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Old 09-25-2016, 10:24 AM   #24622
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
...Characters can't take a back seat to ideas (no matter how grand) in books I'm going to rave about....
Normally I would agree with that assessment, but my all-time favorite science fiction movie is 2001: A Space Odyssey (yes, I've also read the book, as well as the short story "The Sentinel" By Arthur C, Clarke on which both were base), and that movie had personalities well in the background. The first half hour didn't even have speaking; only pre-humans running around on a pre-historic Earth doing mostly pre-human things. No character in that film was what I consider fully developed, and the focus shifted from one character to another as the story developed, yet because of the grand scope of Clarke's idea, the film was a masterpiece. It was about the idea, not the people. The people came and went only to develop the idea.
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