ecd (02/16/83)
I for one, feel that "The Soul of a New Machine" would make a lousy movie. The book made interesting reading but a movie would be slow paced and boring to watch. John V. Smith BTL - Naperville Ill.
turner (02/18/83)
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ucbesvax!turner Feb 17 17:26:00 1983
Perhaps if it had been done ORIGINALLY as a movie, i.e., as
a documentary, by someone skilled at making them, it would come
off OK. Personally, I like that kind of thing.
I can only think that, in Hollywood, the idea of computer as
being the only "love interest" would cause them to introduce all
kinds of perversions of the original spirit. The worst thing they
could do with it is to "fictionalize" it - to death.
Michael Turnerdmmartindale (02/19/83)
Can you imagine a Hollywood movie in which the computer actually looks like a modern computer? I'll believe it when I see it. Dave Martindale
keith (02/22/83)
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hp-pcd!keith Feb 22 08:24:00 1983
Can you imagine a Hollywood movie in which the computer
actually looks like a modern computer?
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It is interesting to see how Hollywood treats the computer in the movies.
A computer isn't interesting enough just to look at because it doesn't look
like it is doing anything. So they treat us to views of card sorters,
tape drives, and crts that make noises like ASR33 Teletypes.
In the future, as more mechanical moving parts get eliminated, we will
probably get to see pictures of magnetic bubbles rolling over little
chevrons (with the appropriate sound effects).
It's easy for me to be critical, but the folks making the movies have a
difficult challenge. Just how do you portray a computer doing 'work' in
a ten second clip?
Keith M. Taylor
Corvallis, Oregon
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