[Milsurplus] Is Fiction Garbage ?

[J. Forster]

Rehi,

I thinking about this a bit, I think you are going after the wrong target.

What most of the complaints seem to be about wrong hardware. This has more
to do with the producers, artistic directors, set dressers, and prop
people than the fiction writers.

I suspect that a producer or director just says something like "make it
look like WW II".

YMMV,

-John

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> No- the writers missed that swell idea.
> Instead, the German scouts call back to HQ using a PRC-6, back to Nazi
> headquarters which somehow
> has appropriated a spacious NORAD command center from decades in the
> future.
> Many scenes have
> herds of actors milling about like disoriented buffalo, shouting "Hurry
> up!
> Get a move on!" at each other.
> "Muevese!", en espan~ol.
>
> I admit, this should not surprise me. As others pointed out, what's the
> motive? To re-create the times,
> for our understanding and empathy, or to sell tickets as many tickets as
> possible to the carnival?
>
> Probably it's a losing battle, like when I write the New York Times about
> a
> rap music review, and I point
> out that most of artists and fans aren't capable of reading the same
> review.
> But's it's worthwhile, I suppose,
> at least to supply some counterfire.
> -Hue Miller
>
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