Lucy, The Core, and scientific accuracy in films

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Some would-be viewers,however, have taken issue withLucys premise.

Even Luc Besson admits that the 10 percent brain power premise in Lucys pure myth.

But its never the same 15%.

I changed the reality a little to help the story.

This is where the combined skills of a films writer, director and actors come into play.

To Aint It Cools credit, Rogers highly-entertaining letter waspublishedin full.

The Core does indeed spin, slightly faster than the Earth itself.

The ridicule is all based on the assumption that the science is crap, Rogers wrote.

That assumption is unfounded.

Unfortunately, The Cores tone tends to work against all that scientific rigour.

Great storytelling is the difference betweenAlienandInseminoid, orE.T.andMac And Me,orThe Quatermass ExperimentandSpecies.

Yet both films are, for the most part, rightly praised for their artistry and hypnotic power.