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
The official Web site:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/
The teacher's guide (PDF file) has a number of pages devoted to
Europa.
Larry
- Original Message -
From: Mark
Schnitzius
To: europa@klx.com
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:12
AM
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
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).
http://www.sciflicks.com/2010/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/
At least Aliens of the Deep will make folks aware of Europa and the wider
Hopefully such a film will only increase the public's interest in and
demand to see Europa up close. If a generation of Mars sci-fi led to the
Viking missions, let's hope Cameron kicks off something similar for
Europa.
I'm sure it will be full of hideous errors, like, oh I don't know, an
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