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Posted by: Neil Coward at July 18, 2004, 11:23 pm
Topic: why does zombie movies have to be about zombies taking over? Forum: groupsrv
Arthur C Clarke used the following definition to distinguish between Fantasy and Science fiction. He said that fantasy is what can't happen but we might want it to e.g Harry Potter magic etc whereas Science fiction is stuff that could happen but we probably wouldn't want it to eg 'The Thing" - my examples by the way. So if in the Graduate benjamine was a robot, then yes it would make it science fiction. However it would be a poor sci fi story cos the fact that he is a robot is not at all relevant to the plot so why not have him as a normal man? So if you are just asking about definitions, I'd go along with Arthur C Clarkes definition "last bingo in texas" <lastbingotexas@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c531cab7.0407181101.ee5d683@posting.google.com... Quote:take 'the graduate' or 'the godfather'. change absolutely nothing but have the writer/director of the movie say in intereviews that benjamin braddock is supposed to be a robot or barzini is really an extraterrestial disguised as a human. would those movies qualify as sci-fi?

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