Showing posts with label science in sf films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science in sf films. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

What Really Matters

Here's Hendrik Hertzberg, writing for the New Yorker:

[James] Cameron knows a lot about science, but he's happy to bag it when necessary, as suggested in this colloquy, from a recent interview with a men's magazine:

PLAYBOY: How much did you get into calibrating your movie heroine's hotness?

CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.