Some graet points, and I just wanted to post a knee jerk reaction
With the advent of 'better than life' movies, will we become more and more frustrated when the latest blockbuster dosent out do the last blockbuster?
There is something more rewarding about the brain accepting limitations in the on screen world, purely to immerse itself in the story. I think its been called 'suspension of disbelief' ie we are clever enough to work out its a rubber monkey climbing a model Empire State building, but we agree with the filmaker not to reject what we see because we want to hear the story.
In modern filmaking we see something that may be perfectly computer generated but our brain instantly rejects it because we know its fake - and thus our willingness to follow the story expires. This is a change in how we accept films, and it may be because, as you say James, the effect has become the draw not the story.
So how real do we need these things to be? Are realism and fantasy incompatible? Will we all one day simply plug in and become superheroes ourselves, and if we do, whats so super about that?
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