I’ve found that basically every topic I’m knowledgeable in is usually portrayed badly in most media. I imagine it’s the same most basically all fields.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books as over-the-top trashy fun. Then I tried reading Digital Fortress and I just couldn’t. I just kept screaming in my head “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!” and at that point I realized what art historians must feel about the Robert Langdon books.
Historians: All histories are fiction. Objective truth is illusory. Every narrative is the subjective product of its author and context, with no tangible bearing on reality.
Historians watching any film remotely connected to their field: Well that never fucking happened!
Sorry no, a screenwriter should know how a computer keyboard works, but a screenwriter wrote the 2 nerds, 1 keyboard scene in NCIS. I think they’re just idiots.
I’ve found that basically every topic I’m knowledgeable in is usually portrayed badly in most media. I imagine it’s the same most basically all fields.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books as over-the-top trashy fun. Then I tried reading Digital Fortress and I just couldn’t. I just kept screaming in my head “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!” and at that point I realized what art historians must feel about the Robert Langdon books.
I once visited the church in Paris that features in the Da Vinci Code. They were absolutely not happy with all the tourists asking about the book.
Historians: All histories are fiction. Objective truth is illusory. Every narrative is the subjective product of its author and context, with no tangible bearing on reality.
Historians watching any film remotely connected to their field: Well that never fucking happened!
So they’re right lol
The only thing that’s reliably portrayed realistically is things that a screen writer would know.
Sorry no, a screenwriter should know how a computer keyboard works, but a screenwriter wrote the 2 nerds, 1 keyboard scene in NCIS. I think they’re just idiots.
Yes, but what if the keyboard is in hacking mode? /s
Funny enough, rumour has it that that one was part of a contest to write the stupidest hacking scene.
Yep! It’s known as “The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect”.