Re:Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers?
by msla on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:19PM
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> Because almost all “hacking” is boring, and/or conceptually dense and/or non-cinematic.
Similarly, has any show ever portrayed writing accurately?
Any kind of writing. Screenwriting. Doesn't matter. It's the same problems as you list there: The actual act of putting words in order is determinedly, obstinately non-cinematic.
It can't be unfamiliarity, given that writers are writing those scenes, so it has to be the simple fact training a camera at someone staring into space and/or working quietly is a dumb idea in a visual medium.
The activities surrounding writing can be portrayed, the brainstorming and planning sessions and maybe even some of the research, but the act itself is way too internal.
* Rule of Cool.
* Because screenwriters typically have little knowledge of the subject.
* For the same reasons (the ones above) films and TV can’t portray lawyers or doctors or teenagers or police officers or drug dealers or scientists or bartenders or art thieves or Wall Street or soldiers or college students or anything else accurately.