On Oct 3, Gary Flom wrote:

>You had mentioned being surprised that it was such a basic rule. I believe
>that to most viewers *any* SR looks quite fancy, especially nowadays :)

Filmmakers seem to assume that their viewers don't have any more technical
knowledge than the filmmakers themselves.

Another example: my wife and I watched "The Day After Tomorrow" last night.
The story has several people navigating in a bad snowstorm, and the one guy
(the nagivator) is using a GPS receiver. We are shown the screen of the
GPSr several times, and in every case it is showing the "satellite status"
display. This is typically what you see when you first turn the unit on
while it is acquiring satellite signal; it shows you what satellites are
being received but not where you are or how to get to your destination. No
one using a GPSr would ever be looking at that screen while navigating.

It was my wife who pointed this out. Anyone who had used a GPSr even once
for navigation might have noticed this error. These days, I'll bet there
are many times as many GPS-knowledgeable people than ones who can recognize
the difference between a simple and sophisticated slide rule, yet the
director or their technical advisor didn't bother to get this right.

Dave
(who is just catching up on the last month's messages)


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