Yes sir.

Right.

Yes Yes And

he's terrific on that and that to me.

Selamat end of that where things might go
and yet you believe almost every word.

So I think it's phenomenal.

I just limited myself to film but
Gibson does that kind of thing in books.

Yeah I didn't know.

So it's probably high time.

Yeah yeah

yeah really.

Strong enough about the earliest years.

For the fight to realistically
yes yes yes you're a seller

I'm sensing someone who's been through
the mill and hasn't forgotten Yeah yeah

anyone else folks I'm happy or
if people need to feel free.

If anyone wants to stay I'll stick around
as long as there's someone who wants to

talk to your.