Hollywood has a message for scientists: If you want something that’s 100% accurate in every way, go watch a documentary. The thing is, when it comes to movies, narrative wins. The writer’s job is to get the characters right, not the science, says Tse, who cowrote Watchmen, one of last year’s most-anticipated superhero films. It annoys him, too, when things don’t make sense. He spent a lot of time and energy trying to find a fix for a logical problem in Watchmen--that one character, Dan, uses a completely obvious password to hack into the computer of Adrian, who is supremely intelligent. But for practical reasons, that kind of problem often just can’t be fixed. Maybe it would take too long, in an already long movie, or distract too much from the narrative, or cost too much to shoot. Writers have faced similar problems with the TV show Heroes. The series follows a group of characters that have acquired superpowers: one is invisible, and one can walk through walls. One little boy can control electronics with his mind, which is "completely scientifically crazy," says Joe Pokaski, a writer who has worked on every one of the show’s 76 episodes. But scientific sense isn’t necessarily the point. As long as things make sense to the viewer, that’s good enough, and it can leave the show open to carry out its real business: exploring the characters’ struggle to figure out how to use their powers. And don’t even get Heroes writer Aron Coleite started on invisibility. In a scene from the first season of the show, two invisible men walked down a Manhattan street, bumping into people and things as they went. Coleite says, "We spend hours in a smelly room arguing about invisibility." Questions such as: Does invisibility extend to clothes Should the guys be walking down the street naked "We’re demonstrating it visually. We don’t bother people with saying, ’It’s an invisible field around them that blocks light, and that’s why Claude is wearing clothes’," Coleite says. All of this makes sense when you consider that most of these writers don’t have Ph.D.s in astrophysics (天文地理学). "You asked if we had a science background," said Pokaski, "No, we have a science fiction background. The more you try to explain, the sillier it sounds.\ Watchman and Heroes are similar in that they are both ______.
A. about superpowers
B. science fiction stories
C. short of scientific logic
D. the year’s most anticipated
Higher education has a responsibility to provide a workforce with the design capability and high-level technical design skills to generate growth in (67) industries with the potential to support the UK’s (68) health. A Higher Ambitions report states: "Britain must rebuild its economic growth and (69) in the skills and competitive strengths that will underwrite a(n) (70) recovery and balanced future economy." (71) , it specifically calls for "enhanced support for the Stem subjects-- (72) in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics--and other skills that underwrite this country’s competitive (73) ". The exclusion of design subjects from Stem (74) the common nature of these subjects, (75) science in the employment market and the strategic significance of design as a(n) (76) to the economy. The government’s Digital Britain report demonstrates that the creative industries sector is in a good position to (77) Britain out of recession. Lord Drayson, minister for science and innovation, has said: "The next few years will (78) the UK’s innovation capability,and while the recession may (79) challenges, it will also provide (80) ." Britain’s creative practitioners are (81) high demand globally. The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (82) that the creative industries sector will grow by an average of 4%, more than double the rest of the economy. The Design Council’s added value research showed that companies that used design to add value to their products or services had a higher (83) than competitors on profitability, turnover and market share. De sign is (84) allied to innovation and is widely (85) as a crucial ingredient in maintaining competitiveness in (86) challenging markets.
A. return
B. budget
C. payment
D. income