2010: The Year We Make Contact, made in 1984, did a pretty nice job in
depicting Europa,
minus perhaps the chlorophyll (but ya never know....).
At least Aliens of the Deep will make folks aware of Europa and the wider
Universe,
and my prediction is while they won't get too "deep" with the information,
at the
least it won't be wildly inaccurate. We haven't even landed there or
explored the
ocean yet, so how can it?
Larry
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:49
AM
Subject: Re: James Cameron and...
Europa?
Sounds like the Europa mindshare problem is
almost
solved. No more "Huh? whazzat?" After this movie,
all
we'll have to deal with is whatever hideous
scientific bloopers the film
will inevitably foist off
on an unwitting audience.
The last (and
come to think of it, only) mention of a
an outer-planet moon in a major
motion picture
that I can remember was in GATTACA. The
protagonist's
mission was going to Titan. And that's about
the
only respect in which this SF instant classic is now
at all
dated. There's a conversation between Vincent
(Ethan Hawke) and the
real Jerome (Jude Law) in
which Vincent tells Jerome that Titan is covered
by
clouds, and nobody knows what's down there. Jerome
responds,
"What if there's ... nothing?" Vincent responds,
"Oh, there's
something down there all right ...."
Yes, there is, and Uma Thurman
plays a character named
Irene Cassini. The Cassini probe was launched
in the same
year the movie came out, so this can hardly be
a
coincidence. (If anything, it's just yet another wryly
symbolic
flourish among many in that film - Vincent
is all about getting to Titan to
see what's underneath
the mysterious cover, and Irene is all about
getting
at Vincent, to see what's underneath ... oh, you get
the
idea.)
Another connection for ya: the director of GATTACA,
Andew
Niccol, was slated to direct "Terminal" - for
which he'd written the story,
but Cameron somehow
got it instead - which is kind of a compliment,
when
you think about it.
Whatever Cameron comes up with in this
update of
the deep-sea drama genre, it couldn't be worse
than
"Sphere." (OK, you loved it, flame me now.)
-michael
turner
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From: "Mark Schnitzius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <europa@klx.com>
Sent: Friday, January
28, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: James Cameron and...
Europa?
"When the director James Cameron proclaimed
himself
"king of the world" on winning the Oscar for
"Titanic," who knew
that he also had designs on the
rest of the solar system? His newest film,
"Aliens of
the Deep," is a grandiose hybrid of undersea
documentary and
outer-space fantasy that begins on our
planet's ocean floor and ends many
miles under the ice
crust that covers Europa, the second moon of
Jupiter.
"
Read on at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/movies/28alie.htm
--Mark
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