Murray, Charles J. "WEB LOG - Readers Pick the Best and Worst Tech Movies - Readers say engineers are not often the central character in science/engineering movies and that's just plain wrong." Design News Vol. 63, no. 5, 2008: 10.
In this short editorial article, Murray presents the results of a reader survey regarding the best and worst science and engineering movies of all time. Movies such as “2001: A Space Odyssey, “ “Frequency,” and ”Real Genius,” amongst others were cited as some of the best technical films. On the other hand, the films “Armageddon” and “The Day After Tomorrow” were considered to be two of the worst.
Most readers also complained about the lack of engineering representation in central roles, with movies such as “The China Syndrome” and “No Highway in the Sky” as a couple of notable exceptions.
This article, a simple editorial in an engineering trade magazine, is not particularly valuable as a source for my research project. However, it does highlight a couple of issues that relate to my research question. According to the survey respondents, not only are engineers not particularly well represented movies, but the technology itself is generally inaccurate as well. Now, I do think that most people understand that much of the technology shown in movies isn’t actually real, but it may not be as obvious as to what technology is real, and what is Hollywood magic. This does not help give the public an accurate view of engineers and what they do.
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