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October 2, 2013
There was a phenomena in the 80s,
which I liked to think was a trend:
the movie that celebrated intelligence...
Everyone thinks of "Revenge of the Nerds"
when I mention this, and that's certainly
one of them, but not the best of the bunch.
My personal favorite is "Real Genius",
a tale of laser jocks at a university They wanted to film there,
strikingly reminscent of CalTech. but weren't allowed, so they
fell back on using photos of
"Real Genius" is a compendium of CalTech labs to design sets.
legendary hacks and pranks, all
slightly exaggerated (but only
slightly), with Val Kilmer doing
an excellent job of portarying a Richard Feynman is
man pursuing Real Genius, which is popular among physics
to say being brilliant in his geeks not only for his
field, and yet also being a cool scientific successes.
guy, living a real life--
Another good example, though
beyond "exaggerated" and well Buckaroo Bazai was clearly
into beserk insanity-- is based on Doc Savage (I used
"Buckaroo Banzai", and his to call this movie a
team of scientist/musician/ "cyberpunk Doc Savage");
adventurers. but it's got other predecessors
as well, such as the James
Coburn Jr. character "Flint".
DOC_SAVAGE
These had been no recent analogs
though, which was why I welcomed
this "trend" in an era that seemed
to lionize rambozos.
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