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Favorite Film Scientists?
theodp asks: "From Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Wallace the Engineer in last year's Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Slate notes that scientists have long been a staple of the movies. So who are some of the more memorable scientist characters from your movie-going?"
A: Q.
Not only was he sexier than Bond, he was the inventor of all the cool gadgets we saw in the movies.
Favorite Mad Scientist?
Winner: Dr. Evil
Favorite Scientist?
Winner: Einstein
I'll agree with that, provided you are reffering to his role in Jurassic Park as a mathmatician specializing in chaos theory, and not that Independence Day crap.
Screw both of 'em. The Fly.
The first character that came to my mind was New Jersey - the newest associate of Buckaroo Banzai!RTF Novel.
Page 53 of the hardback (2 pages into Ch. 3, "White Noise", it describes Ellie sitting beside the billion-channel signal analyser and also using headphones to listen to a couple of channels at a time. And knowing it was futile to imagine she could find a signal in a few that the computer monitoring the billion could not, "but it gave her a modest illusion of utility".
Subsequent paragraphs make it clear she's also fooling around with different listening patterns - two narrow-band frequencies against each other in different earphones, two planes of polarization, etc - to hone her own ideas of what a pattern recognition approach might be. And also because one often hears pleasant "patterns" in the noise. (Sagan gets poetic here about stars that sing and glissandos of sound.)
It was a very nice evocation of the drives and thinking patterns of the curious scientist at work - poking around in the data personally, kicking it from every angle.
Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) from "Real Genius".
Too often, smart people are portraied as humorless drones, when a good sense of humor is usually a mark of intelligence.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
Plus it has some great one-liners http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes One of my favorite 80's flicks.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
both movies are rather contemporary, but I just loved both Val Kilmer as "Chris Knight" in "Real Genius" and Christopher Lloyed as Emmett Brown from "Back to the future".
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Instant win.
Come on, what other scientist has:
1) Been through the Stargate thousands of times
2) Fired a wide variety of weapons
3) Wiped out several hostile species
4) Saved the world countless times
5) Been into space on a regular basis
6) Been cloned several times
7) Worked with Jack O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c
8) Blown up a sun
And too many more things to count...
Plus, she's damn sexy.
Goten Xiao