Hollywood Science is a general term given to the phenomenon of scientific principles being misinterpreted, ignored or abused by the Hollywood film industry.
The term has given rise to a number of television programmes which endeavour to expose whether phenomena seen in films can be replicated.
Read more about Hollywood Science: BBC Series (2001–02), National Geographic Series (2006)
Famous quotes containing the words hollywood and/or science:
“In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, “Did he leave a will?” but “Did he leave a diary?””
—Liza Minnelli (b. 1946)
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)